Reflective Approaches to Social Activism
In a world aflame with greed, corruption, inequality and environmental devastation, the quiet victories happening worldwide often go unnoticed. A rousing article by Rebecca Solnit about the worldwide explosion of Occupy focuses on the movement’s staying power and patience—patience that is required for long term systemic change.
Occupy is changing national debates, articulating the destructive…
Jasmine Rossi
Artist Statement
After a life in the heart of London, among the madness of Manhattan, and the eternal bustle of Rome, I longed for the serenity of nature.
The stunning beauty of the immense, vast, and wild southern tip of South America, known as Patagonia, overwhelmed me, and prompted a passion that was to change my life.
In 1995, I moved into a tiny cabin in a national park in Patagonia…
10 Steps to Becoming a Global Citizen
10 Steps to Becoming a Global Citizen
(from our partner—The Global Citizens Initiative)
There is an emerging world community to which we all belong. The growing interconnectedness among people, countries, and economies means that there is a global dimension to who we are. The most positive way of responding to this is by pursuing a path of global citizenship. Global citizens see ourselves…
What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen?
By Ron Israel and the Global Citizen's Initiative
UPDATED 10/9/18
There is an emerging world community to which we all belong!
The growing interconnectedness among people, countries, and economies means that there is a global dimension to who we are. The most positive way of responding to this is by pursuing a path of global citizenship. Global citizens see ourselves as part of an emerging…
Jerry White
Jerry White has dedicated his life to building resilience in individuals and communities affected by violent conflict. White lost his leg to a landmine explosion while hiking in Israel in 1984. It is his core belief that, with the right tools, everyone can rise above trauma and give back to their communities. His co-founding in 1995 of Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) led him to…
Stanimirka Milovanovic
When I first read about Nancy Roof’s work about 10 years ago I was immediately drawn to her ideas and felt I had to try to get in touch with her. I still remember thinking that this what Nancy was doing seemed almost impossible to have been achieved but there she was really doing it. I failed to establish the contact then but succeeded in subscribing for Kosmos and felt privileged to…
The Changing Nature of Human Security
Editorial
The world is in serious trouble and we care. When one billion of us do not have safe water to drink and one billion of us go hungry every day, it is time to ACT. It is time to act when degraded and eroding soil is destroying 38,610 square miles of productive land every year. Many of us left the solution of such travesties to our governments, only to discover that the political…
Elza S. Maalouf
Elza S. Maalouf is an Arab‐American futurist and cultural development specialist whose work is focused on cultural, business and political reform in the Arab world. She lectures widely in the West on the complexities of the Muslim world and widens the horizon of understanding of Western cultures in the East.
Elza is a former attorney and corporate executive. Her innovative approaches to…
Said E. Dawlabani
Said Elias Dawlabani is a cultural economist, public speaker, trainer and writer specializing in the Gravesian approach to value systems and cultural change. He is the author of the 2013 book MEMEnomics, The Next-Generation Economic System. His writings in the field of finance have been compared to those of Peter Lynch, Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet. His work has been translated to several…
Gary Braasch
Gary Braasch is a world caliber environmental photojournalist who creates remarkable images and documentation about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming. His images and assignment articles have been published by Time, LIFE, Discover, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and the United Nations among many others.
He received the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra…