One City

A Declaration of Interdependence

A 21st Century Book on Buddhism, Life, and Our Completely Interconnected World

What you wear. What you say. What you think/ignore/buy/don’t buy… Welcome to One City-Population: Everyone-where EVERYTHING you do matters. You’ve lived here your whole life, whether you know it or not.

Ethan Nichtern, the charismatic and creative force behind New York’s upstart Interdependence Project is your guide to the beauty that is everywhere in the urban jungle-in the rattling of subway trains, the screechings of traffic, the hum and drone of millions scurrying for work, food, sustenance, art, culture, and meaning. There may be no greater setting for exploring the great truth that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expounded: “Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.”

One City melds Dr. King’s message with modern Buddhist wisdom to offer a new way of understanding what binds us all together-no matter where we are, no matter who. With its pop-culture savvy, humor, and literary liveliness, One City will speak to–and even, it’s fair to say, help define–the spiritually-inclined, conscious Next Generation.

Praise for One City

“One City is destined to be a modern spiritual classic. Ethan has a powerful voice and is at the forefront of the new generation of spiritual revolutionaries.”

— Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against the Stream

“One City is a user-friendly guide to living a more meaningful life: one that honors our gifts and recognizes the ways in which we are inextricably connected. With each page, Ethan Nichtern unpacks the tenets of Buddhism and reminds us of our true, dazzling purpose. I will come back to these words again and again.”

— Simran Sethi, NBC News Environmental Correspondent

”One City comes to us as a trenchant and engaging call to an expanded awareness. Ethan Nichtern’s voice is fresh and compelling: Buddhism 3.0 meets the global consciousness movement.”