Are you an Everyday Citizen?
by Lindsay Fahey and Beverly Winterscheid
What does citizenship look like in your daily life?
Is it showing up at the polls to cast your vote? Or is it the small actions you take to make the communities you live and work in a little bit better each day like attending a town meeting? Or brainstorming ideas to turn an abandoned lot into a city park?
How is your view of civic engagement the…
Josh Gorman on the New Story for Young People
Joshua Gorman is the founder and Coordinator of Generation Waking Up, an organization that is igniting young changemakers to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world. He designed a major called “Global Youth and Social Change” at George Mason University, serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Youth Action Network/TakingITGlobal-US, and supports youth-led projects…
The Nature of Community | Restorative Justice and Permaculture
By Jonathan McRay, via Peacebuilder
Humans are inextricably connected to the earth. We inhabit, breathe, drink, and eat this strange blue globe that is our only home. The oldest religious traditions recognized this scientific claim by weaving stories, almost myths-as-memory, which describe humans as creatures crafted from the dirt: adam and adama, human and humus, culture and cultivate.…
Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene
by Glenn A. Albrecht, via his blog
Exiting The Anthropocene
Pink foam from toxic industrial waste floating in the river Yamuna in North Delhi, India
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). The name is derived from the observed human influence and indeed dominance of all…
Is there a ‘New Story’ beyond the Anthropocene?
Dear Readers,
The idea of a New Story for humanity is a tricky business. Whose story? We seem very far removed from any kind of global consensus about what is fair and just for all people and the planet. It's commonplace to say we live in a time of great uncertainty. Yet, have times ever been certain? Only for the elite perhaps, the few.
As Paul Ray points out in Co-creating the New Wisdom…
A Diverse Wisdom Culture
Excerpts from a dialogue between Duncan Campbell and Paul Ray, via Living Dialogues
Introduction
Coleman Barks, poet and leading American translator of the world-centric poet Rumi, has observed that “we are trying to create a civilization without elders to lead us”. That is not to say that this new civilization – or wisdom culture – will be without elders, but as I take it, only that in…
2016 Kosmos Seed Grant Recipient | Wilmington in Transition
Pacem in Terris and Wilmington in Transition are thrilled to receive this important Seed Grant. It will help shape a new and focused effort on transforming our community, and serve as a prototype for other community efforts. Here is what we will be doing:
Working with other neighborhood organizations and institutions in the low-income, multi-racial community in which we are located, we will…
2016 Kosmos 2016 Kosmos Seed Grant Recipient | Project NEWS (Native Engagement within Systems)
Project NEWS is so honored to be a recipient of a Kosmos Seed Grant. Theresa Grant Snyder, Chairperson of the Board of The Sacred Pipe Resource Center, said the Board was excited about the project because it will help “amplify the voice of Native people”. Many times, she notes, off-reservation Native Americans are the “hidden” Native Americans. Living off the reservation, they are not recognized…
Defining Civic Engagement
We gathered some ideas to consider about civic engagement:
There are many ways in which people participate in civic, community and political life and, by doing so, express their engaged citizenship. From volunteering to voting, from community organizing to political advocacy, the defining characteristic of active civic engagement is the commitment to participate and work for social changes…
Kosmos 2016 Seed Grant | ‘Projects of Promise’
Ultimately, the challenge is one of necessity for now and the future. We need more leaders making decisions from a deeper place of wisdom. That’s it in a nutshell - the more dialogue, conversation, understanding and engagement on raising children and leaders to lead from within, a place of reflection, understanding, awareness, consciousness, the better the world will be. - Kosmos Seed Grant…