Political Choice | why the two-party system is broken beyond repair
By Erik Faust, via his blog
In most of the democratic world, choice is valued as an integral part of democracy. This does not only hold true for choosing a product on a free market. Political choice – the choice to vote for a party that especially represents ones’ own point of view – is the bedrock for political systems from Portugal to Japan, from Australia to Denmark.
Voting in…
Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability
By Medard Gabel
Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest, depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams, decreasing…
Book Preview | Designing Regenerative Cultures
This is a pre-release excerpt from the first chapter of
Designing Regenerative Cultures, by Daniel Christian Wahl, PhD
Publication Date: May 2nd, 2016 | Publisher: Triarchy Press, UK
Regenerative Cultures create win-win-win solutions by asking deeper questions
The Author
On an over-populated planet facing the threat of run-away climate change and the depletion of many non-renewable…
8 Māori Words to Have You Celebrating Exactly Who You Are
By Bahadur Hāweatea Brysonon, via Elephant Journal
The Author
My maternal side is Māori (Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha) back through my grandmother and great grandmothers. My grandmother grew up in a time of subtle segregation, when being Māori wasn’t easy. Fairer, with light eyes, she kept that part of her close to her heart and didn’t raise my mother in it. It was only later that I found out she’d…
World Water Day | Bren Smith and Restorative Ocean Farming
Via Future of Fish and Green Wave
Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. Under the theme ‘Water and Jobs’, the year 2016 provides an important opportunity to consolidate and build upon the previous World Water Days to highlight the two-way relationship between water and the decent work agenda in the quest for sustainable development.
Bren Smith is a former…
Community Peacebuilder Immersion Training
Special Announcement
The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding is offering a Community Peacebuilder Immersion Training Program. This two-week residential experience will provide the knowledge, skills, and support for inspiring and operationalizing peacebuilding practices in personal life and work, potentially creating a center for peacebuilding, within the learner's community.
Kosmos…
Regenerative Practice, or ‘whakapapa’
Dear Reader,
Regenerative practice is a beautiful term. On the one hand, to regenerate is to ‘make whole again’, to restore and improve a place or system so that it is active or producing good results. Practice is the application, the doing as opposed to the theorizing; it implies repetition as a means of achieving skillfulness.
Regenerative and restorative practices are increasingly…
An Invitation to Participate in Creating a Regenerative Society
by The Center for Planetary Culture
Buckminster Fuller
The visionary design scientist Buckminster Fuller believed humanity faced a choice between ‘utopia or oblivion.’ According to Fuller, we will either establish a world where everyone on Earth receives a research grant for life in whatever subject interests them or we will fall by the wayside, like the vast majority of species before us.…
Two Spirit: The Story of a Movement Unfolds
(Kosmos Note: We have updated this article to properly credit Zachary Pullin, the original creator of the content from which the previous article was derived. Kosmos regrets the mixup and any inconvenience that may have been caused to our readers, Native Peoples Magazine, or to Mr. Pullin.)
Two spirit -- the movement, the societies and the term itself -- marks a return to Native American…
The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power
By Bayo Akomolafe, via his blog
As if in jest of the overwrought standards of ‘debating’ we were subjected to as school-going kids, whereby we would be made to curtsy before an animated audience of wide-eyed parents at end-of-year school events – telling them why teachers were ‘better’ than farmers (or vice versa), my friends and I often came up with our own equally silly corollaries. After…