Yvonne Cuneo
Cynthia Jurs
Cynthia Jurs founded Alliance for the Earth, a nonprofit dedicated to global healing and collective awakening. She is a teacher in the Order of Interbeing of Thich Nhat Hanh, and for 24 years, together with elders and activists, has carried out the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project. www.earthtreasurevase.org.
Michael Nagler
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the immensely popular nonviolence course that was webcast in its entirety as well as PACS 90, "Meditation" and a sophomore seminar called "Why Are We Here? Great Writing on the Meaning of Life" for fifteen years. Among other…
Arthur Romano
Arthur Romano is an international educator, researcher, and consultant specializing in developing sustainable educational approaches for transforming conflict. He has worked in Africa, Asia and the US supporting communities in creatively engaging with conflict and he advises a wide range of organizations on the development of conflict resolution education programs. Arthur currently is a professor…
Setting the Agenda
Dear Readers,
A trilogy of important events is helping define the contours of what we at Kosmos call the emerging global transformation movement. The New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland was one of them, and although the Summit has ended, its effects will ripple for some time to come. We are so grateful Kosmos was able to participate in this event. Summit co-organizer Richard Olivier shares…
Reflections on the New Story Summit
By Richard Olivier
Richard Olivier, Summit co-focalizer, reflects on the inspiration and learnings emerging from the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future, held at the Findhorn Foundation and Community 27 September – 3 October 2014.
Dear fellow Summiteers,
Firstly I want to thank each and every one of you who showed up, who heard the call, accepted the…
VIDEO: Localization for People and the Earth
The movement for localization is growing rapidly, worldwide. These international voices from ISEC's 2014 Economics of Happiness conference in Bangalore, India, succinctly tell us why globalization is so damaging, why localization is the most strategic antidote, and what we can do to help make the shift from global to local.
Watch this 7 minute, eye-opening video: Localization for People and…
EVENT: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis, Nov. 8 in NYC
Climate chaos, world conflict, species extinction, income inequality, financial insecurity… All our most pressing crises are connected. And they have their roots in an economy dominated by global corporations. We need structural change.
Rebuilding local economies is a solution-multiplier ‒ reducing our ecological footprint while simultaneously increasing our social and economic well-being.…
VIDEO: The Promise of the Commons
John D. Liu, Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
In the mid-1990's I began a participatory process with a number of media and broadcasting colleagues in Beijing that led to the creation of the Environmental Education Media Project for China (EEMPC). I have directed the EEMPC (now the EEMP) from its beginning. The EEMPC has distributed over 1000 environmental films in China since…
EVENT: Where We Go From Here Conference
Where We Go From Here Conference
Building the Collaborative Commons
October 24-26
As a global community, we currently face many challenges. We collectively depend on shared resources including clean water, energy, a just economy, access to food and the Internet. However, these assets are threatened by economic, political, and social systems that do not support what’s best for the vast…