The Illusion of Individualism | Breaking Free
By Till Leinen
What does it mean to truly acknowledge our interconnectedness? In my experience, it involves not just an intellectual, but also an emotional process. Facing the reality of the part we’re playing in the larger organism of life can be both challenging and beautiful.
It’s Time for Beloved Community Circles
By John Bell
Beloved Community Circles is a network of small groups of 5-12 people, geographically local to each other, who make three commitments: to engage in spiritual practice and healing together so that healing and development are core; to come to care deeply for each other’s well-being; and to participate in mindful action of the group’s choosing.
Deschooling Dialogues | Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa Andreotti
DESCHOOLING DIALOGUES
Episode 7 – Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa Andreotti
Alnoor Ladha | Welcome to the Deschooling Dialogues. This podcast is a co-creation between Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal. Culture Hack Labs is a not-for-profit advisory that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. You can learn more@culturehack.io.…
Guided by Nature
featured photo by Michael Krahn
This Editorial precedes Volume 24, Issue 5 of Kosmos. Scroll down to access featured content.
Dear Kosmos Reader,
Modernity and Nature have reached a reckoning. In the over-developed world, many of us mourn the Earth’s losses, yet feel unable to break free of modernity’s grip. This dependency impacts everything, from the food we eat to the ways we work,…
The End of Human Supremacy
The healing of the world will be created through the cooperation of everyone who lives on Earth...The Earth knows how to heal the Earth better than anyone. Remembering to listen to all the beings of nature that are not only asking for help but also offering their wise medicine will be the long-awaited end of human supremacy.
When Wolves Returned to Yellowstone – Twenty-five Years On
How can it be that the return of wolves could somehow alter Yellowstone’s rivers and streams? Or that the presence of wolves would result in an increase in songbirds or amphibians? No one saw these things coming. Though still debated, the concept of the “trophic cascade” offers one explanation of what has transpired.
Like Water and Wind | Resisting Massive Offshore Energy Projects in the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Ocean is the largest wilderness on the planet, home to millions of species. Life is most abundant near the shore: undersea reefs, kelp forests, seabirds, and whale migrations. Yet from Northern California to Alaska, the coast of the Pacific Northwest is increasingly threatened by industrial-scale offshore energy projects.
One Home Journey Begins
One Home Journey Begins
By Alexander Schieffer
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The “One Home Journey 2024-2030 – 7 Years for 7 Generations”
takes off on International Peace Day, the 21st of September 2024
The One Home Journey starts its epic quest to every country in the world for an inclusive and…
Nature’s Guide to Ending Our Diet Wars
Can we agree to re-integrating plants and animals as they were evolved to live together? We can do this by promoting integrated organic farms, as well as by regreening desertified land. The clear energy efficiency of doing so will actually mitigate climate change much better than simply going vegan—and going vegan will still be just as available an option, side by side with other diets.
Haiti’s ‘Sin’ of Resistance
By Rann Miller
"Numerous reports and pictures of what’s happening in Haiti would have one believe that the Haitian people are incapable of running their own country and that an intervention from the “international community” is necessary. However, clarity comes by way of understanding history; history explains why, as Frederick Douglass said, Haiti has not yet been forgiven."