GLOBAL CITIZEN | Who cares about global governance?
By Manjana Milkoreit, via Global Challenges Foundation
While people around the world identify in increasing numbers as global citizens, engagement with global governance remains practically non-existent. What could be done so that people care more? A range of structural and cognitive barriers make it difficult to prioritize global challenges, identify their relevance, access…
KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Ma’ikwe Ludwig on Intentional Community
KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change
This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.
Episode 6 – Ma'ikwe Ludwig on Intentional…
Race, Class, Gender and Climate Change: An Excerpt from ‘Together Resilient’ by Ma’ikwe Ludwig
By Ma'ikwe Ludwig, via Fellowship for Intentional Community from her book, Together Resilient | Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption.
Climate change is deeply intertwined with race, class and gender. I’d like to focus on the who of different roles we are all playing in the crisis.
First off, note what countries have historically contributed the largest amount to climate…
YOUTH VOICE | The Mis-Education of Serenity Hughes: A Journey to Self Realization
By Serenity Hughes, via Chicago Wisdom Project
When I stepped foot on Wellesley’s campus, I was overwhelmed by Whiteness. I felt like I was being drowned in a sea full of snow, surrounded by white and overwhelmed with the feeling of coldness. The specks of Black students scattered around campus gave me hope. Although these specks were scarce, seeing students that looked like…
Book Excerpt | The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse
By Theodore Richards, an excerpt from Chapter 3 | Spirituality in the Age of Climate Change from The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse
Visit | http://theodorerichards.com/the-great-reimagining/
Diversity is a word we hear all the time. Generally, in our society, it is considered a “good” thing, perhaps even a “value”, particularly among liberals. But little more is…
Global Ecovillage Network | Sacred Activism
By Kosha Joubert and Leila Dregger, via Global Ecovillage Network
All around the world ecovillages and communities are standing up, as part of a global movement to protect what is sacred to them: family, friends and community, the biodiversity and beauty of nature, the future of generations to come. They stand for social justice, human rights and earth rights. When the Indigenous…
The Global Citizen | Spirituality, Diversity, Simplicity
Dear Reader,
What is a global citizen, really?
The Global Citizen Music Festival in New York City on September 23 is an effort to help end extreme poverty by 2030, as proposed by the United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goals. It comes on the heels of 11 Days of Global Unity and the International Day of Peace on September 21. These events together challenge us to look deeply at our…
KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Ma’ikwe Ludwig on Intentional Community
KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change
This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the shifting global landscape and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.
Episode 6 – Ma'ikwe Ludwig on Intentional…
Change Perception: personal, professional and public
The word transformation means a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. Indeed, the world as we perceive it, is in flux and changes can be detected in every realm. From ecosystem degradation to the extinction of nearly half of the 6,909 extant languages to the disappearance of 0.1% of all species on our planet, at 2 million annually, transformation in many cases is taking a dire turn,…
The role of artists in the emerging transformative paradigm
In recent years, my frustration, my curiosity and, yes, pure serendipity gave me a privileged access to high level scientific conferences on system analysis and complexity, where I was systemically the only policymaker. Indeed, our result-oriented policies do not deliver their intended outcomes. They are biased by our self-centered, linear, reductionist and mechanical Western worldview. And they…