Dekila Chungyalpa on uniting faith leaders to bolster climate activism
Dekila Chungyalpa heads the Loka Initiative, a project which she co-founded with Buddhist scholar researchers, Dr Richard Davidson and Dr John Dunne of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds. Launched in 2018, the initiative unites religious leaders with environmental experts to bolster climate activism and Dekila also worked at WWF for 13 years. She earned the prestigious Yale McCluskey Award for conservation innovation in 2014. With Dekila, we talked about her roots in the Himalayas, the influence of her mother, a Buddhist nun, reconciling science and faith, how to dismantle climate change denial, and the connections between land, traditional practices, the right to self-determination and gender justice. All the references mentioned in this episode are available here: http://gosimone.org/episode-16-dekila-chungyalpa-on-uniting-faith-leaders-to-bolster-climate-activism/