Living Earth

Like Water and Wind | Resisting Massive Offshore Energy Projects in the Pacific Northwest

Journal Article

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.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 5 By Erica Shugart

Reestablishing Kinship with All Life in a Time of Chaos

Journal Article

"This powerful being, so seldom seen by most of us, leaves us breathless. I look at the faces, each one with huge smiles of pure joy. “Did you see that? Did you see that?” The sky, the sea, the birds, the humpbacks, all create a symphony of beauty and connection that captures us fully and completely. Everything exists only in this time, this place."

Published in Volume 24 Issue 4 By Leah Rampy

Wealth as Responsiveness to Earth Wisdom

Journal Article

A Lakota elder challenges the prevailing Western notions of ownership and wealth by advocating for a return to the holistic understanding of existence found in Indigenous cultures. He emphasizes the importance of unlearning Western ideologies of possession and relearning Indigenous ways of being, which prioritize community, reciprocity, and harmony with the Earth.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 3 By Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Worldviews Conjured by Words

Journal Article

Do we have access to words and languages that are life-enhancing, that awaken our consciousness to an animate Earth and our place in a living cosmology? Do the words we choose, and the order in which we string them together, depict the world as a web of sacred systems with agency, or instead, tragically, as a vault of commodities and dead-matter resources for human use?

Published in Volume 24 Issue 2 By Osprey Orielle Lake

Summoned by the Earth | A Story of Healing and Protection

Journal Article

Tasked with an ancient Tibetan practice, Cynthia Jurs embarked on a monumental mission: to carry Earth Treasure Vases filled with prayers and holy offerings and bury them in places around the world for healing. Her book, "Summoned by the Earth," chronicles her incredible journey. A Kosmos interview and book excerpt.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 2 By Cynthia Jurs

Climate Reports

Journal Article

The power and abundance of our Earth can never be overstated; what is commonly overlooked is humanity's exploitation and neglect of its own life source.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Victoria Price

Green Medicine

Journal Article

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Michael O’Brien

The Prophecy

Journal Article

Through his stunning work, Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro challenges us to examine issues of fashion, race, consumerism and exploitation.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Fabrice Monteiro

Nourishment

Journal Article

During the blink of an eye we call a lifetime, change transforms us. Change forces us to see Earth and our place in the cosmos in new ways.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Fred Provenza

A Tale of Two Pipelines

Journal Article

Malinda | We came together as a community, saying to the corporation, Williams Partners, "We're not going to stand by and let you destroy our land. We will stand between you and the land if we have to."

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Victoria Price