At Home in the Forest
I started taking photos in 2009. My pictures express the feelings and moods that I felt during my trips to the forest in the last few years. If I try to imagine myself, I see someone walking on the road straight to the light. This kind of light is in the photography and also as I process my own life. In the dreamland that I create I feel myself at home. I belong to the forest. I am under big…
The Optimistic Activist in Canada
By Tzeporah Berman, Alternatives Journal, Canada's Environmental Voice
“WHAT IS IT about activists that they can’t even be optimistic for one day after a whole decade?” The disgust and disappointment on my 16 year olds’ face is somewhat heartbreaking as he pours cereal the morning after the Canadian election and surfs the comments on my Facebook page. I can only shake my head sadly and agree…
AIM2FLOURISH
By Roberta Baskin
Epiphany is defined as a “sudden and striking realization.” But it doesn’t work that way with me. My epiphanies sometimes simmer gently for years, particularly one that emerged in the aftermath of a class I took on Appreciative Inquiry, taught by its guru, Professor David Cooperrider. Because I was a journalist long outraged by the corporate malfeasance I exposed as a network…
The New Optimism | 21 Stories for Transition
Via, Resilience.org
November 1st sees the publication of a landmark new publication from Transition Network. '21 Stories of Transition: how a movement of communities is coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world' is published in advance of the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris in December, and is a joyous and inspiring celebration of what the Transition movement has become. Here…
People Power – What Progress on Fighting Inequality Would Look Like
by Ben Phillips, via Global Dashboard
Movements overcome injustices not just by bearing witness to the wrongs of the time, but by enabling people to envision a better future. Martin Luther King described the Dream, the Promised Land, the place towards which people were marching. The Anti-Apartheid movement set out the Freedom Charter. Campaigners for debt cancellation painted a picture…
Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal – Meet the Contributors
We are pleased to unveil the Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal. The cover features the photo, Full moon rising over Mt. Hood, by J. Shimya. Below, see the list of this edition's features, with links to learn about our wonderful Contributors.
LIST OF FEATURES
Citizens Peace Movement of Iraq: An Interview - Kai Brand-Jacobsen and Kosmos
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is regarded…
The Surge toward Optimism
Dear Readers,
There is a growing feeling of optimism in the air. Every day at Kosmos we see signs and hear news of positive change. So many people and communities are dedicating themselves to transformation in harmony with people and planet. If one only listened to mainstream news reports and followed mainstream politics, there would be every excuse for cynicism; we know that is not the whole…
Fall-Winter 2015
Toward a Regenerative Civilization
In this IssueActivists for the Evolution of Life - by Nancy B. RoofCitizens Peace Movement of Iraq - by Kai Brand-JacobsenKosmos Global Ambassador Project - by Shahzor Ali MemonIntegral Spirituality - by Ken WilberOn Beauty - by Kosmos Journal→ Read more about this issue
Cañari Women’s Agricultural Associations
Women of the Cañari homeland have formed associations to solve their most pressing problems as they see them according to their experiences, background, education, reasoning and cosmovisión. They are preparing to feed their children better, become economically independent and restore family unity. To accomplish these goals, however, they are addressing many other issues that face the Cañari…
Three Ways to Tell You’re Part of a Global Transformation
How do you know you’re living through a major global transformation - possibly the greatest that humanity has ever seen? Let me try three very different explanations - and see which you find most compelling.
1.Take the Historical View
The history of the last five hundred years has been about establishing empire, conquering territory by force and establishing a single economic market system…