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I love my meditation community - I love being together, getting in a little chit-chat, and, of course, the power and camaraderie of meditating as a group. The icing on this cake is that all the money people pay for these meditations gets donated 100% to a climate change organization. So far, we’ve donated $6,928 to 15 different organizations, including the $600 we just sent to the Good Grief Network. A full accounting is below. Thank you to all who donate! ONE SMALL STONE C

Three times a week, a small community gathers together to meditate. These acts of mindfulness help the world. The more we practice seeing clearly during meditation, the more we can move through the world seeing clearly, with wisdom and compassion. Echoing that embodied helpfulness, this community also make a financial contribution to support people and organizations stopping climate change. Community members make donations, ranging from $5 to $20/month. We pool that money t

What can we do to stop climate change? Talk about it.

I got to facilitate (this does circle back to explaining my gratitude for your donations) a Spring Equinox Mini-Retreat this past Sunday with my friend, Kat Palmieri. I usually think of the Spring Equinox as all daffodils, sunshine and rainbows. Yay, Spring!🤸🤸🤸 What was interesting to me in this Spring Equinox celebration was how much I felt the heavy truth of constant change. As in: even a change as welcome as the beginning of Spring, also inherently means that something

One Small Stone is rooted in 3 beliefs: We all make a difference... “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you... You have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall …because we are all interconnected. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Mindfulness is key to making a hea

One Small Stone - this community, YOU - have donated over $4,500 to helping halt climate change and to propelling climate solutions...

Dear community, “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single...

Yesterday was Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people in the United States found out they'd been freed....

I want to share an idea - and get feedback! - for a new meditation opportunity: "Meditation Pals," a little sweet treat for summer. 🍒...

👋 👋 Hi, hi! I'm so appreciative of all of you and I'm so excited to get to start to make more connections. Thanks for being her and...

One Small Stone was founded on the premise that we all matter - both individually and for the impact that we have on the world. The...

I recently learned that 10% of charitable giving happens in the last 3 days of the year (source). I’ll confess that when I heard this, a...

Did you know that the concept of an individual carbon footprint calculator was created by BP? BP saw the stats that most Americans not...

“What can I do to help with climate change?” It’s a wonderfully common question. Maybe you’ve asked it. I know I have. Good news/bad...

Election Day is November 8th. Today is a great day to start making some waves to get out the vote and elect leaders who prioritize our...

The media’s predominant narrative (80%, to be exact) around climate change is doom and gloom. With all the bad news, it’s pretty...

Solutions for climate justice, climate change and eco-anxiety. What should regular people do to help the environment.

It is easy to say “don’t buy stuff.” That's much harder to do in practice when we don’t want to disappoint our loved ones - or ourselves....

It's easy to push a problem as big as climate change to the back of our minds. It's overwhelming and unwieldy. But, as Science Moms say,...

When you switch on your heat this fall, try setting your thermostat 1 or 2 degrees colder than you normally would. Lowering your...