Joanna’s Books

 
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rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet

co-translated & edited with Anita Barrows

Shambhala Publications (2020 - in preparation)


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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

with Molly Young Brown

New Society Publishers (2014)


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Active Hope: How to Face
the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy

with Chris Johnstone

New World Library (2011)


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Pass It On: Five Stories
That Can Change the World

with Norbert Gahbler

Parallax Press (2010)


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A Year With Rilke: Daily Readings
from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

co-translated & edited with Anita Barrows

Harper Collins and Harper One (2009).


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World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal

Parallax Press (2007)


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In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

co-translated & edited with Anita Barrows

Echo Point Books & Media (2005, 2016)


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Widening Circles, a Memoir

New Society Publishers (2000)


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Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

co-translated & edited with Anita Barrows

Riverhead (1996, 2005)


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Mutual Causality in Buddhism
and General Systems Theory

SUNY Press (1991)


World as Lover, World as Self

Parallax Press (1991)


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Thinking Like a Mountain:
Toward a Council of All Beings

with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess

New Society Publishers (1988)


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Dharma and Development:
Religion as Resource in the
Sarvodaya Self-Help Movement

Kumarian Press (1983, 1985)


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Despair and Personal Power
in the Nuclear Age

New Society Publishers (1983)

 
 

Books featuring Joanna or her writings - partial listing

 

Thomas Berry

Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology
of the Father of Environmentalism

Inner Traditions, (2011)


Michel Maxime Egger

Soigner l'esprit, guérir la Terre:
Introduction à l'écopsychologie
(Care for the Spirirt, Heal the Earth)

Labor et Fides, Geneva, Switzerland (2015)


Llewelyn Vaughn Lee

Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

(2016)


Bill Plotkin

Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

2007)


Leslie E. Sponsel

Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution

(2012)


Taigen Dan Leighton

Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and their Modern Expression

(2003)


Anne Bancroft

Women of Wisdom: Women Mystics of the 20th Century

(1998)


Rogers S. Gottlieb, ed.

“Faith, Power & Ecology” in

This Sacred Earth

(1996)


T. Roszak , M. Jones , A. Kanner, eds.

“Working Through Environmental Despair” in

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind

(1995)


Catherine Ingram

In the Footsteps of Gandhi:
Conversations with Spiritual Social Activists

(1990)


Sandy Boucher

Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhihsm

(1988)


Lenore Friedman

Meeting with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America

(1987)

 

Published articles

 

 2014

“Four Steps to a Better World”
consciouslifestylemagazine.com, February – April, 2014

“Expanding Our Sense of Self”
Spirituality and Health. January/February, 2014


2013

“Eins mit dem Gewebe des Lebens: die Tienfenökologin”
Buddhismus Aktuell, October, November, December 2013

“Hearing the Call”
Resurgence & Ecologist. March/April 2013. No. 277

“Living and Leading with Active Hope”
The Occasional Papers of the Leadership Council or Women Religious. Summer 2013


2012

“Allegiance To Life – Staying Steady Through The Mess We’re In”
Tricycle. Summer 2012

“Woman On The Edge Of Time: An Interview With Joanna Macy”
Inquiring Mind. Spring 2012.


2011

“The Way to Make Earth Sustainable with All Beings
– An Interview with Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy”
Buddhism and Culture. Winter 2011

“Soul-Centering Practices for Hard Times”
Radical Grace. Summer 2011, Vol 24, No. 3 


2010

“Interview mit Joanna Macy: den Wandel Miterleben – Auch in der Schule”
umweltbildung.ch. March 2010

“Earth Community: What it Tells us about Faith and Power”
For the Thomas Berry Festschrift


2009

“The Global Crisis and the Arising of the Ecological Self”
Journal of Holistic Health Care. Volume 6 Issue 3, November 2009, pp. 5-10

“Am Tanz des Lebens Teilnehmen”
Buddhismus Aktuell. July, August, September 2009


2008

“The Greatest Danger and the Radical Uncertainty of Our Time”
Yes! Magazine, Issue 45, Spring 2008)


2007

“Feeling the Future.”
The Independent, Santa Barbara, CA. October 25, 2007, p. 97
(Interview with Elizabeth Schwyzer)

Foreward to Karl Linn’s “Building Commons and Community”
New Village Press, 2007


2006

“The Great Turning as Compass and Lens”
Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures. Summer, 2006, pp. 44-46.

“Our Long Journey Together”
Turning Wheel. Fall-Winter 2006, pp. 29-32.
(Interview with Martha Boesing and Susan Moon)


2005

“Interview with Joanna Macy”
Dharma Vision Buddhist Community Newsletter
Australia, Vol 6 No 5, 2005, pp. 3-4; 7


2004

“El Color del Ser”
Translation of the article, “The Greening of the Self” into Spanish
PanNature, The Sangay Foundation, Electronic Archive, June 27, 2004


2003

“Turning the Wheel”
Life Positive Plus, Dehli, India, Oct-Dec 2003, pp. 54-56
(Edited by Swati Chopra)

“Aus der Tiefe.” Portraits of Joanna Macy and Dolores LaChappelle
Natur & Kosmos, July, 2003, pp. 42-43

“The Great Turning”
Hope in a Dark Time: Reflections on Humanity’s Future
(
Edited by David Kreiger, Foreward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu)


2002

“All the Time in the World.”
Earthlight, Winter 2002,  pp. 24-25.

“The Meditation That Can End a War”
Inquiring Mind, Fall, 2002, pp. 20-21, 29.

“Giving Voice to Earth”
Earthlight, Summer 2002, pp. 34-35


2001

“9/11 and the Heart of the World”
EarthLight, Fall, 2001, pp. 16-17

“Mother of All Buddhas”
Inquiring Mind, 2001, pp 28-29

“Doing the Work”
Witness, March 20001, pp 6-8
(Interview with Marianne Arbogast)


2000

“The Wisdom of Uncertainty: Living with the Shambhala Prophecy”
ReVision, Fall 2000, pp. 19-23
(Interview with Mary E. Gomes and Jurgen Kremer)

“Wild Goose”
Orion Magazine, Spring 2000, pp. 12-14

“The Great Turning”
Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Spring 2000, pp. 34-37
(
Interview with Sara Ruth van Gelder)


1999

“Coming Back to Life”
Timeline, September/October 1999, pp. 6-11

“An Interview with Joanna Macy, Environmental Activist,
Educator, Speaker and Bestselling Author”
Share Guide, The Holistic Health Magazine, May/June 1999,
Issue #43, pp 12-13, 26

“The Great Turning”
Sojourn: Awakening Spirit, Culture and Knowledge, Vol. 3, Issue 4,
Spring 1999, pp. 42, 44-46


1998

“The Great Turning”
Wild Duck Review, Vol. IV, No. 1, Winter 1998, p. 14

“Challenge at the Millenium: Waking Up in Indra’s Net”
Shambhala Sun, September 1998, pp. 36-43

“Contemplation and Revolution: an Interview with Joanna Macy”
Turning Wheel, Summer 1998, pp. 21-23


1997

“Zeit der Groben Wende (Time of the Great Turning)”
Connection, Special Issue #34,  III 97, pp. 12-17

“To the Limits of Our Longing”
Permaculture International Journal, Issue No. 63, June-August 1997, pp. 35-38

“Woman on the Brink of Time: Religious Studies and the Global Crisis”
Spring Journal, Starr King School for the Ministry, May 1997, pp. 3-6

“Respect for Sentient Life”
Inquiring Mind, Fall 1997, pp. 9, 36)


1996

“The Feminine Face of the Buddha” Barbara Graham
Common Boundary, March/April 1996, pp. 28-35


1995

“Ecology from the Inside Out”
Kindred Spirit Quarterly, The Guide to Personal and Planetary Healing.  Spring 1995
(Interview with Joanna Macy)

“Interview With Joanna Macy”
Wild Duck Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, November 1995, pp. 1-2

“Wir Mussen Lernen, Den Shit Zu Begreifen, Den Wir Fabriziert Haben”
Raum & Zeit, vol 73, 1995
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Hans Joachim Ehlers and Christopher Baker)

“Credo”
Written for “On Being Human” by Frederick Franck, 1995

“Collective Self-Interest: The Holonic Shift” 
World Business Academy Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1995, pp 19-22

“The Incredible Exploding Self”
Inquiring Mind, Spring 1995, pp. 6, 8, 14
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Wes Nisker and Barbara Gates)

“Eine Stimme der Erde.” Claus Biegert article on work of Joanna Macy
Natur, Vol. 7, 1995


1994

“From Despair to Empowerment”
Resurgence, 1994
(By Anita Barrows)

“Asking to Awaken”
ReVision, Fall 1994, pp 25-33
(Interview by Donald Rothberg)

“Rivers Running Through Our Lives”
Preface to Lifelines, edited by Birgit Engelhardt, 1994


1992

“Deep Ecology or Shallow Environmentalism”
Human Potential, Spring 1992, pp. 10-13, 29-32

“World As Lover, World As Self”
Lotus, Winter 1992, pp. 20-23


1991

“What’s So Good About Feeling Bad?”
NewAge, Spring 1991, pp. 32-37, 91-95

“Guarding The Earth”
Inquiring Mind, Spring 1991, pp. 1, 4-5, 12
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Barbara Gates)

“Guardians of the Future”
In Context, Spring 1991, pp. 20-25
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Alan AtKisson


1989

“Guardians of Gaia”
Yoga Journal, Winter 1989, pp. 53-55

“Breaking The Spell”
In Context, Issue 22, 1989, pp. 20-23



1987

“Embracing The Tiger”
Tai Chi Journal, Fall 1987, p. 3
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Mackenzie Stewart)

“The Eroticism of Deep Ecology”
Creation, May/June 1987, pp. 29-31
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Charlene Spretnak)

“Going Back Into The World”
A Gathering of Spirit, Primary Point Press, 1987, pp. 52-56


1986

“Gaia Meditations – At the Council Of All Beings”
Awakening in the Nuclear Age, Summer/Fall 1986, p.10


1985

“Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age”
Yoga Journal, January/February 1985, pp. 22-29
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Stephan Bodian)


1984

“Notes From an Interview on Womanpower”
Woman of Power, Spring 1984, pp. 10-13
(Interview with Joanna Macy by Bobbi Lev)


1982

“Taking Heart: Spiritual Exercises for Social Activists”
Fellowship, July/August 1982, pp. 3-6

“Interview with Joanna Macy”
AHP Newsletter, July/August 1982, pp. 15-18
(Interview by Liz Campbell)



1979

“How to Deal with Despair”
New Age, June 1979, pp. 40-45

 

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