Margaret Miller
Margaret Miller has travelled and worked in different parts of the world, which has left her loving the world’s beauty… and terrified for its future. She finds the process of essay writing keeps her somewhat sane in the midst of it all. Her studies have led her to inspirational teachers of ecotheology and biblical studies and their influence continues to infuse her thinking and writing. She…
Gregg Kleiner
Gregg Kleiner is the author of the novel Where River Turns to Sky (HarperCollins), which was a finalist for both the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Oregon Book Award and was optioned for a feature film by Fox Searchlight. His first book for kids (and their grownups), Please Don't Paint Our Planet Pink!, addresses the climate crisis by asking what might happen if we could see CO2, as pink? At age…
We’re stepping up – join us September 20!
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Many notable activists and celebrities are calling for a global climate strike on 20 September. Disrupting our normal lives is the only way to secure our future, says Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and others.
On 20 September, at the request of the young people who have been staging school strikes around the world, we’re walking out of our…
Sam Lee
As an artist Sam traverses many worlds, challenging and pioneering folk music in diverse places and ways. Not just an award-winning singer with two highly decorated albums to his name and a sound incomparable to his contemporaries’; his work fostering live music in the UK has been instrumental in the explosion of folk of the last decade. Sam reinvents not just the way these ancient songs should…
Kosmos Quarterly Summer Preview | All My Relations
Dear Reader,
When I chose the phrase, 'All My Relations' as the theme for the Summer Quarterly, I chose it with the understanding that it is sometimes misused. In the Lakota language, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ is an important ceremonial prayer of harmony and oneness with all beings.
Mitakuye means relations and Oyasin means more than family, more than a Nation, more than all of humankind, everything…
Mark Wallace
Religion Professor Mark Wallace describes his research and writing as “an exercise in the emerging field of religion and ecology—a promising new line of inquiry in religious studies. The profound theological questions posed by most if not all human cultures are now seen as questions that have direct bearing on ecological understanding. Questions such as, Are human beings part of or beyond nature?…
Heather Smith
Heather Smith has worked in healthcare at Penn Medicine for 30 years. In 2016, she co-founded PA Rhino Conservation Advocates (PARCA), Inc. after a life-changing trip to Africa and the opportunity to meet conservationists Dereck and Beverly Joubert. Heather serves as president of PARCA whose mission is to fund the relocation and protection of wild rhinos, fund the care of young rhinos orphaned by…
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Sarah Brown Weitzman, a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, is widely published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including New Ohio Review, North American Review, The Bellingham Review, Rattle, Mid-American Review, Spillway, and elsewhere.