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Wilma, a young Tree Bank colleague. (Dominican Republic)
Planting along Thompson Creek. (Virginia)
Restored habitat at our Native Arboretum project. (Virginia)
Weeding at our Native Arboretum. (Virginia)
Building a stormwater checkdam at Meadowood. (Virginia)
Creating the River of Grass at Meadowood. (Virginia)
Gaspar gets a camera for the field. (Dominican Republic)
A two-year-old Hispaniolan pine planting. (Dominican Republic)
A trophy-size invasive alien honeysuckle! (Virginia)
JCPenny volunteers plant a riparian zone. (Virginia)
An impromptu garden. (Virginia)
Cosme in his riparian restoration zone. (Dominican Republic)
Nikki pots “fernlets” at our greenhouse. (Virginia)
Volunteers at our Wild Plant Nursery. (Virginia)
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We have added a page on our work with the BLM at the Meadowood Recreation Area in Fairfax County, Virginia. Meadowood is now listed under "DC Area" in the navigation bar at the top of our pages. (Posted on July 1.)
The Sangha has been selected for the 2009-10 Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington. Read the announcement on the News page. (Posted on June 5.)
Our Wild Plant Nursery page has been revised and updated. Additions include a slide show retrospective for 2008, our policy on distributing plants to home gardeners, and a revised species list. (Posted on May 9.)
Our 2008 financial report is now available on the Library page. See "Administrative Resources," at the bottom of the page. (Posted on May 7.)
Read our most recent newsletter. (Posted on April 20.)
An Updates section has been added to the Tree Bank Mission page. (Posted on April 1.)
Peace within Our Lives,
Conservation of the Wild,
Restoration of Our Lands.
The Earth Sangha is a nonprofit charity based in the Washington, DC, area and devoted to ecological restoration. We work in the spirit of Buddhist practice, but our members and volunteers come from a wide variety of religious and secular backgrounds.
In the Washington area, we operate an ecological restoration program to restore native forests and meadows, stabilize streams, and control invasive alien plants.
On the island of Hispaniola, along the Dominican Republic – Haiti border, we operate the Tree Bank, which helps impoverished farmers improve their incomes and restore forest.
In addition to our environmental work, we host regular meditation sessions in the Washington area, along with discussions of the Dharma (the traditional Buddhist teachings). These sessions are free and open to all.
Please join us! You can volunteer with us, meditate, or make a donation. If you have questions or comments about our work, please contact us.
Ways Into Our Work and Practice
To learn more about the Earth Sangha's mission and how we are organized, look through the About Us page.
If you are interested in the plight of tropical forests, take a look at our Tree Bank / Hispaniola Mission page.
To get a sense for our restoration activities in the Washington, DC, region, read any of our DC-area field site pages, such as that for the Native Arboretum. You might also like to look at our Wild Plant Nursery page, since the nursery is the heart of our DC-area field work.
If you live in the Washington area and would like to participate in our field work, check out our Volunteer and Field Schedule pages.
If you would like to meditate with us, read the Meditation page.
To find out about our recent activities, check our News page, or join the Earth Sangha group on Face Book.
About This Site
This web site is best viewed with the Firefox, Chrome, or Safari web browsers. It will also work with current versions of Internet Explorer. (It will not display properly with Internet Explorer version 6 or earlier.) Comments on the site may be sent to info@earthsangha.org.
The current banner photo (the photo above the menu bar) was taken in an oak–beech forest along the Occoquan River in northern Virginia. To see the entire photo, click here.
