EVENT International Peace & Planet Conference: April 24-26
Nuclear weapons pose a very real and current threat to life and our planet — yet there are tangible steps we can take to eliminate them. These steps were presented and discussed in a webinar hosted by United Religions Initiative in North America last month by world-renowned speakers and experts Bishop Bill Swing, Founder and President of URI and member of Voices for a World Free of Nuclear…
Which is the Most Responsible Nuclear Nation?
by Kevin Martin
The U.S. and five other world powers – Russia, China, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, known collectively as the P5+1 for the permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany – hope to soon conclude an agreement with Iran in order to address concerns over its nuclear program. With this agreement near (assuming the U.S. Congress doesn’t torpedo the deal with…
READER’S ESSAY Cultural Re-evolution
by Seth Phillips
In Mexico I caught a bug. It didn't make me sick to my stomach, but it did affect my brain.
We were living in a mountain town and had driven down a rutted dirt road to tour the property of an acquaintance living off the grid. My wife and I were just beginning to talk about reducing our ecological footprint and that afternoon we saw tangible examples of practices that were…
Ethical Ecology
Dear Readers:
Earth Day is April 22, a special occasion to reflect on our relationship with the planet and one another. Ecology has reformed our conception of who we are as human beings. It is a worldview and through its lens we now view the interrelationship of all Life, rather than its separate components. Ethics are a values-based system of thinking and being that enable social cooperation…
‘Double Enclosure’- the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency
by Heike Loeschmann
Kosmos was delighted to attend the recent EDGE Funders Alliance Conference in Baltimore. The following text is from a presentation by Heike Loeschmann of the Heinrich Boell Foundation on Transformational Change. First, for context, here is the Edge Funders 5-minute Plenary Film 2015 - Better, Not More.
Dr. Heike Löschmann, Head of Department for International Politics…
Five Years after BP Oil Spill: Focus Should Be on Continued Need for Restoration
New Orleans, LA
Leading Conservation Groups Challenge BP to Stop Campaign of Misinformation, Fund Restoration
It is five years since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 men and spewing at least 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In advance of the memorial, leading national and local conservation organizations working on Mississippi River Delta and Gulf Coast…
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2015 Kosmos Seed Grant Recipient – UniTED
Kosmos is delighted to introduce our 2015 Seed Grant Recipient: UniTED
By Vicky Clayton, UniTED Trustee and Co-founder
UniTED aims to strengthen global civil society and encourage collaboration on tackling global issues. We do so through facilitating friendship and collaboration between students all around the world who are working on projects for social good. We chose university students…
2015 Kosmos Seed Grant Recipient – Harlem Grown
Kosmos is delighted to introduce our 2015 Seed Grant Recipient: Harlem Grown.
Harlem Grown is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 with a mission to inspire youth to live healthy and ambitious lives through mentorship and hands-on education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition. They operate local urban farms; increase access and knowledge of healthy food for Harlem residents;…
Seeds of a New Activism: Six Stories that No Longer Serve Us and What’s Next
By Micha Narberhaus, in the Current Edition of Kosmos Journal
Many activists realise that the ways their organisations (or civil society sector) are trying to fix problems don’t seem to work anymore. They believe that while they have won many battles, we as humanity are losing the planet; while the world would be worse off without the battles that have been won, in the end things are not…