The New Story Summit: Voices of Youth
Elder, Gigi Coyle, along with Findhorn community child, Aayana Ito, blow out the Summit candle with a blessing for the children.
Kosmos: When you were sharing with the group, you said, “I grew up too fast and didn’t know who I was. The drum changed my life.” Will you share that story?
Nick Joyce: Absolutely. I was raised cross-culturally, without religious dogma, with a lot of independence…
From Punitive to Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is nothing new—global indigenous peoples and those in peripheral societies have practiced it for ages. It is critical to understand the essence of restorative justice as an opportunity for all involved, not as a forced system or means to an end. Understanding this also points to the fact that restorative processes and systems bring an equanimity and power back to the people,…
Kosmos’ Dot Maver Joins Hands with Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Bill McKibben, Others for Global Unity
Kosmos Project Director, Dot Maver, is an educator and lifelong peacebuilder. She is Founding Trustee of the National Peace Academy USA and founder and board member of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace and the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Her work in education, politics and grassroots community organizing is focused on applied peacebuilding utilizing a…
People’s Climate March in New York City
by Eddie Bautista, for Earth Island Journal
Social justice doesn’t often result from spontaneous demonstrations or an impulsive rush to the streets. It comes from long-term investments in organizing, community building, and grassroots campaigns. Activism requires a lot more meetings than marches.
But now and then, it’s the right time for a march. And on the issue of climate justice, we’ve…
Children Should Be at the Heart of Future Cities
By Duncan Jefferies
“Get these cars out of the way, we want to play!” a child chants through a loudhailer, as he and his young comrades march down a street in the Pijp area of Amsterdam. This remarkable scene comes from a 1972 documentary, which follows a group of inner-city Dutch children as they attempt to turn a busy through-road outside their homes into a play street. Adults in the area are…
Exodus Series of Paintings
The Exodus series paintings are concerned with the experience of higher awareness and spiritual revelation that results from the movement of peoples throughout the world. In these powerful paintings we see groups of seemingly displaced and anonymous peoples moving though landscapes that are hauntingly familiar and yet foreign at the same time. The landscapes seem to be moving and changing along…
A Grand Strategy for Evolving a New World
Humanity has entered the most extraordinary transition in the evolution of our species. The outcome will be a new human—a new version of the species, genetically and in terms of capabilities.
This is not the first time that fundamental change has catapulted life into a dramatically different space. In fact, this shift, although the largest and fastest of all shifts (as far as we know), is…
gallery two | Exodus Series of Paintings
By Maria Lago
The Exodus series paintings are concerned with the experience of higher awareness and spiritual revelation that results from the movement of peoples throughout the world. In these powerful paintings we see groups of seemingly displaced and anonymous peoples moving though landscapes that are hauntingly familiar and yet foreign at the same time. The landscapes seem to be moving and changing along…
Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age: From ‘Economism’ to Earth Systems Science
Review by Monica Sharma
Hazel Henderson takes us on a journey through time—future, present and past—and weaves new pathways to one of our next milestones in human civilization: the Solar Age. Based on current scientific knowledge and irrefutable facts from the domains of finance and economics, these innovative, transdisciplinary pathways connect strategic action to the conscious human and…
Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project: State of the News Media 2014
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…