Geoff Livingston
A former journalist, Geoff continues to write, and has authored five books. Most recently he published his second novel Perseverance, co-authored Marketing in the Round, and wrote the social media primer Welcome to the Fifth Estate. Professionally, Geoff has advised more than 10 members of the Fortune 500, including AT&T, Cox, eBay, Ford, General Dynamics, Google, PayPal, Pepsi Co., Procter…
Martin Kirk
Head of Strategy, /The Rules
Martin Kirk is Co-founder and Director of Strategy for /The Rules, a global collective of writers, thinkers, coders, farmers, artists and activists of all types dedicated to challenging the root causes of global poverty and inequality. Prior to /The Rules Martin was the Head of Campaigns at Oxfam UK, and Head of Global Advocacy for Save the Children. He has written…
Unleashing the Learner: Massive Open Online Courses and the Decolonization of Education
There is a sea change under way in higher education, and it’s not in the ways that traditional universities think about themselves or do business. It’s not in the admissions requirements or policies of the elite universities. And you won’t find it spelled out in any new theory of learning.
It is a shift of power and autonomy from the institution to the learner due to emergent developments in…
Cat Zavis
Cat Zavis is the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. She is also an attorney, mediator and trainer in conflict resolution and empathic communication. She has co-led trainings with Rabbi Michael Lerner on integrating spirituality and activism and on communicating across differences on Israel and Palestine. You can reach Cat at cat@spiritualprogressives.org. To learn more…
A Radical Choice
There are different ways to live on our planet. We know it is possible to live an ordinary life that is integrated with an open heart and spirit. When Buckminster Fuller was asked how he described himself, he said, “I am an ordinary man.” We claim awareness of the potency of our choices. This is true more so now, at this precarious time on the planet. However, our research and personal experience…
Kosmos Seed Grant Recipients 2016
Activist Ashram
We are honored to receive a 2016 Kosmos Seed Grant for the Activist Ashram, our year-long global fellowship program that is launching this year. Our intent is to bring together a collective of activists, community leaders, organizers, bloggers, journalists, artists, and others to help create a shared global vision for the post-capitalist world, whilst remaining grounded in local…
Homo imaginans: The Imagining Earth
Steam lifted like strange dreams from the bubbling ground. Small vents gurgled and thumped. A funnel-shaped, blue pool hissed with heat. Florescent minerals made colorful mosaics between vaporous holes and hot streams. Some of the orifices belched mud. Bison and elk tracks pressed into the pale formations of the geyser basin. No one can believe such a place exists. Dreamlike. Hell-like.…
New Models and Practices
One cannot merely follow the timetable we have set for our influence on the world, we must also honour and respect the infinitely more complex timetable the world has set for itself. That timetable is the sum of the thousands of independent timetables of an infinite number of natural, historical, and human actions.
~ Vaclav Havel
The new normal is transformation, but what does that really mean?…
Regenerative Design Education: Living Praxis with a Friendly Universe
We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other as doorways.
We are ripples crossing and fusing, journeying and returning
from the core of the apple, the eye of the mandala,
the cave in the heart of the rose,
the circle without boundaries centered on silence.
–Marge Piercy, from “Circling”
We design enfolded in the rich, transdisciplinary rise and texture of the…
Martin Oliver
Martin Oliver is a freelance writer and activist based in Lismore, Australia.