Investigative Reporting | A Reporter’s Notebook

For 30 years, I was a television reporter, roaming the world to investigate stories that needed to be told and the public deserved to understand. The last stop along that journey was a return to the cradle that helped launch me in journalism: WJLA-TV in Washington. It was, at first, a sweet homecoming. I worked with the same brilliant photographer that I had teamed up with 25 years before. The…

A Common Matter

What Is the Global Commons? While the term ‘commons’ has been in use for centuries in one context or another, the ‘global commons’ is a recent construct signifying the total inheritance of humankind upon which life depends. This includes more than natural resources such as forests, oceans and air. It encompasses our intellectual and cultural heritage—for instance, literature, art and the…

A Conversation with New Economist Susan Witt

On a gorgeous sunny morning the Kosmos team drove 30 minutes south to meet new economist Susan Witt on the picturesque grounds of the community land trust in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She greeted us at the car and showed us inside the New Economics Institute’s rustic office building to a light-filled room with rows of bookshelves. Susan co-founded the BerkShares local currency program in…

Images and Voices of Hope World Summit 2009

Catskill Images A few leaves just beginning to show a tint of their soon to be blazing autumnal colors, you and your companion drive into the Catskill Mountains on a late September Afternoon. After passing through a string of quiet towns, your drive takes you across the famously painted waters of the Hudson River via the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. The enduring beauty of the surrounding scenery is…

Spring-Summer 2010

In this IssueInequality: The Enemy Between Us? Why Inequality Matters - by Richard WilkinsonCommons Action for the United Nations - by Kosmos JournalKosmos Global Ambassador Program - by Stephanie ShorterListening to the Voice of Humanity - by Steven KullSeven Acupuncture Points for Shifting Capitalism to Create a Regenerative Ecosystem Economy - by C. Otto Scharmer→ Read more about this…

Inequality: The Enemy Between Us? Why Inequality Matters

Why do the poor suffer more from almost every health and social problem? Death rates are higher from cardiovascular disease, infections and many cancers among the least well-off; so too are violence, drug abuse, obesity, teenage births and school failure. Some people might think this is caused by the most vulnerable and least healthy people moving down the social hierarchy. Others suggest that…

Fall-Winter 2009

In this IssueLaunching the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment - by John RaatzEducating Global Citizens for the 21st Century - by Nancy B. RoofGlobal Citizens, Part I - by Mark GerzonGlobal Citizens | Part II - by Mark GerzonThe Rise of the Commons - by Reader Essay→ Read more about this issue

gallery one – Of War and Peace

Reza is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He is a renowned international photojournalist, who has captured the world in photographs for many leading publications, films and in more than 15 books. He has devoted much of his life to documenting conflicts and to humanitarian efforts. From war-torn Afghanistan to the streets of Sarajevo Reza's commitment to humanity and…