Kosmos Articles

Please note: The first articles listed are Feature Articles, followed by all articles in alphabetical order.

	Book Review: The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market & State by Leo Burke		Issue Article Type
	If I were to be marooned on a desert island and could take along only two commons-related books, they would be Elinor Ostrom’s 1990 classic, Governing the Commons, and David Bollier and Silke Helfrich’s The Wealth of the Commons. This remarkable anthology of seventy-two essays by authors from six continents represents a milestone in the commons literature. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Charter for Engaged Spirituality in the 21st Century by Kosmos Journal		Issue Article Type
	Scholars of religion point to “the Axial Age” (roughly the first millennium BCE) as the period of the dawn of the great classical religions that we know today. These days, it’s often suggested that we have entered a second great “turning on the religious axis,” a Second Axial Age. If the first brought the individual to the fore, the latter shifts our focus to the global dimension of ethical, religious, and spiritual awareness and action. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Peacekeeping as a Commons Activity by Rolf C. Carriere		Issue Article Type
	All forms of military peacekeeping are quintessential interventions of the world’s nation-state system, and by definition none could therefore qualify as a commons activity, even if its aims were entirely humanitarian. Such actions produce public, not commons goods. Even unarmed civilian peacekeeping, the way it is currently carried out by a few dozen NGOs worldwide, cannot be regarded as a commons activity, although it has some features consistent with commons practice and values. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Kosmos

	The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation by David Bollier		Issue Article Type
	Let me start with a bit of wisdom I once picked up from Thomas Berry, a historian of cultures who has said, “The universe is the communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.” This epigraph encapsulates the monumental shift that I believe we are undergoing as we move into a new kind of cultural if not economic reality. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2008 Kosmos

	What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen? by Ronald C. Israel		Issue Article Type
	At The Global Citizens’ Initiative we say that a “global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.” Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen? (Serbian Translation) by Ronald C. Israel		Issue Article Type
	U našoj organizaciji 'Pokret gradjana sveta' (The Global Citizens' Initiative – u daljem tekstu se koristi engleska skraćenica: GCI), mi obično kažemo da je 'gradjanin sveta «neko ko sebe doživljava pripadnikom jedne svetske zajednice u zečetku, čije delovanje doprinosi onim vrednostima i delovanju za koje se opredelila ova nastajuća svetska zajednica.» Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Empowering Public Wisdom: An Excerpt by Tom Atlee		Issue Article Type
	The following is the first installment of Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics, available from EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	The Healing Logic of the Commons by David Bollier		Issue Article Type
	Economics is the science of generating wealth. The only problem is that it is interested only in a certain kind of wealth—wealth that comes encased in private property rights and has a price attached to it. This standard economic narrative doesn’t have much to say about the great stores of value that don’t have price tags. How much is the Earth’s atmosphere worth? What about the human genome? Fresh water supplies? Our inheritance of scientific knowledge and culture? Parks and open spaces? The Internet? Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Kosmos

	TWC Dialogue: Strengthening the Circles by The Widening Circle		Issue Article Type
	A polycentric campaign to catalyze a global movement. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	When Will Ordinary People Rise Up? How a United Voice of the Public Could Transform the World by Adam Parsons		Issue Article Type
	Public uprisings and mass occupations have become a significant force for change on the world stage since 2011, as evidenced in the Middle East revolutions and Occupy protests across North America and Europe. This essay explores the nature of this new social actor, which can be seen as the latest expression of the ‘people’s voice’ – a phenomenon also witnessed in the peace, justice and environmental movements of recent decades. Recognising that this collected voice of engaged citizens is acutely aware of the need for world reconstruction and renewal, the question is whether the growing power of the people’to challenge the immense forces of preed and control that stand in the way of transformative change. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	CAUN Submission for Rio+20 by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	A Commons Based Approach to Creating a Sustainable "Green" Economy and Implementing Sustainable Development shall be developed at all levels of government so that all stakeholders can participate actively in developing, managing, and maintaining, and can then share equitably in the usage and benefits coming from resources that all need to survive and thrive and that must be held in common by the community at large, be it local, regional or global. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	The Oneness Declaration: Sixteen Hallmarks of the New Consciousness by Ervin Laszlo		Issue Article Type
	THE ONENESS DECLARATION: Sixteen Hallmarks of the New Consciousness, by Ervin Laszlo with Gyorgyi Szabo Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Time for Democracy 2.0? The Launch of the Manifesto for a Global Democracy by Kosmos Journal		Issue Article Type
	After decades of democratization across Eastern Europe and Latin America and now the democratic elections taking place in countries like Egypt and Libya in the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions – one could be forgiven for thinking that the world is fast becoming a remarkably democratic place. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Anne Leonard and the Commons by Jay Walljasper		Issue Article Type
	Annie Leonard weaves commons sense, hard facts, witty animation and an engaging “everywoman” narrator role to illuminate complex problems that threaten the commons, and offer promising solutions. Annie Leonard is one of the most articulate, effective champions of the commons today. Her webfilm The Story of Stuff has been seen more than 15 million times by viewers. She also adapted it into a book. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Community Supported Industry by Schumacher Center for New Economics		Issue Article Type
	Building a responsible movement for a new economy will require planning how to create new jobs without increased growth. One approach is a strategy of import replacement, with more labor intensive, smaller batch production, transported over shorter distances. The goal would be to create more jobs, but not more "stuff," with a smaller carbon footprint overall. This may be an ambitious objective, but it is necessary if we are to transition to an economic system that is both equitable and sustainable. Read Article		Other Articles Other

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