Sacred Water of Life
'Water gives life to the world and does not strive.' - Lao Tsu
Dear Readers,
It is the source of all Life, yet in most 'developed' places we take it for granted. Still, few could go even a single day without it. So, consider that 1 in 9 people worldwide do not have access to safe and clean water. What would you do if you could not provide a drink of water to your child? The United Nations…
Knowing Water: World Water Day 2015
March 22nd is #WorldWaterDay. To be conversant about water and issues around its uses, here are some fascinating facts and important statistics compiled by UN Water Day.
97.5% of all water on Earth is salt water, leaving only 2.5% as fresh water. Of this nearly 70% is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland; most of the remainder is present as soil moisture, or lies in deep underground…
A Kosmos Gallery – ICE, by Jasmine Rossi
ICE (H20) is an ongoing project that portrays the effects of Global Warming. The world, as it has been for millennia, is changing and Jasmine Rossi has chosen photography as a medium to stir our conscience and make us reflect on the dire question of the future of our planet. (click the image to view full-sized)
Crystal Palace
Millenial Green…
Maude Barlow on the water crisis in Brazil
By Maude Barlow, speaking on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio's The Current.
Brazil has about 12 per cent of the world's fresh water, yet its largest city, Sao Paulo, is starting to run dry. More than 11 million residents of Sao Paulo have been forced to severely ration what little water they receive and some go days without water.
Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National…
Transboundary Water Cooperation – a brief overview
By Rhonda Fabian
Last week Israel and Jordan signed a major water cooperation agreement called the “Red-Dead” project, to supply water for both countries and help replenish the diminished Dead Sea.
Hailed as “the most significant agreement since the peace treaty with Jordan,” the project will connect the Red Sea to the Dead Sea via a 200-kilometer-long pipeline that will transport 100…
Sacred Waters – Messages from two Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
Message from Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta
According to the Ancestors we believe that the milky way is the cosmic river that appears each night in the sky and that touches the tips of two important glaciers in the Andes. From this connection the milky way donates a part of herself and gives us the sacred water that is then manifested here on Earth as a legacy for all of humanity. It is this sacred…
Three summer programs to note
P2P Summer School: The Art of Commoning
WeCreate, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland
5 days from August 24th – 28th, 2015
The P2P Summer School is designed for adult educators, trainers and facilitators for change, coaches and people working with their local communities in the fields of sustainability, community resilience and climate adaptation who want to build the capacity,…
One Billion Acts of Peace Rising
Kosmos is pleased to announce our partnership with PeaceJam and the One Billion Acts of Peace initiative, a five year effort promoted as potentially the largest global citizenship campaign to date. This initiative is supported by numerous groups, youth around the world, and many Nobel Laureates. You are invited to submit your Act of Peace and watch for updates periodically in the Kosmos…
What is the Greatest Power in Creation?
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Kosmos editor, Rhonda Fabian shared this exchange, on February 19, 2015.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, courtesy Global Spirit
Kosmos: Teacher, what aspect or quality of our essential human nature can best counteract the powerful pull of consumerism and greed that traps so many?
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee: Love is the greatest power in creation, and the most essential…
A New Dawn for World Governance
By Jean Rossiaud and the Forum for a new World Governance
Jean Rossiaud, Forum for a new World Governance Coordinator
The world-governance system so desperately needed today has necessarily to be multilateral. Confrontations are recurrent and growing in numbers, while economic, political, and military multilateralism is blocked by belligerent tensions and xenophobic ideologies. As a result,…