Be Bold for Change – the importance of international campaigning and solidarity
By Stevi Jackson and Victoria Robinson via Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, UK
As we approach International Women's Day it is worth celebrating feminism's achievements as well as acknowledging how much still needs to be done. The theme for 2017's campaign is 'Be Bold for Change', which necessitates, we would argue, being bold in how we frame and celebrate past and current…
Feminine Principles and Social Change | Action Rooted in Spirit
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, adapted from a new preface to The Return of the Feminine and World Soul
"The Feminine is the matrix of creation, without her full participation nothing new can be born.”
Today we are faced by ongoing ecological devastation, polluted air, rising seas, and the world’s worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II. If we can bear to hear the cry—both of the…
Five Insights about Global Transformation from the Kosmos Study, Connecting for Change
Last year, Kosmos commissioned a communication research study to better understand an emerging global movement and how groups within the movement could connect effectively. Led by Kosmos Digital Editor Rhonda Fabian and Jen Horner, PhD, both alumni of the Anneneberg School for Communication, the study was shared widely with the Kosmos community and remains one of the most-read features on our…
Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
It’s delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull
They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line
Their minds rustle with million dollar bills
You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
And Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control.
– Buffy Sainte-Marie, “The Priests of the Golden Bull”1
What if we told you that humanity is…
World Water Day | Bren Smith and Restorative Ocean Farming
Via Future of Fish and Green Wave
Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. Under the theme ‘Water and Jobs’, the year 2016 provides an important opportunity to consolidate and build upon the previous World Water Days to highlight the two-way relationship between water and the decent work agenda in the quest for sustainable development.
Bren Smith is a former…
Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity
By Alnoor Ladha
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Columbia University Press, 2014
Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
Dieter Duhm
Verlag Meiga Press, 2015
In 1972, the Club of Rome published a groundbreaking study titled The Limits to Growth. MIT scientists used computer simulations to create scenarios playing out how exponential…
Embracing Our Common Future | An Interfaith Call to Action on Climate Change
Declaration on Climate Change of the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions
Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming. The chief cause is human use of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases. Deforestation is also a cause, as is pollution of oceans. These facts are accepted by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
The damaging impacts of climate change are already extensive. Many of…
A Tale of Two Futures: Planetary Realism in the Time of Climate Change
Graphic: James Provost
By Hannibal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation
Picture the scene: Two groups of doctors, one large, one small, gather in distinct but interlocking rooms, around the inescapable body of an ailing patient; Earth, our only home. At this stage their diagnosis appears clear and unified. They agree that the planet is suffering from anthropogenic climate change caused by dangerously…
Integrating Sectors to Achieve Holistic Change
Imagine a day when the world comes together to solve challenges as an integrated sector. We bring together public and private sectors in fusion centers to dissect problems, develop holistic innovations, and create change that addresses the root causes of our most pressing challenges using our combined resources, reach, and capacity. Diverse perspectives give way to breakthrough innovations.…
Manifesto of the Secret World Government
We are the many, coming to find ourselves, to understand the power we each hold when acting in service. As we move, as we come together, we find the strength we share, our boundless ability to shape the world, the future, the life that calls to us.
We are the Government of the Secret World, discovering ourselves anew.
We are the Secret Government of the World, finding our power in service.……