Kosmos 2015 Seed Grants
The Kosmos Seed Grant Application Phase in now closed. Recipients will be announced in early April. Applicants, thank you for your participation and all your efforts to make a better world.
Kosmos is pleased to announce a new grant-giving initiative. Two Kosmos Seed Grants of $2500 each will be awarded in early 2015 to individuals or organizations that are working to advance 'transformation…
Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014
By Michel Bauwens, from his P2P Foundation blog.
Michel Bauwens, a member of our Advisory Board, has created a valuable list of 2014 peer-to-peer trends, with helpful links. Peer to peer relations, is a "new form of political organising and subjectivity, and an alternative for the current political/economic order. Peer to peer allows for ‘permission-less’ self-organisation to create common…
Journey to Wholeness
Dear Kosmos Community,
It fills our heart with joy when we think of each one of you walking beside us on this journey to wholeness. We, at Kosmos, are filled with gratitude for the gift of your support. Together we are creating a world community that faces our challenges with fearless courage and the nobility of the human spirit. We are inspired by deep love of all life, by the wisdom and…
The Fuji Declaration
By Masami Saionji and Hiroo Saionji
Almost a decade ago, the Goi Peace Foundation, together with our partners including the Kosmos Journal, launched an initiative for ‘Creating a New Civilization,’ envisioning a peaceful planetary civilization based on four pillars: Sustainability, Systems, Science and Spirituality. So, how far have we come in attaining our goals? While environmental, social and…
Kosmos Journal: Five Most-Read 2014
1. Development in the Ecological Age, By Charles Eisenstein
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if most people are connected to the Internet, and if, most…
Kosmos and the World Community Mourn the Pakistan Tragedy
By Dr. Dot Maver
We heard the news as we came together for our Kosmos staff meeting. Stunned. Chilling to think that anyone anywhere on the planet could think that killing children is an acceptable strategy for anything. We took a long moment of united silence, hearts across distance, immersed in the feelings and knowing that the people of Pakistan are not the only ones deeply grieving in this…
“We see furthest in the dark”
Dear Readers,
"We see furthest in the dark. Only at night are distant galaxies revealed. Only then do we see our true place in the order of things – the big picture."
Tara Stuart is a guiding light at Kosmos, a member of our Board and so much more. When she speaks I usually have to think twice. She has crossed the peaks and deserts of this earth on foot and by every other means imaginable.…
INTERVIEW Shaun Chamberlin on ‘Dark Optimism’ and the power of grief
Dark Optimism is the not-for-profit public interest research, activism and writing of Shaun Chamberlin, author of The Transition Timeline. This is an excerpt from a longer video interview Rhonda Fabian conducted at the New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland as part of a Findhorn Foundation documentary initiative.
Fabian: Shaun, please tell me what Dark Optimism means to you.…
BOOK Sacred Seed: A Collection of Essays
The book of essays, Sacred Seed: A Collection of Essays with an introduction by Vandana Shiva, is a meditation. Each essay draws on wisdom both ancient and modern to remind us that all life, and its renewal, begins and ends in the seed. "Tenderly composed of original writings and vibrant photos, this book bears witness that the Earth is alive, and establishes that only by working together with…
VIDEO A Conversation with Dot Maver – On Leadership
Dr. Dot Maver, Kosmos Project Director and lifelong peacebuilder, offers her thoughts about emerging models of leadership and our shared responsibility to master new forms of cooperation and co-creation in service to a more peaceful future.