Larry Kopald

Larry Kopald is President and Co-Founder of The Carbon Underground. For twenty years Kopald was Creative Director for some of the world’s leading advertising agencies, overseeing advertising for companies like Honda, American Express, McDonalds, and CocaCola. In 2008 he took that experience to the world of social change, co-founding Kopald/Stranger, a change agency that counted companies such…

What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics

Now is the time to offer new political narratives—inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing, living, and being—that speak to a flourishing of ecologically-rooted communities and genuine prosperity. Now is the time for economic localisation. It is the way human beings can become part of the Cure of the Earth, the Cura da Terra, as Indigenous peoples have been since time immemorial.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of Local Futures (International Society for Ecology and Culture). A pioneer of the “new economy” movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social, and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary, "The Economics of Happiness," and is the author of Ancient…

Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth

"The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. ...They are part of the Cura Da Terra, "Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon."

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is a guest faculty member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity and international perspectives of reality. Tiokasin is the founder, host and executive producer of the…

August’s Featured Poet | Amy Baskin

Solve —on the inhale, entering into The Grotto Labyrinth Listening is exhausting. We all know how to fix other people’s problems. If it were up to me, everyone would wake up and go to sleep on my clock, eat cruciferous greens, fast for 14 hours, and still make time for pie. Cruelty would be a thing of the past. But I need to turn off the looping track of my inner know-it-all. It knows what…

Kosmos Summer 2020 Gallery of Poets

Aaron Facer Terminal Step into the fallout, into the grey clear-cut acres where trees once stood; where there is no memory apart from the wind crying quietly over brittle reeds. Step out into downpour, into the unexpected, the inevitable; plunging into bad investments and council estates falling like cliffs to the sea. Step out with the blind who grope through alleyways, with the…