Saad Dagher
Saad Dagher is Ambassador of GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) in Palestine, agricultural engineer and environmentalist, and has specialised in agricultural ecology for 25 years. He is also a yoga teacher, Reiki master, and beekeeper. Dagher introduced the concept of agrarian ecology into Palestine and has recently set up his own agro-ecological farm (The Humanist Farm—Ma'azouza). He is also…
Laura Williams
Laura Williams is an ecologist and environmental activist; coworker of the Awakened Life Project, a cultural and awareness experiment in central Portugal.
Barbara Kovats
Barbara Kovats was trained as an archeologist. She lives and works at Tamera in Portugal where she coordinates the Solar Test Field, as community-builder and member of the Women's Council.
Leah Penniman
Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer who has been tending the soil for twenty years and organizing for an anti-racist food system for fifteen years. She currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-color led project that works to dismantle racism in the food system. She is the recipient of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award…
DRAWDOWN | Top 10 Solutions To Reverse Climate Change
Via Green America
This article originally appeared in Green American’s Winter 2017 issue.
Paul Hawken and the Project Drawdown experts thought they knew what to expect when they modeled and ranked 80 solutions that could reverse global warming. But the data had some surprises in store.
Most prominently was that even when the solutions are modeled in terms of what they call a “Plausible…
Vision of Unity | Summit Take-aways
Heartfelt thank-you for a beautiful and powerful gathering! On Sunday morning at the summit I knew and felt that something opened up deep in me. - Participant
Dear Reader,
Kosmos Founder Nancy Roof welcoming Summit-goers
It has taken some time to reflect on all the richness of the recent 4-day Climate, Consciousness and Community Summit. We arrived as champions of our individual…
CCC Summit | Working Group
Dear Climate, Consciousness and Community Summit Attendees and Friends,
We are grateful for and inspired by your attendance at the CCC Summit April 20-23. We have begun to assemble some key resources from the Summit on this page. We will continue to update and make as much information available as we can.
Please use the comments section at the end of this post for questions and to connect…
Reconnecting with the Living Earth through Restorative Justice
By Femke Wijdekop
Our legal system contributes to our disconnection from the Earth. It mistakenly treats nature as a commodity and entitles us to own and exploit the natural world. However, treating nature as property leads to violations of both human rights and nature’s rights. When we continue to exploit nature, this will sooner or later result in human suffering:
Unbridled extraction…
Kosmos April Gallery of Poets
Worlds Apart
by Larina Warnock
Darker clouds than these linger
over other parts of the world,
litter the sky with visions of coral
shading starfish, of castles breaking
beneath the weight of weightless waves, of
Jesus and Mary, of dinosaurs and dogs.
Darker clouds than these billow below snow-
covered peaks and above cities that don’t sleep and
between villages that have learned…