Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS SUMMER 2021  > STAFF AND ADVISORS Staff and Advisors Founder and Editor Emeritus NANCY B. ROOF Editor RHONDA FABIAN Guest Editor ALNOOR LADHA Webmaster | Art Director KAREN ANDERSEN Associate Editors CATALINA LASSEN RROWAN BABER Kosmos Associates Board of Directors NANCY B. ROOF, Chair TARA STUART RHONDA FABIAN, Vice Chair, Treasurer JUDY WICKS JERRY BABER Poetry Editor CAROLYN MARTIN…

Reconnecting Our Children to Nature

To care for the earth, one must feel bonded to it. Many do not. Nature immersion from a young age avoids this ‘nature deficit disorder’ that is now rampant among children and adults in the USA.

Glacier, Elder, Teacher

Many think of Antarctica as an alien place, empty and devoid of life. But Antarctica is a living place and points to the mystery of what it means for bodies—humans, planets, glaciers—to be alive, entangled, kin.

How to Be a Soil Keeper

The practice of soil keeping provides individuals committed to realizing a just society with a compelling basis for imagining their work and recognizing the interdependencies between people, place, and planet.

The Wonder of It All

Let us consider Earth and the community of planets as seeds broadcast into a field – in this case, a solar field. Just as plant seeds can find themselves in locations that are too dry or too hot or too cold for sprouting, so most of the planets in the solar field landed in conditions unfavorable for growth. Only Earth was in a promising situation for germination.