VIDEO: Nancy Roof : The Movement from ‘I’ to ‘We’

Nancy Roof is Founder of Kosmos Associates and Kosmos Journal. Her comments were recorded at the New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland on October 3, 2014.

“I do think that there are many places on the Earth where people have known inside that this is a major new era we’re moving into, not just a generational change, but a centuries-type change. A major transformation…

“I see the movements for change evolving like a neural net, with each element making more and more connections to others so that eventually it's a highly integrated network with fast communication in all directions.” ~Survey Participant

Kosmos Publishes Original Research Report: ‘Connecting for Change’

By Rhonda Fabian

Almost a year ago, Kosmos embarked on a communication research initiative by generous invitation of the Fenwick Foundation. We were asked to look at the emerging, growing global transformation movement which we at Kosmos feel very much a part of, and explore questions about identity, influence, and connection…

Intellectual Plunder: Seed, Food and Medicine

By Dr. Vandana Shiva

Over the last two decades, patent laws have taken a perverse direction from seemingly protecting novel ideas and products of intellect to being used by major corporations to establish monopolies over necessities like seed, food and medicines. Such monopolies violate Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantees citizens the right to life.

Reader’s Essay: Transition Within

By Gary Thomson

I was fortunate to recently attend an event with two pioneers of the emerging story of humanity, often referred to as The New Story or The Shift. I’ve been following their work for some time and was surprised to leave feeling disappointed. It was not that their words did not resonate with me or that I could no longer see the value of their work, but rather I met with a sense of a more fundamental platform from which to approach the challenges facing humanity…

Members of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)

FILM: Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement

A film by Andreas Hernandez

This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to agroecology. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for farmers, produces high quality and low cost food for the region, and rehabilitates the earth.