A Tale of Two Futures: Planetary Realism in the Time of Climate Change
Graphic: James Provost
By Hannibal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation
Picture the scene: Two groups of doctors, one large, one small, gather in distinct but interlocking rooms, around the inescapable body of an ailing patient; Earth, our only home. At this stage their diagnosis appears clear and unified. They agree that the planet is suffering from anthropogenic climate change caused by dangerously…
Globalization and Terror
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIL. The beheadings, rapes, (recent coordinated crimes of hatred in Paris and around the world, ed.), and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient monuments.…
Citizens Peace Movement of Iraq | A Kosmos Interview with Kai Brand-Jacobsen
KOSMOS JOURNAL FALL | WINTER 2015
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is regarded as one of the leading pioneers, innovators and practitioners in the field of peacebuilding in the world today. For nearly 20 years he has worked across all continents and many of the most challenging war zones and crisis situations in the world at the invitation of governments, international agencies, and communities…
‘Cuba in Changing Times’, a talk by Rafael Hernandez
Kosmos is pleased to co-sponsor this upcoming event. On Sunday evening, November 15, 2015, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics will host Cuban author Rafael Hernández to give a talk at the John Dewey Academy at Searles Castle in Great Barrington titled: “Cuba in Changing Times”
Rafael Hernández is the editor of Témas, the leading Cuban magazine renowned for its contribution to…
Poetry Submission
Beauty
There is nowhere to hide
in the desert, under the full moon,
in the blue light that pours
through the body like water.
It as if we are born again
in the open air, to feel our bare
skin against the world for the first time.
And from here, eyes untethered,
we see a different kind of beauty
that lives underneath the surface—
that quivers in the thorns
and breaks out of the…
The Asian Vision of Change
Below factual story was narrated by a (Late) respectable educated man Mr. Ghulam Hassan Khan of Marghuaz village swabi Pakistan during the research study on Jirga.He himself becomes agent of change by using his wisdom, knowledge and power during the process of Jirga that was taken place in tribal area. http://peace.fresno.edu/docs/Pukhtoon_Jirga.pdf
One day I passed by the village hujra,…
Hope at the End of the Industrial Age – Welcoming First World Version 2.0
Copyright 2015 Lauri Ann Lumby
I have had several in-depth conversations with people who are concerned over manufacturing jobs leaving our country, wondering if in this mass-exodus the United States would cease to be a first-world country and will revert into third-world status. As these concerns were raised, I turned inward and instead of doom, saw before me a new world in the process of…
Upgrading Human Thoughtware
My highest value is contributing full-out in a non-hierarchical self-organized chaordic-collaboration of transformational possibility makers doing whatever they can to build bridges over which humanity can walk into a sustainable human presence on Earth. We started in 2006. We call it Trainer Guild (www.ncrtc.eu).
Recently 6 of us Trainer Guilders (3 couples, plus some kids) bought a seminar…
Living Transformation
The world’s population is currently above 7 billion people and it’s expected to grow rapidly to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050. The high rate of population growth do not concurrent with existing natural resources such as water, land, forests, fish, air, mines, gas, oil, and etc. Technological progressive accelerate excessive consumption of resources from nature as well as production of…
A Life of Rain
Their eyes go wide. Their jaws even drop a bit, sometimes.
“Really?” they say every time.
Yup.
We live off rain catchment.
Really.
Year round, our only source of water. Yes, really, for all our needs. From drinking to watering the garden. And yes, we live in a high desert with an average of 8 inches of rainfall a year. And you know what?
It's not that big a deal.
When we…