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Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project: State of the News Media 2014
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Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project: State of the News Media 2014

April 15, 2014 Newsletter

Overview of the Report

In many ways, 2013 and early 2014 brought a level of energy to the news industry not seen for a long time. Even as challenges of the past several years continue and new ones emerge, the activities this year have created a new sense of optimism – or perhaps hope – for the future of American journalism.

Digital players have exploded onto the news scene, bringing technological knowhow and new money and luring top talent. BuzzFeed, once scoffed at for content viewed as “click bait,” now has a news staff of 170, including top names like Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Schoofs, and is the kind of place that ProPublica’s Paul Steiger says he would want to work at if he were young again. Mashable now has a news staff of 70 and enticed former New York Times assistant managing editor Jim Roberts to become its chief content officer. And in January of this year, Ezra Klein left the Washington Post for Vox media, which will become the new home for his explanatory journalism concept. Many of these companies are already successful digital brands – built around an innate understanding of technology – and are using revenues from other parts of the operation to get the news operations off the ground.

Other kinds of new revenue are flowing into news operations as well. A new breed of entrepreneurs – like Jeff Bezos, John Henry and Pierre Omidyar — are investing their own money in the industry, in some cases creating wholly new entities and in others looking to bring new life to long-standing ones. Among their best credentials – beyond deep pockets – is that they are tech industry insiders and news media outsiders.  Philanthropic money has grown as well, in many cases focused on smaller outlets seeking to fill the gap in news coverage left by legacy cutbacks. As recently as March 2014, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation announced a $10 million grant to New York Public Radio to help build its digital capabilities, an expressed need among nonprofits.

The year also brought more evidence than ever that news is a part of the explosion of social media and mobile devices, and in a way that could offer opportunity to reach more people with news than ever before. Half of Facebook users get news there even though they did not go there looking for it. And the Facebook users who get news at the highest rates are 18-to-29-year-olds. The same is true for the growth area of online video. Half of those who watch some kind of online video watch news videos. Again, young people constitute the greatest portion of these viewers.

Accompanying this momentum is the question of what it adds up to within the full scope of news that consumers receive. Here the events of the last year get put in some perspective. Our first-ever accounting found roughly 5,000 full-time professional jobs at nearly 500 digital news outlets, most of which were created in the past half dozen years. But the vast majority of bodies producing original reporting still comes from the newspaper industry. But those newspaper jobs are far from secure. Full-time professional newsroom employment declined another 6.4% in 2012 with more losses expected for 2013. Gannett alone is estimated to have cut 400 newspaper jobs while the Tribune Co.  announced 700 (not all of them in the newsroom).

The new money from philanthropists, venture capitalists and other individuals and non-media businesses, while promising, amounts to only a sliver of the money supporting professional journalism. Traditional advertising from print and television still accounts for more than half of the total revenue supporting news, even though print ad revenues are in rapid decline. While seeing some small gains in new revenue streams like digital subscriptions and conferences, total newspaper advertising revenue in 2012 (the last year that full data are available) was down 52% from 2003. Television ad revenue, while stable for now, faces an uncertain future as video becomes more accessible online. What’s more, most of the new revenue streams driving the momentum are not earned from the news product itself.

There were a number of other events over the last year for which the impact on citizens is mixed or unclear. Local television, which remains the primary place American adults turn to for news, saw its audience increase for the first time in five years. At the same time, though, there were fewer stations producing original news compared with 2012, primarily the result of television acquisitions that left fewer companies in control of more stations.  At this point, fully a quarter of the 952 U.S. television stations that air newscasts do not produce their news programs. Additional stations have sharing arrangements where much of their content is produced outside their own newsroom. The impact on the consumer seems to vary from market to market, with some markets increasing potential reach by airing news on stations that never had it – even if that newscast is the same one that airs on another local station. In other markets the news has contracted, as news organizations have reduced staff or content production for cost efficiency.     

In digital news, the overlap between public relations and news noted in last year’s State of the News Media report became even more pronounced. One of the greatest areas of revenue experimentation now involves website content that is paid for by commercial advertisers – but often written by journalists on staff – and placed on a news publishers’ page in a way that sometimes makes it indistinguishable from a news story. Following the lead of early adapters like The Atlantic and Mashable, native advertising, as it is called by the industry, caught on rapidly in 2013. The New York Times, The Washington Post and most recently The Wall Street Journal have now begun or announced plans to begin devoting staff to this kind of advertising, often as a part of a new “custom content division.”eMarketer predicts that native ads spending will reach $2.85 billion by 2014.

Many of these publishers initially expressed caution over such ads, with Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker even describing it as a “Faustian pact.” In the end, though, many publishers eventually came down with a conclusion similar to Baker’s, who said that he was  “confident that our readers will appreciate what is sponsor-generated content and what is content from our global staff,” according to a statement released by The Journal. That may be the case, and it could also be the case that stories created for and paid for by advertisers do not bother consumers as long as they are a good read. At this point, though, there is little if any public data that speak to consumer response one way or the other.

And despite evidence of news consumption by Facebook users—half of whom report getting news across at least six topic areas—recent Pew Research data finds these consumers to have rather low levels of engagement with news sites. Another question looming over developments in social media is whether the self-selective process combined with algorithmic feeds are narrowing the kinds of information Americans are exposed to.

One of the biggest stories of the year, the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, shined light on yet another area of challenge for journalism in the digital age: easy access to web-based content. It threatens the security of journalists’ communications and their ability to get sources to share information with them, the ultimate impact of which could be the stories that don’t get reported on and delivered to consumers.

A year ago, the State of the News Media report struck a somber note, citing evidence of continued declines in the mainstream media that were impacting both content and audience satisfaction. As indicated above and throughout this report, many of these issues still exist, some have deepened and new ones have emerged. Still, the level of new activity this past year is creating a perception that something important, perhaps even game-changing, is going on. If the developments in 2013 are at this point only a drop in the bucket, it feels like a heavier drop than most. The momentum behind them is real, if the full impact on citizens and our news system remains unclear.

This year’s Annual Report, our 11th edition, set out to examine these shifts—in revenue, in jobs, in technology, in content, in consumer behavior. It is structured a bit differently than in the past – to account for the widening of the industry, the growing influence of technology and new ways of sharing of our data. This year’s report includes four original research reports and two graphical presentations, along with key findings and a searchable database of all the statistics gathered in past years. From these reports, six major trends emerge:

1) Thirty of the largest digital-only news organizations account for about 3,000 jobs and one area of investment is global coverage.  Vice Media has 35 overseas bureaus; The Huffington Post hopes to grow to 15 countries from 11 this year; BuzzFeed hired a foreign editor to oversee its expansion into places like Mumbai, Mexico City, Berlin and Tokyo. The two-year-old business-oriented Quartz has reporters in London, Bangkok and Hong Kong, and its editorial staff speaks 19 languages. This comes amid pullbacks in global coverage form mainstream media. The amount of airtime network evening newscasts devoted to overseas reporting in 2013 was less than half of what it was in the late 1980s. International reporters working for U.S. newspaper have declined 24% from 2003 to 2010. As the new digital native outlets continue to add staff, the country may be seeing the first real build-up of international reporting in decades – save for a few start- ups like Global Post.

2) So far, the impact of new money flowing into the industry may be more about fostering new ways of reporting and reaching audience than about building a new, sustainable revenue structure.  The news industry in the U.S. brings in a little over $60 billion of revenue annually, according to estimates in our report. Advertising, at least for now, accounts for roughly two-thirds of this pie, most of which remains tied to legacy forms. Audience revenue accounts for about a quarter and is growing both in total dollars and in share. But this revenue may also be coming from a smaller—or at least flat—pool of contributors. New kinds of earned revenue streams like event hosting and web consulting account for about 7%, while investment from sources such as venture capital and philanthropy amount to only about 1% of the total.  One part of the equation worth exploring is what kind of savings occurs at digital news startups free of the legacy infrastructure, but taking on the newer costs of technology development and maintenance.

3) Social and mobile developments are doing more than bringing consumers into the process – they are also changing the dynamics of the process itself.New survey data released here find that half (50%) of social network users share or repost news stories, images or videos while nearly as many (46%) discuss news issues or events on social network sites. And with broader mobile adoption, citizens are playing important eyewitness roles around news events such as the Boston bombing and the Ukrainian uprising. Roughly one-in-ten social network users have posted news videos they took themselves, according to the data.  And 11% of all online news consumers have submitted their own content (including videos, photos, articles or opinion pieces) to news websites or blogs. Just as powerful, though, are the shifts in how news functions in these spaces.  On social sites and even many of the new digital-only sites, news is mixed in with all other kinds of content – people bump into it when they are there doing other things. This bumping into means there may be opportunity for news to reach people who might otherwise have missed it, but less of that may be in the hands of news organizations. Only about a third of people who get news on Facebook follow a news organization or individual journalist. Instead, stories get shared from friends in their networks. And few Facebook visitors, according to a separate Pew Research study of traffic to top news sites, end up also coming to a site directly.  For news providers, this means that a single digital strategy – both in terms of capturing audience and building a viable revenue base – will not be enough.

4) New ways of storytelling bring both promise and challenge. One area of expansion in 2013 was online news video. Ad revenue tied to digital videos over all (no firm calculates a figure specifically for news videos) grew 44% from 2012 to 2013 and is expected to continue to increase. For now, though, its scale is still small, accounting for just 10% of all digital ad revenue in the U.S. YouTube alone already accounts for 20% of these revenues and Facebook has now entered the digital video ad market and, based on its rapid growth in display ad revenue, is expected to quickly account for a significant portion of these dollars. In terms of audience appeal, one-third of U.S. adults watch online news videos, but that growth has slowed considerably. After a 27% increase from 2007 to 2009, the next four years saw just 9% growth. Again, large distributors of video content like YouTube and Facebook already account for a hefty portion of video watching on the web.  Nonetheless, some news providers are making significant investments in digital video. The Huffington Post celebrated the one year anniversary of HuffPost Live, Texas Tribune held a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the purchase of equipment to stream live video coverage of the 2014 Texas governor’s race, and the multimedia company Vice in early 2014 launched a new multimedia portal just for news stories.

5) Local television, which reaches about nine in ten U.S. adults, experienced massive change in 2013, change that stayed under the radar of most. Nearly 300 full-power local TV stations changed hands in 2013 at a price of more than $8 billion. The number of stations sold was up 205% over 2012 and the value up 367%, with big owners getting even bigger. If all the pending sales go through, Sinclair Broadcasting alone will own or provide service to 167 stations in 77 markets, reaching almost 40% of the U.S. population. Sinclair’s CEO, David Smith, at the UBS conference in December 2013 expressed an interest in growing even more: “I’d like to have 80% of the country if I could get it. I’d like to have 90%.” Much of what is driving these purchases is the growth in fees that local stations are able to charge cable companies for re-airing their content – known by the industry as retransmissions fees. Both Meredith (which owns 13 stations) and Scripps (which owns 19) said they saw their retransmission revenues roughly triple in the last three years.  In terms of programming, a clear result is more stations in the same market being operated jointly and sharing more content. As of early 2014, joint service agreements exist in almost half of the 210 local TV markets nationwide, up from 55 in 2011. And fewer stations are producing their own newscasts. The ultimate impact on the consumer is complicated to assess, but the economics benefit to the owner is indisputable.

6) Dramatic changes under way in the makeup of the American population will undoubtedly have an impact on news in the U.S, and in one of the fastest growing demographic groups – Hispanics – we are already seeing shifts. The Hispanic population in the U.S. has grown 50% from 2000 to 2012–to 53 million people. Most of that growth has come from births in the U.S. rather than the arrival of new immigrants, reversing a trend from previous decades. As a result, a growing share of the Hispanic population is American-born and a growing number speak English proficiently.  In response to these trends, more general-market media companies—like ABC, NBC, Fox and The Huffington Post—have started Hispanic news operations. Since 2010, six national Hispanic outlets have been launched, all of which are either owned in full or in partnership by a general-market media company. Not all of them have been successes, however.  Earlier this year, NBC Latino—a website-only outlet—closed, after only 16 months, and CNN Latino, which had both a web and on-air presence, was shut down just a year after its launch. At the same time, Fusion, a joint effort by ABC and Univision, initially described the channel as aimed at Hispanic millennials but later switched to aiming it at millennials more broadly—currently the largest and most diverse generational group in the U.S. As demographic shifts within the U.S. continue, so too will their impact on the news ecosystem.

Explore the complete ‘State of the New Media 2014 Report’ here: http://www.journalism.org/packages/state-of-the-news-media-2014/

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Slant | Vernacular
Sarah Carleton
Today You Are a River in My Hands | Once Trees Grew Inside Me
Marianne Peel
Signposts and Hedges | Visiting My Brother’s Nebraska Farmstead On August 30th At Dusk
David Melville
Into the Riptide | The Best We Can Imagine Together
Bethany Lee

Mixed Media

Video
Storm
Thomas Lane
Song
Inhale Exhale
Jahnavi Pandya and Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Realigning withEarth Wisdom 

Introduction

Editorial
Realigning with Earth Wisdom
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Indigenous to Life
Daniel Christian Wahl

Articles

Ecological Civilization
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
David Korten
In Memoriam
The Big Ocean Cantata
Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli
How to Be a Soil Keeper
Kiley Arroyo
Beliefs
To Reason with a Madman
Charles Eisenstein
Unity
How Not to Lose the Elephant for All its Parts
Craig Holdrege
Awareness
Our Animal Bodies and the Unitive State
Susan Aposhyan

Conversations

Worldview
The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Cultural Memory
Trauma and Regeneration
Soul Shivers

Gallery

Consciousness
Emerging Renaissance | The Art and Wisdom of Leigh J McCloskey
Leigh J McCloskey
Archetypes
Hermetic Wisdom and the Attributes of Our Time
Leigh J McCloskey

Essays

Commons
Glacier, Elder, Teacher
Stephanie Krzywonos
Universe Story
The Wonder of It All
Peter Adair
Awe
Practicing the Art of Wonder through Radical Presence
K. Lauren de Boer
Between Prayer Mat and Smoke Hole
Martin Shaw
Childhood
Reconnecting Our Children to Nature
Darcia Narvaez
BLANK
Seeking the Honey of Life
Lory Widmer Hess

Poetry

Slant | Vernacular
Sarah Carleton
Today You Are a River in My Hands | Once Trees Grew Inside Me
Marianne Peel
Signposts and Hedges | Visiting My Brother’s Nebraska Farmstead On August 30th At Dusk
David Melville
Into the Riptide | The Best We Can Imagine Together
Bethany Lee

Mixed Media

Video
Storm
Thomas Lane
Song
Inhale Exhale
Jahnavi Pandya and Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

The Century of Awakening 

Introduction

Editorial
Century of Awakening
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Awakening to Life
Jeremy Lent

Articles

Wholeness
The Ecozoans
Sam Guarnaccia
Faith
Global Challenges Are Directing Us Toward a Unity of Purpose
Kurt Johnson, Elena Mustakova, Robert Atkinson
Practice
Vow of 120,000 Actions
Hunter Liguore
Rebirth
The Descent to Soul
Bill Plotkin
Shift
Gravity and Allurement
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Technology
The Two Faces of Digital Spirituality
Don Iannone
Connection
Sacramental Conversation
Christopher Schaefer
Sacred Feminine
Reclaiming Spiritual Wholeness
Riane Eisler

Conversations

Framing
Can We Measure Culture and Consciousness?
Phil Clothier and Tor Eneroth
Psyche
Dismantling the Patriarchy Within
Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili

Essays

Community
Living Communally
Graham Meltzer
Encounter
Scent
Regina O'Melveny
Religion
Prayers in the Dark
Rebecca Wildbear
Unity
The Unchaining and The Unveiling
Mino Akhtar
Education
Scaffolding for a Thrivable Planet
Annie Spade
Education
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence
Dr Gianni Zappalà
Transformation
The Age of Freedom
Robert Cobbold
Unlearning
The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly
Abbey Joy Cmiel

Mixed Media

Film
Remembering Nature
Ross Harrison
Song
‘Uncomfortable’
Simon Spire
Gallery
Master Sha | Tao Calligraphy
Master Zhi Gang Sha
Readings
Poems for the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson

Poetry

Butterfly Effect
Louise Cary Barden
Topophilia | Thicket
Ann E. Michael
Unexpected Grace | Love Poem with Accolades
Constance Brewer
How Quickly the Light Changes | Before You Set Your Table
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
Credits

Staff and Advisors

The Century of Awakening 

Introduction

Editorial
Century of Awakening
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Awakening to Life
Jeremy Lent

Articles

Wholeness
The Ecozoans
Sam Guarnaccia
Faith
Global Challenges Are Directing Us Toward a Unity of Purpose
Kurt Johnson, Elena Mustakova, Robert Atkinson
Practice
Vow of 120,000 Actions
Hunter Liguore
Rebirth
The Descent to Soul
Bill Plotkin
Shift
Gravity and Allurement
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Technology
The Two Faces of Digital Spirituality
Don Iannone
Connection
Sacramental Conversation
Christopher Schaefer
Sacred Feminine
Reclaiming Spiritual Wholeness
Riane Eisler

Conversations

Framing
Can We Measure Culture and Consciousness?
Phil Clothier and Tor Eneroth
Psyche
Dismantling the Patriarchy Within
Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili

Essays

Community
Living Communally
Graham Meltzer
Encounter
Scent
Regina O'Melveny
Religion
Prayers in the Dark
Rebecca Wildbear
Unity
The Unchaining and The Unveiling
Mino Akhtar
Education
Scaffolding for a Thrivable Planet
Annie Spade
Education
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence
Dr Gianni Zappalà
Transformation
The Age of Freedom
Robert Cobbold
Unlearning
The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly
Abbey Joy Cmiel

Mixed Media

Film
Remembering Nature
Ross Harrison
Song
‘Uncomfortable’
Simon Spire
Gallery
Master Sha | Tao Calligraphy
Master Zhi Gang Sha
Readings
Poems for the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson

Poetry

Butterfly Effect
Louise Cary Barden
Topophilia | Thicket
Ann E. Michael
Unexpected Grace | Love Poem with Accolades
Constance Brewer
How Quickly the Light Changes | Before You Set Your Table
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Visionary Spirit Transition and Transformation

Introduction

Editorial
The Role of the Visionary
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Unlocking a Fresh Vision for the World
Thomas Hübl

Articles

Ritual
Rough Initiations
Francis Weller
Rebirth
Dying Into the Creative
Paul Levy
Values
A Global Governance Paradigm Shift | First Principles First
Joni Carley
Learning
What Is Global Education and Why Does It Matter?  
Fernando M. Reimers
Transforming
Vision and Change | Fermentation as Metaphor
Sandor Ellix Katz
Esoteric
Thoughtforms | The materialization of sustained ideas
Pamela Boyce Simms
Subtle Realms
Across the Creek
Helen Russ
Memory
Looking Back | The Visionary Spirit of Resilience
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD

Conversations

Culture
Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller
Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha
Transformation
Choosing Earth | with Duane and Coleen Elgin
Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin

Galleries

Improvisation
Reilly Dow | Art of the Scribe
Reilly Dow
Unity
New Visions Give Hope in Dire Times
Nancy Earle

Media

Songs
David Berkeley | Oh Quiet World
Kari Auerbach
Short Film
“Dear Darkening Ground”
Daniel Christian Wahl

Essays

Living Earth
Death and Rebirth
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Commons
Headwater
Jack Slocomb
Evolution
It Couldn’t Be Clearer
Betsey Crawford
Localization
Birdsong as a Compass
Henry Coleman
From a Kosmos Reader
The Power of Pausing
Don Salmon
From a Kosmos Reader
We Are All Radical
Shannon M. Wills
Black Lives Matter
Dismantling Solid Bricks
Jerrice Baptiste
Archetypes
Cinderella Story
Mike Steward

Poetry

Kitchened | Postcard from the Mother Ghost
Annette Sisson
Ocean Breeze
Mike Steward
A Poem for My Students
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Into the Morphic | Reality Ritual
Climbing Sun
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Visionary Spirit Transition and Transformation

Introduction

Editorial
The Role of the Visionary
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Unlocking a Fresh Vision for the World
Thomas Hübl

Articles

Ritual
Rough Initiations
Francis Weller
Rebirth
Dying Into the Creative
Paul Levy
Values
A Global Governance Paradigm Shift | First Principles First
Joni Carley
Learning
What Is Global Education and Why Does It Matter?  
Fernando M. Reimers
Transforming
Vision and Change | Fermentation as Metaphor
Sandor Ellix Katz
Esoteric
Thoughtforms | The materialization of sustained ideas
Pamela Boyce Simms
Subtle Realms
Across the Creek
Helen Russ
Memory
Looking Back | The Visionary Spirit of Resilience
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD

Conversations

Culture
Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller
Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha
Transformation
Choosing Earth | with Duane and Coleen Elgin
Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin

Galleries

Improvisation
Reilly Dow | Art of the Scribe
Reilly Dow
Unity
New Visions Give Hope in Dire Times
Nancy Earle

Media

Songs
David Berkeley | Oh Quiet World
Kari Auerbach
Short Film
“Dear Darkening Ground”
Daniel Christian Wahl

Essays

Living Earth
Death and Rebirth
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Commons
Headwater
Jack Slocomb
Evolution
It Couldn’t Be Clearer
Betsey Crawford
Localization
Birdsong as a Compass
Henry Coleman
From a Kosmos Reader
The Power of Pausing
Don Salmon
From a Kosmos Reader
We Are All Radical
Shannon M. Wills
Black Lives Matter
Dismantling Solid Bricks
Jerrice Baptiste
Archetypes
Cinderella Story
Mike Steward

Poetry

Kitchened | Postcard from the Mother Ghost
Annette Sisson
Ocean Breeze
Mike Steward
A Poem for My Students
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Into the Morphic | Reality Ritual
Climbing Sun
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Rapids of Change Our Collective Journey

Introduction

Editorial
Our Collective Journey
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
What is Solidarity?
Alnoor Ladha

Articles

Activism
The Tree Saviors of Chipko Andolan | A Woman-led Movement in India
Vandana Shiva
Living Earth
Salmon Migration as Earth Expression
David Abram
Resilience
Making the Case for a Small Farm Future
Chris Smaje
Sacred Space
What Would Hagia Sophia Say?
Marian Brehmer
New Cosmology
An Evolutionary Transition Is Coming—Are You Ready?
Robert Cobbold
#CuraDaTerra
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Wellness
Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Staci K. Haines
Archetypes
Recovering the Divine Feminine
Anne Baring

Conversations

#Curadaterra
Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing
Charles Eisenstein and Alnoor Ladha
Biology
Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement?
Elisabet Sahtouris and Jim Garrison

Galleries

Mind
CRAZYWISE | Shamanic Mysticism and Mental Wellness
Phil Borges
Biodiversity
Venerating the Sacred | Art as Cultural Therapy
Angela Manno

Essays

UN2020
We The “Peoples” | The UN at 75
Daniel Perell
UN2020
The Sustainable Development Goals Begin with Mindset
Jürgen Nagler
#Curadaterra
Decolonization Matters
Yogi Hale Hendlin
#CuraDaTerra
Five Centuries of Self-Quarantine
Michael Gray
Emergence
Living Radical Impermanence
Gary Horvitz
Consciousness
Turning Our Crises Around from the Inside Out
Kavita Byrd
from a Kosmos Reader
A Universal Congress
Bruce Schuman
from a Kosmos Reader
Horizontal Governance
Tom Osher

Poetry

Mercy
Okeke Onyedika
#Curadaterra
Epiphany | In the Know | Mapping
Colin Greer
#CuraDaTerra
Power Colours Memories Identity Fighting
Célia Xakriabá
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Rapids of Change Our Collective Journey

Introduction

Editorial
Our Collective Journey
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
What is Solidarity?
Alnoor Ladha

Articles

Activism
The Tree Saviors of Chipko Andolan | A Woman-led Movement in India
Vandana Shiva
Living Earth
Salmon Migration as Earth Expression
David Abram
Resilience
Making the Case for a Small Farm Future
Chris Smaje
Sacred Space
What Would Hagia Sophia Say?
Marian Brehmer
New Cosmology
An Evolutionary Transition Is Coming—Are You Ready?
Robert Cobbold
#CuraDaTerra
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Wellness
Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Staci K. Haines
Archetypes
Recovering the Divine Feminine
Anne Baring

Conversations

#Curadaterra
Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing
Charles Eisenstein and Alnoor Ladha
Biology
Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement?
Elisabet Sahtouris and Jim Garrison

Galleries

Mind
CRAZYWISE | Shamanic Mysticism and Mental Wellness
Phil Borges
Biodiversity
Venerating the Sacred | Art as Cultural Therapy
Angela Manno

Essays

UN2020
We The “Peoples” | The UN at 75
Daniel Perell
UN2020
The Sustainable Development Goals Begin with Mindset
Jürgen Nagler
#Curadaterra
Decolonization Matters
Yogi Hale Hendlin
#CuraDaTerra
Five Centuries of Self-Quarantine
Michael Gray
Emergence
Living Radical Impermanence
Gary Horvitz
Consciousness
Turning Our Crises Around from the Inside Out
Kavita Byrd
from a Kosmos Reader
A Universal Congress
Bruce Schuman
from a Kosmos Reader
Horizontal Governance
Tom Osher

Poetry

Mercy
Okeke Onyedika
#Curadaterra
Epiphany | In the Know | Mapping
Colin Greer
#CuraDaTerra
Power Colours Memories Identity Fighting
Célia Xakriabá
Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Commons
The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons
David Bollier
Investment
Soil Wealth and a Regenerative Green New Deal
Ronnie Cummins
Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
activism
How We Win | Divestment and Nonviolent Direct Action
George Lakey
Economy
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
Hazel Henderson
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Civilization
Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration
Jeremy Lent
Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Bioregions
Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community
Malinda Clatterbuck
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Two Poems by Joy McDowell
Joy McDowell
Two Poems by Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig
Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

Podcasts
greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring
Julian Guderley
New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

In the Labyrinth Pathways to Healing

Introduction

Editorial
Walking the Labyrinth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Habitat
Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors
Teresa Coady
Communication
Civility and its Discontents
Erica Etelson
Social Justice
Freedom and Energy from Healing White Racism
John Bell
Nature
Howling in Place
Amy Logan
Economy
Wall Street to Main Street to World Street
Lilia C. Clemente
Quantum
The Science of Oneness
Loren Swift
Mind
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
Paul Levy
Leadership
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Joshua Spodek

Conversations

Trust
Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan
Julian Guderley
Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton and Daniel Christian Wahl

Galleries

Beauty
Gazing Into the Heart of Perfection
Harold Feinstein
Homelessness
Shelterless in the Time of COVID-19
Keith Smith

Poetry

Taking Turns
Ann Farley
Weeding the Labyrinth
Margaret Chula
In the Garden
Michele Belluomini
WYSIWYG
Catriona McAlister

Essays

Freedom
Biracial Identity | Seeking to Be Unconditioned
Renée Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg
Vitality
A Letter to Herman Creek Canyon
Ruth Lizotte
Indigenous
Becoming Medicine
David R. Kopacz, MD and Joseph E. Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Youth Voices
Mind Matters Most
Tara Pinheiro Gibsone
READER's Essay
The Vitality of Paradox
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD
Reader's Essay
Ordinary Grace
O. Fred Donaldson
Leadership
Leading In Unknown Terrain
Audrey Eger Thompson and Jakob van Wielink
A Memory
Wisdom from the Flood
Alain Ruche
Credits

Staff and Advisors

In the Labyrinth Pathways to Healing

Introduction

Editorial
Walking the Labyrinth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Habitat
Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors
Teresa Coady
Communication
Civility and its Discontents
Erica Etelson
Social Justice
Freedom and Energy from Healing White Racism
John Bell
Nature
Howling in Place
Amy Logan
Economy
Wall Street to Main Street to World Street
Lilia C. Clemente
Quantum
The Science of Oneness
Loren Swift
Mind
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
Paul Levy
Leadership
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Joshua Spodek

Conversations

Trust
Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan
Julian Guderley
Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton and Daniel Christian Wahl

Galleries

Beauty
Gazing Into the Heart of Perfection
Harold Feinstein
Homelessness
Shelterless in the Time of COVID-19
Keith Smith

Poetry

Taking Turns
Ann Farley
Weeding the Labyrinth
Margaret Chula
In the Garden
Michele Belluomini
WYSIWYG
Catriona McAlister

Essays

Freedom
Biracial Identity | Seeking to Be Unconditioned
Renée Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg
Vitality
A Letter to Herman Creek Canyon
Ruth Lizotte
Indigenous
Becoming Medicine
David R. Kopacz, MD and Joseph E. Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Youth Voices
Mind Matters Most
Tara Pinheiro Gibsone
READER's Essay
The Vitality of Paradox
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD
Reader's Essay
Ordinary Grace
O. Fred Donaldson
Leadership
Leading In Unknown Terrain
Audrey Eger Thompson and Jakob van Wielink
A Memory
Wisdom from the Flood
Alain Ruche
Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Commons
The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons
David Bollier
Investment
Soil Wealth and a Regenerative Green New Deal
Ronnie Cummins
Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
activism
How We Win | Divestment and Nonviolent Direct Action
George Lakey
Economy
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
Hazel Henderson
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Civilization
Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration
Jeremy Lent
Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Bioregions
Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community
Malinda Clatterbuck
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Two Poems by Joy McDowell
Joy McDowell
Two Poems by Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig
Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

Podcasts
greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring
Julian Guderley
New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia
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Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Galleries

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Galleries

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Beyond ‘Sacred Activism’
Gary Horvitz

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
The Simulacrum
The Sun of Darkness
Daniel Pinchbeck
RECONCILIATION
White Men and Native America
Lev Natan

Galleries

Culture
Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
Expression
Kathy Thaden | An Inner Fire
Kathy Thaden

Music

Soundscape
Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times
Kari Auerbach
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
Kari Auerbach

Conversations

Group Work
Holacracy | an Emergent Order System
Brian Robertson
Mind
The Practice of Liminal Dreaming
Jennifer Dumpert

Poetry

God Becomes a Hairdresser
Penelope Scambly Schott
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
Oneness
Including the Earth in Our Prayers
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Radical Hope
The Paradox of Wise Activism
Jennifer Browdy
Openness
Living In Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
From a Kosmos Reader
Fluency in the Language of Stillness
Diana Turner-Forte
From a Kosmos Reader
Values as a Means to Invite Greater Depth
Christine Locher
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Beyond ‘Sacred Activism’
Gary Horvitz

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
The Simulacrum
The Sun of Darkness
Daniel Pinchbeck
RECONCILIATION
White Men and Native America
Lev Natan

Galleries

Culture
Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
Expression
Kathy Thaden | An Inner Fire
Kathy Thaden

Music

Soundscape
Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times
Kari Auerbach
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
Kari Auerbach

Conversations

Group Work
Holacracy | an Emergent Order System
Brian Robertson
Mind
The Practice of Liminal Dreaming
Jennifer Dumpert

Poetry

God Becomes a Hairdresser
Penelope Scambly Schott
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
Oneness
Including the Earth in Our Prayers
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Radical Hope
The Paradox of Wise Activism
Jennifer Browdy
Openness
Living In Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
From a Kosmos Reader
Fluency in the Language of Stillness
Diana Turner-Forte
From a Kosmos Reader
Values as a Means to Invite Greater Depth
Christine Locher
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Fall 2018 All Consuming!

Editorial

The Four Nutriments
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Keynote
un-pick-apart-able
Nora Bateson
Living Earth
Tending the Wild
Charles Eisenstein
Governance
Making Politics Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Media Literacy
From the Unreal to the Real
World Goodwill
Theology
The Problem with “More”
Mark Longhurst
Worldview
The Galileo Project
David Lorimer
Interbeing
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
Joyfulness
Do We Really Want to Be Happy?
Pamela Boyce Simms

Conversations

Consciousness
The Deschooling Dialogues | Plant Medicine and the Coming Transition
Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian
Archetypes
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson
Activism
Water and the Rising Feminine 
Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa, Eve Miari
Case Study
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Victoria Price

Essays

Oneness
Unity and the Power of Love
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nonduality
Between the Inner and Outer Worlds
Michael Gray
Travels
Wind | A Letter to My Daughters
Theodore Richards
Higher Power
Healing the Hunger
Lyla June
Book
The Selling of the Soul
Rick Haltermann
Book
Nourishment
Fred Provenza
Reader's Essay
Are We Addicted to Fear?
Victoria Hanchin
Reader's Essay
What the Wind Taught
JoAnne O'Brien-Levin

Galleries

Waste and Beauty
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Forests
Green Medicine
Michael O’Brien

Poetry

Three Poems
Annie Lighthart
Three Poems
John E. Vérin
The Fairy Begs for Bacon
Becca Menon
finals time
Climbing Sun
How Love Builds a Home
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
May Everything Flower
Liliana Torpey

Music

Art Activism
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Kari Auerbach
Meditation
Consumption As The Path
Jeff Finlin

In Brief

Essential Reading
Books in Brief
David Lorimer
Anthropocene
Climate News
Victoria Price
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Fall 2018 All Consuming!

Editorial

The Four Nutriments
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Keynote
un-pick-apart-able
Nora Bateson
Living Earth
Tending the Wild
Charles Eisenstein
Governance
Making Politics Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Media Literacy
From the Unreal to the Real
World Goodwill
Theology
The Problem with “More”
Mark Longhurst
Worldview
The Galileo Project
David Lorimer
Interbeing
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
Joyfulness
Do We Really Want to Be Happy?
Pamela Boyce Simms

Conversations

Consciousness
The Deschooling Dialogues | Plant Medicine and the Coming Transition
Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian
Archetypes
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson
Activism
Water and the Rising Feminine 
Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa, Eve Miari
Case Study
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Victoria Price

Essays

Oneness
Unity and the Power of Love
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nonduality
Between the Inner and Outer Worlds
Michael Gray
Travels
Wind | A Letter to My Daughters
Theodore Richards
Higher Power
Healing the Hunger
Lyla June
Book
The Selling of the Soul
Rick Haltermann
Book
Nourishment
Fred Provenza
Reader's Essay
Are We Addicted to Fear?
Victoria Hanchin
Reader's Essay
What the Wind Taught
JoAnne O'Brien-Levin

Galleries

Waste and Beauty
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Forests
Green Medicine
Michael O’Brien

Poetry

Three Poems
Annie Lighthart
Three Poems
John E. Vérin
The Fairy Begs for Bacon
Becca Menon
finals time
Climbing Sun
How Love Builds a Home
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
May Everything Flower
Liliana Torpey

Music

Art Activism
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Kari Auerbach
Meditation
Consumption As The Path
Jeff Finlin

In Brief

Essential Reading
Books in Brief
David Lorimer
Anthropocene
Climate News
Victoria Price
Credits

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS Summer Quarterly, 2018

Unlearning Together

Editorial

Unlearning Together
Awake, Awakened, Woke!
By Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Transformation
Unlearning Together
By Martin Winiecki
Social Justice
Change the Worldview, Change the World
By Drew Dellinger
Authenticity
Presence at the Edge of Our Practice
By Helen Titchen Beeth
Sociocracy
Dynamic Governance
By Pamela Boyce Simms
Spiritual Origins
Roots and Evolution of Mindfulness
By Joel and Michelle Levey
First People
Indigenous Worldview Is a Source We Now Urgently Need
By Eva Willmann de Donlea
Life Cycle
The Wanderer’s Preparation in the Death Lodge
By Bill Plotkin

Conversations

Sacred Activism
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian
Consciousness
Social Breakdown and Initiation
By Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop
Book Discussion
Forgive: The new practice and mantra for Black Men
By Ulysses 'Butch' Slaughter and Tamara S. Hamilton

Essays

Healing
The Migrant Quilt
By Valarie Lee James
Encountering
The Connection
By Jerrice Baptiste
Encountering
Resilience
By Nathalie Legros
Healing
Healing Into Consciousness
By Mada Dalian
Unlearning
Wealth and Abundance
By Nadia Colburn
Unlearning
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
By Lauri Ann Lumby
Unlearning
The Habits of Schooling
By Marie Goodwin
Encountering
An Uncommon Song
By Joe Brodnik
Healing
Purposeful Memoir as a Path to Alignment
By Jennifer Browdy

Poetry

Two Poems
By Anne Haven McDonnell
Being Human
By Climbing PoeTree
Three Poems
By Carolyn Martin
Falling
By Larry Robinson
Glide
By Andrea Hollander
The Night I Didn’t Stand Up
By Tricia Knoll

Galleries

absence presence
By Barbara Schaefer
Identity
Humanæ
By Angélica​ ​Dass

Mixed Media

Global Music
Sapient
By Steven Chesne
Meditation
Vessels
By Colors in Motion

Music

World Music
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
By Kari Auerbach
Credits

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS Summer Quarterly, 2018

Unlearning Together

Editorial

Unlearning Together
Awake, Awakened, Woke!
By Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Transformation
Unlearning Together
By Martin Winiecki
Social Justice
Change the Worldview, Change the World
By Drew Dellinger
Authenticity
Presence at the Edge of Our Practice
By Helen Titchen Beeth
Sociocracy
Dynamic Governance
By Pamela Boyce Simms
Spiritual Origins
Roots and Evolution of Mindfulness
By Joel and Michelle Levey
First People
Indigenous Worldview Is a Source We Now Urgently Need
By Eva Willmann de Donlea
Life Cycle
The Wanderer’s Preparation in the Death Lodge
By Bill Plotkin

Conversations

Sacred Activism
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian
Consciousness
Social Breakdown and Initiation
By Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop
Book Discussion
Forgive: The new practice and mantra for Black Men
By Ulysses 'Butch' Slaughter and Tamara S. Hamilton

Essays

Healing
The Migrant Quilt
By Valarie Lee James
Encountering
The Connection
By Jerrice Baptiste
Encountering
Resilience
By Nathalie Legros
Healing
Healing Into Consciousness
By Mada Dalian
Unlearning
Wealth and Abundance
By Nadia Colburn
Unlearning
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
By Lauri Ann Lumby
Unlearning
The Habits of Schooling
By Marie Goodwin
Encountering
An Uncommon Song
By Joe Brodnik
Healing
Purposeful Memoir as a Path to Alignment
By Jennifer Browdy

Poetry

Two Poems
By Anne Haven McDonnell
Being Human
By Climbing PoeTree
Three Poems
By Carolyn Martin
Falling
By Larry Robinson
Glide
By Andrea Hollander
The Night I Didn’t Stand Up
By Tricia Knoll

Galleries

absence presence
By Barbara Schaefer
Identity
Humanæ
By Angélica​ ​Dass

Mixed Media

Global Music
Sapient
By Steven Chesne
Meditation
Vessels
By Colors in Motion

Music

World Music
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
By Kari Auerbach