The Power of Community

‘Ecovillages’—communities that consciously regenerate life within and around them—start appearing when we notice that the world really needs us to wake up and come fully present now. 'Business as usual' is no longer an option. Then we find that we have an endless capacity to find intelligent and different solutions.

Quiet Places Initiative

Gordon Hempton is a natural born listener. Known as the Sound Tracker®, he is an acoustic ecologist dedicated to capturing and preserving one of Earth’s most precious experiences on the verge of extinction: silence.

Kosmos Quarterly Spring 2019

“…all the gifts, seeded by our ancestors and evoked by the future ones, can pour through us. These gifts are not our personal property, nor meant for the separate self. They come through now for the sake of Life itself.” – Joanna Macy, The Community Awaiting Us/span> Keynote Convening CCC19 Dancing with Gaia…

Craig Burrows

Craig is a 30 year-old photographer based in Southern Californian and has been practicing photography since 2010, teaching himself through a combination of practice, online resources, and an academic background including physics. With respect to his portfolio, he is an eclectic photographer. The genre in which he comes closest to specializing is alternative-light photography. He has special…

Gaia Orion

Gaia Orion is a visionary artist that has gained international recognition by participating in many worldwide projects that are working toward constructive world change. She has exhibited in Paris, New York, San Francisco and Toronto as well as in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Bali. Gaia is also a creativity coach and a business coach. She is a mentor for anyone willing to ignite…

Diane Barker

Diane Barker is a photographer and artist based in Worcestershire, England. Born in what was historically a pub, Diane's "nomadic" roots trace back to the 70s as a hippie living in a camper van in America. It was also during that time her first encounter with the Tibetan lamas transpired in Wales. During the 1990s, a Buddhist boyfriend lured her into a voyage to India, which eventually led to her…

Two Poems

While you are reading this, trees are falling in the forest without you there to hear them fall which means, maybe, they’re not falling.

The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay

In this crisis to which we’ve brought ourselves, we can only change what is happening through transforming the way we imagine things. That happens through art. This is why I think stories and images are crucial if we’re to cope with our impending fate with kindness and dignity. The story may not actually be about our own survival, but it has to be about how we fit in.

A Vision for the World

The gift hidden in our unprecedented world crisis is an equally unprecedented opportunity. My vision of the world? My hope for the future? This topic sounds a bit big. Allow me to start small—say, with crows. They are my special friends.