Sharing the News: The Transformation of Journalism in the Digital Age
The newspaper era was defined by competition. Each newspaper could reach only as far as its area of distribution, so it fought to gain a monopoly there. By the early twentieth century, most major cities had at least two major papers, a morning and an evening edition, battling for audiences.
These battles over the newspaper business also drove editorial sensibilities. The watchword for early…
The 5 Most Popular Articles in Kosmos Journal, 2015
The five most popular articles this year in Kosmos Journal together form an interesting family. All five in some way focus the lens of the Sacred on core topics, such as nature, science and community.
Here are the opening paragraphs of each one, in the order of most-read:
1. Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature by Rhonda Fabian
It has rained steadily…
Consciousness | Seeds and Soils of the Commons
by Joni Carley, DMin
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called. - Buckminster Fuller
Omega Institute for Sustainable Living
Omega Institute’s 2015 Forum on the Commons focused on literal and philosophical…
Kosmos Interview | Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury on the Culture of Peace
Interview with Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN, 11 December 2015
by Dot Maver
Since the founding of the United Nations, the efforts of a comprehensive research and action focus on particular issues at the highest level of governance, with all countries represented, is making a difference in various areas of human life around…
Kosmos Interview | American Muslim Voice Founder, Samina Faheem Sundas
Interview with Samina Faheem Sundas, Founder of American Muslim Voice, December 13, 2105
Samina Faheem Sundas, a Sunni Muslim woman originally from Pakistan living in the United States, is the founder of American Muslim Voice, a grassroots organization that seeks to foster lifelong friendships between Muslims and all communities through interfaith dialogue. She has received many awards as a…
Witness to Emergence
Dear Readers,
As we approach the Winter Solstice at Kosmos, we reflect on completion and change. Each year, it's as though the Earth completes one great breath. Yet, even as we prepare to enter the darker days of the year, we know life is continuous and Spring is already flowing toward us. We are grateful for the predictable grace of changing seasons.
We are the ones who must change now,…
Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity
By Alnoor Ladha
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Columbia University Press, 2014
Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
Dieter Duhm
Verlag Meiga Press, 2015
In 1972, the Club of Rome published a groundbreaking study titled The Limits to Growth. MIT scientists used computer simulations to create scenarios playing out how exponential…
Embracing Our Common Future | An Interfaith Call to Action on Climate Change
Declaration on Climate Change of the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions
Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming. The chief cause is human use of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases. Deforestation is also a cause, as is pollution of oceans. These facts are accepted by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
The damaging impacts of climate change are already extensive. Many of…
People’s Climate Prayer | Earth Holders in Action
Via Earthholder.org
Created in the US in 2015, Earth Holders is an affinity group within the Plum Village International Community of Engaged Buddhists, founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
In accordance with the UN climate negotiations November 30 through December 11, Earthholder.org has created a format for committed 'earth practice' as a global community. These commitments will be taken up…
Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature
By Rhonda Fabian
Principle 6 – Nature functions cooperatively.
Practice - Thriving as a community
By looking at Nature, we can learn ways that plants, animals, and other living things think and act cooperatively. It is not possible for one person or one business to act cooperatively or be sustainable. Sustainability is a community practice. The quality of relationships in any living…