Interviews, presentations & videos
Selected list of interviews, podcasts, articles and videos of our guiding teacher (Kritee Kanko). For accessing audio files or transcripts of her dharma talks (Teishoes) given during Zen retreats, please check our podcast and this page.
| Year | Title | Source/Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Gaza: Calling for a Dharma Response | Sacred Mountain Sangha(Link) |
| 2024 | Nature, Meditation, Justice: Find Your Path with Ecodharma Retreats | Denver Post (link) |
| 2024 | UCSF Climate Resilience Course | University of California San Fransisco (Link) |
| 2024 | Climate Grief, Communal Power: Reflection by Kanko | Tricycle (Link) |
| 2024 | Opening the Heart-Mind during Ecodharma Grief-rage ceremonies | Tricycle (Link) |
| 2023 | How Buddhism can inform climate activism: a conversation with Kritee Kanko | Yale Climate Connections (link) |
| 2023 | Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences: Guest Talk | Stanford University |
| 2023 | The mutuality of contemplative practice and environmental action: A two-part discussion with Kaira Jewel Lingo | The Inner Nature podcast (link) |
| 2023 | A Future You Can Love book launch panel | Mind and Life (link) |
| 2023 | Summer Research Institute (Contemplative retreat) talk | Mind and Life (link) |
| 2022 | What Could Possibly Go Right? Interview by Vicki Robin | Post Carbon Institute/Resilience (Video and Podcast link) |
| 2022 | A Zen priest–scientist takes on climate anxiety (and human trauma) | Harvard Public Health Magazine (link) |
| 2022 | Sacred action: Who are we called to be in the face of our personal, societal & climate traumas? Talk for O Lugar (Brazil) | PPT in Portugese & Youtube clip |
| 2022 | How To Cope with All the Climate Feels (includes Kritee's interview) | A Matter of degrees podcast (Podcast link, Transcript) |
| 2022 | Last Earth Day, Wynn Bruce Set Himself on Fire Outside the Supreme Court. I Tried to Understand Why | Inside Climate News link |
| 2022 | What Wynn Bruce teaches us about climate grief? | El Tecolote (Article, Podcast 1 & 2) |
| 2022 | Climate grief and making sense out of Wynn Bruce’s Supreme Court climate action | Colorado Sun Opinion (link) |
| 2022 | Taking a Collective Breath: a Dharma-sharing space in remembrance of Wynn Bruce with Aaron Solomon, Kritee Kanko, Erica Hamilton, Brother Pháp Dung, and Sister True Vow | Earth Holder Community (Video) |
| 2022 | Zen Priest and Climate Scientist Tackles Climate Grief | KGNU Radio interview |
| 2021 | Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It (includes Kritee's interview) | NY Times |
| 2021 | Mental-health professionals are trying to figure out how to talk about the climate | The Cut (New York Mag) |
| 2021 | Ecodharma pods: Dharma of Resistance's integral approach | Boundless in Motion (Link) |
| 2021 | Dharma and Justice Dialogues: Just Relationship with the Earth | Union Theological Seminary (Youtube video) |
| 2021 | Climate Anxiety and How It Can Lead to Hopefulness (includes Kritee's Interview) | KQED California public radio |
| 2021 | Mental health needs to evolve for climate change, experts say | Washington Post (link) |
| 2021 | Eco-Anxiety Over Climate Change Is A Growing Problem, But Help Is Out There (Kritee's interview) | Cincinnati Pubic Radio |
| 2021 | Dharma talk at Upaya Zen Center | Link (Video) |
| 2020 | How Can We Create Islands of Sanity in a Sea of Chaos? Kritee Kanko's interview by Kaira Jewel Lingo | Mindfulness summit, Youtube video |
| 2020 | Hey Climate movement! Deal with trauma | Boundless in Motion (Link) |
| 2020 | Drowned in the deep spring – Dharma talk | San Francisco Zen Center (video) |
| 2020 | Find the wisdom in paradox | Lion's Roar |
| 2020 | Practices for transforming COVID-19 anxiety into a sense of safety and grief-love | Article, Youtube dialog with Dr. Maria Talero |
| 2020 | Climate crisis myths: Science, racism, ethics & action | Zen Buddhists teachers circle (YouTube video, PDF) |
| 2020 | People of color feel climate grief more deeply | Vice.com |
| 2020 | White Supremacy = Mother of climate crisis | Boundless in Motion (O Lugar's Portugese translation) |
| 2020 | Why Bodhisattvas Need to Disrupt the Status Quo | Lion's Roar and Buddhadharma |
| 2020 | Composting the Climate Crisis & Racial Violence Requires Composting Trauma & Grief | Showing up for the planet (Youtube Video, PDF Slides) |
| 2020 | A podcast with Kritee: Interbeing, Zen Buddhism, & the Next Right Thing | No Place Like Home podcast |
| 2019 | Climate science and movement updates | Ecodharma teacher's gathering (PDF) |
| 2019 | Video: Is it too late to "save" the planet | Lion's Roar (Link) |
| 2019 | Climate action & racial healing: Framework of Yet-to-be-named network | Naropa University (PDF Link) |
| 2019 | Climate crisis & role of youth | King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand (Link) |
| 2019 | Short interview of Kritee (Kanko) by Mushim Ikeda on Climate emergency | East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland (Link) |
| 2019 | Buddhism's role in a Just Transition: Comments of systems of oppression | World Council of Churches (Link) |
| 2018 | Global Climate Change Panel: Discussion with Environmental Defense Fund colleagues | EDF Audio |
| 2018 | Spirituality & Science | Environmental Ethics, University of Southern California |
| 2018 | Role of spirituality & community-building: Satyagraha for all life on the planet | Naropa Peace studies |
| 2018 | Indian #Padman & attitudes towards menstruation in the times of #metoo | Medium article |
| 2017 | Kritee :: Being an Indian Woman Priest in the Zen Tradition: Interview by Ted Meissner | Secular Buddhist Association (Podcast & transcript) |
| 2017 | Whiteness and Privilege in Ecodharma: How can we confront them compassionately? | Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center |
| 2017 | Zen koan training: Basics | Boundless in motion |
| 2017 | Climate Despair vs. Action: A False Choice? | Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center |
| 2017 | Way out of our ecological predicament: Reconnecting with Sacred Oneness and its diverse manifestations | UC Denver Symposium: Spirtuality, Sustainablity, Earth Justice |
| 2017 | Selfless self-compassion (with guided loving kindness meditation practice from Kritee Kanko by anonymous) | Conscious Unfolding blog |
| 2016 | One unified movement towards joy, health, kindness and justice: What is our role? | Boundless in Motion |
| 2016 | Secular Activism and the Sacred: a Common Ground | Video: One Earth Sangha |
| 2016 | Island of sanity friendships: How are they different from other friendships? | Boundless in Motion |
| 2016 | Climate Calamity: Psycho-spiritual implications at Interface Boulder | Download powerpoint |
| 2016 | Three pillars of Ecodharma (Sacred activist movement) | Boundless in Motion |
| 2016 | New studies point to a pathway to find India’s most effective climate-smart farming practices | EDF Talks Global Climate |
| 2015 | Interview: This Buddhist Life: Q&A with Kritee by Max Zahn | Tricycle (Link) |
| 2015 | Understanding Climate drivers: International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering | Omega Institute, NY (Download powerpoint) |
| 2015 | Earth’s Climate Circle and the Rising 400 ppm Human Tangent: Can our spiritual paths help us to choose heroic and just transitions over global chaos? | Tikkun Daily |
| 2015 | Climate Takuhatsu (spiritual begging) | Zen peacemakers -Environment |
| 2014 | 'Feeding 9 billion' requires facing up to climate change | EDF Talks Global Climate |
| 2014 | Embody Fierce Compassion: Buddhists at the People's Climate March | Buddhist Peace Fellowship |
| 2014 | EcoScience 101: EcoDharma conference 2014 | Wonderwell Mountain Refuge (Download powerpoint) |
| 2014 | Why do you want to meditate? | Boundless in Motion |
| 2014 | A Primer on the Science of and Policy Response to Climate Change | One Earth Sangha |
| 2013 | How can we grow more rice – with less land, water and pollution? | EDF Voices |
| 2011 | America’s Leading Mercury Scientists Call for Strong Air Pollution Standards | Climate 411 |
