Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins is the founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, US- based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and commerce. Cummins also serves on the steering committee of Regeneration International and OCA’s Mexican affiliate, Vía…
George Lakey
George Lakey recently retired from Swarthmore College, where he was Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change. He was first arrested in a civil rights demonstration in March 1963 and most recently in January, 2020 with Jane Fonda in her climate justice action at the U.S. Capitol. He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents. How We Win is his tenth book on…
Here Comes the Sun | Love and the Kosmos
Dear Reader,
I was moved by a recent Genesis Farm sharing from the revised edition of Brian Swimme’s Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. Here is an excerpt:
“The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light. Each second, a huge chunk of the Sun vanishes into radiant energy that soars away in all directions…In the case of the Sun, we have a new understanding of the cosmological…
February’s Featured Poet | Michael B. Carrol, Jr.
featured image | Gideon Rosenblatt
Interlude: Aren’t We Golden?
Aren’t we golden, my dear?
Look at the way our brown eyes shimmer,
on the cusp of freedom’s sunrise.
Isn’t our skin royal like bourbon in
a crystalline decanter?
Doesn’t our labor smell like victory,
and taste of sweet nectar?
Cocoa-butter-bodies glisten under moonlight
on a hot midsummer’s night—…
Call for Essays and Other Works | ‘True Wealth’ | Winter Gallery of Poets |
Kosmos Call for Essays and Other Works
True Wealth - What Matters Most Now? Deadline: 2/20/2020
“All currencies are tokenized forms of trust between humans in most societies, that is ‘information’, which serves to track and provide scoring systems (accounts, metrics, GDP, “growth”, etc.), of our human interaction with each other and the planet’s living biosphere.
– Hazel Henderson
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Winter Gallery of Poets
Carolyn Martin
Breaking News: God’s Rewilding Plan Leaked
According to a source high up and anonymous,
God will announce this week He’s rewilding the earth.
He confesses He should have rested on day six
while He was on a cosmic roll, and laments
He missed the signs: Bipeds, blinkered
by supremacy, would try to tame every thing.
He admits to verte- and invertebrates
His human trial…
The Fire Within
Dear Reader,
The new year has arrived with intensity. Australia burns and our friends there struggle to cope with incomprehensible losses of human life, habitat, and more than 500 million animals - indeed entire species. This, even as other places struggle to recover from recent infernos of their own. Our hearts break for all who suffer the effects of fire, including the fires of war, as…
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Essay From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
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Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Stories and Structures – New Connections delivers a new vision of Australia and its stories. I hope this exhibition will open new conversations and provide opportunities to make new and lasting connections and cross-cultural reconciliation.
A Story Still Unfolding
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard