Call for Proposals | Kosmos 2017 Seed Grants “The New Activism”
Dear Applicant,
Kosmos is pleased to announce the third year of the Kosmos Seed Grant initiative. Seed Grants of $2,500 will be awarded in Spring 2017 to individuals or organizations working to advance social change using new and experimental approaches to break through cultural barriers.
Guidelines for applicants are as follows:
All Members of Kosmos Community are eligible to apply.…
Reflections on Transformative Education: Toward Peace Learning Systems
Global Transformation through Peace Learning Systems
Over the past 15 years, I have worked on peace education programs in communities in the US and abroad and have personally seen community members, teachers, and students from a diverse array of social backgrounds engage in the work of transformative education. Peace education strives to empower future generations to use “the capacity and…
Nancy Polend
Nancy Polend is a visionary social architect, facilitator, and regular gal whose ability to see and take people beyond the obvious, through the complexity, and beneath their differences has been empowering human systems of all shapes, sizes, and sectors create the future they want for over 20 years.
Her humor and talent for creating frameworks, tools, and experiences that make vague and…
Human Watershed: The Emerging Politics of Bioregional Democracy
The Crisis Downstream: Waiting For A Rainy Day
First, the bad news. Our global community no longer has the luxury of putting off its complex problems till a later time. Mounting data on Earth’s atmosphere confirm what is already known in daily life: the planet is warming and water is becoming less accessible.
Water scarcity is the result of climate change, diminished rainfall, overpopulation,…
Nature and Humanity as Source of Life, Living and Everyday Transformation
People are intimately tied to our natural environment. Our bodies are composed of water, we need clean air to breathe, and we need healthy and fertile soils to produce nutritious foods. Beyond that, nature has always been a source of inspiration and beauty for me. It shows me how to live. When I’m struggling with a situation in my life, I look at a river with its rapids followed by smooth glides…
Development in the Ecological Age
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if most people are connected to the Internet, and if, most crucially, per capita GDP is high, then most people would say you live…
John L. Petersen
President and Founder, The Arlington Institute
John L. Petersen is considered by many to be one of the most informed futurists in the world. He is best-known for writing and thinking about high impact surprises—wild cards—and the process of surprise anticipation. His current professional involvements include the development of sophisticated tools for anticipatory analysis and surprise…
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Spirit of Global Citizenship
In the Winter edition of Kosmos Quarterly we will be exploring what it means to be a Global Citizen. How can we move beyond platitudes and declarations, toward deep systemic transformation – new institutional designs and new ways of being in the world that reflect our highest hopes and respect nature’s boundaries? In what ways can we express the civic values of a…
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Nancy B. Roof, Chairman
Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: Global Transformation in Harmony with All Life, and President of Kosmos Associates, Inc. The mission of Kosmos is to identify and support systemic economic, political, social, environmental and personal transformation leading to the new planetary civilization. She is actively involved in the founding…