Joanna Macy

Joanna Rogers Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025) was an American environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She was the author of eight books. Her best known work is Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World.

Macy died on July 19, 2025 in Berkeley, California from problems caused by a fall at the age of 96.Ecodharma Leader and Activist Joanna Macy Has Died

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Other websites

 Joanna Macy's website on the work of Experiential Deep Ecology
 Gaia Foundation of Western Australia — an Australian organisation based on the principles of Deep Ecology.
 California Institute of Integral Studies
 Interview with Joanna Macy by John Malkin — published in ascent magazine, summer 2008
 The Healing on Mother Earth Project — a Sebastopol, Ca organisation based on the principles of deep ecology.
 A Wild Love for the World , an interview with Joanna Macy, by Krista Tippet on the American Radio Show "On Being." This page provides links to the original program that first aired in 2010, along with the unedited version of the program. Macy also recites many Rilke poems during the show, but some of these poems are edited out so you can listen to them recited individually.
"Allegiance to Life: Staying steady through the mess we're in," An interview with Joanna Macy from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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