CALL FOR READER’S ESSAYS What Makes You Feel Truly Alive?
Twice a year Kosmos invites our readers to submit an 800-word essay. We choose 2 or 3 essays to publish in our hard copy journal and publish several others in our newsletter and on our website. This is an opportunity for you to share your work and expertise with a large international audience.
We are excited about the next issue of Kosmos and hope you will participate.
The Spring/Summer…
The Commons Are Making a Comeback
By Nathan Schneider, from the blog of the P2P Foundation
The commons is an old, simple idea but one that we have never needed so urgently. It’s whatever a community of people shares and manages together. A commons can be anything from a lake that has been fished for centuries to a folk song no one owns to a neighborhood garden to the planet itself. Commoning goes back as long as human history,…
Economics for the Anthropocene
By Peter Barnes, from a talk given at the Schumacher Center for New Economics
I’m so happy to be back in Great Barrington and to have this opportunity to talk with you. We’re going to talk about economics tonight, so let me tell you about my career in economics. It started when I was ten and my father, a real economist, hired me to crunch numbers for a book he was writing about the stock…
A basic dictionary of the “Sharing Economy,” “Sharing Cities,” and communitarianism
By David de Ugarte, originally in Las Indias, (Translated by Steve Herrick from the original (in Spanish)
“Sharing” is more than a trend: for some, it is the engine of their businesses, for others, the touchstone from which to design cities to live in; for some, a way of life. But in any case, it would be good to differentiate these three environments to understand what they really represent and…
Kosmos Welcomes 2015
Happy New Year!
The Kosmos Team is welcoming 2015 by reflecting on our journey and striving to recognize the trends and themes anchoring and expressing in the emerging New Civilization. We are excited about our expansion in 2014 and what that means for the Kosmos Community in 2015 and beyond. At the heart of Kosmos is World Community, Global Citizenship, Personal Development and Systemic…
Our Shared Mission
Dear Readers,
Happy New Year to All! The changing of the calendar to a new year is a collective moment in which we rekindle our best intentions. Like many of you, Kosmos is looking ahead to new goals and continued collaborations in 2015. Dot Maver, our project director, shares about these in Kosmos Welcomes 2015.
In this edition of Kosmos Online, we reflect on the legacy of Reverend Dr.…
Watershed
By Martin Hill
Since 1992, in collaboration with Philippa Jones, I have focused my art practice on making environmental sculptures in nature that return to nature. My photographs are all that remain of the sculptures. They are exhibited, published, and collected worldwide. For me, making this body of work is my way of connecting with nature to tell the story of the transition that is underway…
INTERVIEW Neema Namadamu: “Community is Family”
Kosmos: What is the New Story to you, Neema?
NN: The story is about how we can move forward from old mind to a new story, to new mind, to new thinking, to new ways of doing things, to make things happen.
Kosmos: Do you see this happening?
NN: I’m always thinking of change when I see people fighting. There are challenges as an African women and being a woman with a disability in Africa is…
MLK and Transformation
By Michael Edwards, from Transformation, at openDemocracy.net
On a winter’s night in 1955, a young preacher named Martin Luther King climbed into the pulpit of the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Once there, he delivered a speech to a packed crowd of close to five thousand people that would eventually lead to his own assassination, but breathe new life into the struggle to…
Call for Proposals | Kosmos 2017 Seed Grants “The New Activism”
Dear Applicant,
Kosmos is pleased to announce the third year of the Kosmos Seed Grant initiative. Seed Grants of $2,500 will be awarded in Spring 2017 to individuals or organizations working to advance social change using new and experimental approaches to break through cultural barriers.
Guidelines for applicants are as follows:
All Members of Kosmos Community are eligible to apply.…