What is Joanna Macy?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> |name =Joanna Rogers Macy |image =Joanna_Macy.jpg |imagesize = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1929|5|2|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = |occupation = Author, Buddhist scholar, environmental activist |nationality = American }} '''Joanna Rogers Macy''' (born May 2, 1929), is an American environmental activist, author, scholar of [[Buddhism]], [[systems theory|general systems theory]], and [[deep ecology]]. She is the author of eight books.<ref name=biose>{{cite web |url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/joanna-macy/Content?oid=2585773 |title=Anti-nuclear activist is 'just a sucker for courage' |author=George Prentice |date=January 18, 2012 |work=Boise Weekly |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815200958/https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/joanna-macy/Content?oid=2585773 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her best known work is ''Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World''. ==Writings== {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf= 103624451 }} * {{cite book|last=Macy|first=Joanna|title=Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age|url=https://archive.org/details/despairpersonalp0000macy|publisher=New Society Pub|year=1983|isbn=0-86571-031-7}} * {{cite book|last=Macy|first=Joanna|title=Dharma and Development: Religion as resource in the Sarvodaya self help movement|url=https://archive.org/details/dharmadevelopmen0000macy|publisher=Kumarian Press revised ed |year=1985|isbn=0-931816-53-X}} * {{cite book|last1=Macy|first1=Joanna|last2=Seed|first2=John|last3=Fleming|first3=Pat|last4=Naess|first4=Arne|last5=Pugh|first5=Dailan|title=Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings|publisher=New Society Publishers|year=1988|isbn=0-86571-133-X}} * {{cite book|last=Macy|first=Joanna|title=Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Syste