On Regenerative Systems: A Critique of Regenerative Capitalism
by Elizabeth Kucinich and Dennis Kucinich
In his powerful essay on Regenerative Capitalism, John Fullerton describes breakthrough thinking, which moves us away from ideological divides that tether us to a worldwide economy that is destructive of human values to a system that supports people and planet, in the vein of Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins.
Conventional economic design places us at…
Call for Essays | Emerging Models Transforming Our Lives
Dear Reader,
Twice a year Kosmos invites our readers to submit an 800-word essay. We choose 2 or 3 essays to publish in our hard copy journal and publish several others in our newsletter and on our website. This is an opportunity for you to share your work and expertise with an engaged international audience.
The Spring/Summer 2016 issue of Kosmos explores many themes, yet what is capturing…
The Political Scientist Who Debunked Mainstream Economics
By David Bollier, via evonomics.com
The truth about the tragedy of the commons
“Picture a pasture open to all.”
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage resources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. In a short but influential essay published in Science in 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin gave the story a…
Film Trailer | An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity
via New Story Hub | Findhorn Foundation
Kosmos is delighted to share the news of a new film coming soon. An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity, is the resulting documentary film of an extraordinary gathering that took place in the Autumn of 2014. The New Story Summit at the Findhorn Foundation was attended by change makers and activists from over 50 countries, including a delegation from…
Desecration Phrasebook: a litany for the Anthropocene
By Robert Macfarlane, via The Age of Transition blog
(Images: David Hannah/Getty; Marnie Burkhart/plainpicture)For good or ill, we are remaking Earth. What new words will be needed to describe the planet in the the age of humans?Ten years ago a Hebridean friend of mine called Finlay MacLeod imagined what he called “The Counter-Desecration Phrasebook”. In his thought experiment, this would be a…
Absurd Heroism
By Margaret Wheatley, via Awakin.org
Consider Sisyphus. As described in both Greek and Roman mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to an eternity of futile and hopeless labor. He had to roll a rock to the top of the mountain, only to watch it tumble back down from its own weight and the natural force of gravity. Then he would roll it to the top again. Forever. The French existential…
Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age | an Open Letter to the American People
by Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney, via Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Dear Fellow Citizens:
By their purported test of a hydrogen bomb early in 2016, North Korea reminded the world that nuclear dangers are not an abstraction, but a continuing menace that the governments and peoples of the world ignore at their peril. Even if the test were not of a hydrogen bomb but of a smaller…
From Darkness Into Light | Winter Festival Notes from a Carpathian Village
By Peter Straton Bejger, for Kosmos Online
“Before there was a heaven or an earth
There was only the blue sea
And in the center of the sea stood a green tree.
And on this green tree sat three doves
And the three doves deliberated
And deliberated as to how the earth should be created…”
-Traditional Ukrainian winter song, from
Still the River Flows: Winter Solstice and Christmas Rituals…
‘Leli’ | a Poem, accompanied by an Essay
by Megan Hollingsworth, for Kosmos Online
Leli
She is the newborn’s instinct that clings and climbs to mother’s breast.
The same instinct to stay dark and tight and warm in a surrogate womb, folded linen
She is the tap root’s glorious belonging touching down to secure claim
Undeniable faith and fidelity. Hardly does she wither, nary ever does she decay
Dispossessed, she implants…
Facing Our Darkness
Dear Reader,
It is surely winter now at Kosmos, the deep pause between the dying of the old and the emergence of the new. Natural cycles often have a dark phase, when the life force burns low. The world we were so sure of, is no longer. And what is coming, has yet to appear. It is natural to have dark feelings - anxiety, even hopelessness in these times of seasonal and global uncertainty, the…