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“For the most part, advocates for change have worked within the current system of political economy,” says Gus Speth, a former adviser to Presidents Carter and Clinton, onetime administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the recently retired dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who has emerged as one of the new-economy movement’s leading figures. “But in the end,” Speth declares, “this approach will not succeed when what is needed is transformative change in the system itself.”

Rather than reforming broken systems or rebelling to overthrow them, we are creating a new civilization that will make the old system obsolete. Gar Alperovitz (new economist) calls this third way “evolutionary reconstruction.”

In this section we will be offering articles from the “evolutionary reconstructionists” who are leading us towards the emerging new civilization. They have worked at the margins of society until now.

As the worldwide citizen uprisings of the 99% explode the dichotomy between the old and new is becoming clear in every field of endeavor, including governance, economics, media, science, technology, ecology, education, religion and art.

This section will include comprehensive articles that reflect an emerging vision of the whole. Our goal is to be selective in our choices so that instead of reading dozens of articles on a subject, the main ideas are condensed into the few.

Recommended websites:
www.neweconomicsinstitute.org
www.neweconomics.org.

	The Future of Leadership for Sustainability-Part Two by Barrett C. Brown		Issue Article Type
	I recently met with the Chief Operating Officer from one of the largest environmental NGOs in the world. Their latest global strategy drives transformative change in landscapes, river networks, seascapes and policy across 30+ countries. Achieving it would mean significant steps toward global sustainability. He noted that the biggest limiting factor to executing the strategy is leader development. What kind of leaders do they need? Read Article		Spring | Summer 2013 Kosmos

	The Future of Leadership for Sustainability – Part One by Barrett C. Brown		Issue Article Type
	What if we could create an unprecedented flourishing of humanity and nature? What type of leaders and change agents would we need to become in order to cultivate a world far beyond mere sustainability? In this article I report on findings that offer initial insights into the future of leadership. It’s an approach in which we learn to express powerful, latent capacities that may be crucial togetting us out of the trouble we’re in and creating a better world. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	Book Review: Integral City | Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive by Marilyn Hamilton		Issue Article Type
	Integral Cities is a tour de force: for the first time we find a truly holistic approach being taken to a fragmented, over-specialized subject. In a world where over half of the population lives in a city, and where the front-lines of the battle against climate change must be fought and won, what could be more timely than a guide to creating thriving cities? Read Article		Fall | Winter 2008 Kosmos

	An Open Letter to the Young People of the World by Ervin Laszlo		Issue Article Type
	You, the young people of the world, are the movers and shakers, the music makers—the most privileged people who ever walked the Earth. For the first time in history, one generation—your generation—holds the key to the greatest challenge our species has faced since it proudly named itself homo sapiens. This is the challenge of change—of profound, timely, and conscious change. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Transformational Leadership in the Arab Region by Khadija Moalla		Issue Article Type
	On November 26, 2010, HE Mr. Joseph Diess, the President of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, delivered to me the world renowned 3rd Annual Global South-South Development Award for the CHAHAMA initiative (Network of Multi-Faith Based Organizations in response to HIV). Receiving this award affirmed to me that large scale change in the Arab region depended on the active engagement of religious leaders, the guardians of values and cultural norms. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Financing the Global Sharing Economy by Kosmos Journal		Issue Article Type
	A report by Share The World’s Resources demonstrates how governments could mobilise over $2.8 trillion each year to bolster the global sharing economy and prevent life-threatening deprivation, reverse austerity measures and mitigate the human impacts of climate change. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Strategies for a New Economy Conference by Susan Witt		Issue Article Type
	On June 8-10, hundreds of economists, academics, citizens, and public-policy experts will gather on the campus of Bard College at the Strategies for a New Economy conference to forge a new consensus for how to create a thriving economy for humanity within planetary limits. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Standing in My Power: Becoming a Fearless Dean by Dorrie K. Fontaine		Issue Article Type
	The serpentine wall was built by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia nearly two hundred years ago. Only one brick thick, it takes its resilience from the curvature of the wall, needing only one brick sitting beside and supporting one another. Resilience is essential for health care providers as well. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	A Nobel Prize for Business by David Cooperrider		Issue Article Type
	“One thing was clear from all the buzz after the prototyping session: this Nobel-like prize for business as an agent of world benefit will be so much more than a prize,” David tells Axiom News. “It will be a world-changing global learning process, spreading and scaling ‘up-building’ and ‘up-worthy’ news, helping create a new grand narrative about the exponential rise of good business for creating a sustainability + flourishing world.” Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Advanced Political and Sustainability Leadership through Integral Theory by Barrett C. Brown		Issue Article Type
	Briefing for the Institute for Democracy and Sustainability São Paulo, Brazil, January 24, 2012 Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Book Review: Sacred Economics | Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Mary Beth Steisslinger		Issue Article Type
	Is a more beautiful world possible? Many of us dream it is, and Charles Eisenstein’s latest book, Sacred Economics, shows that it’s possible and even probable. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2012 Kosmos

	The End of the Classroom by Kosmos Journal		Issue Article Type
	From LeMonde, November 14, 2012 - "And the window panes return to sand/The ink returns to water/The desks return to trees...": pictured as a schoolboy's daydream by French poet Jacques Prévert in Page of Writing, in 1945, this process of physical breakdown is now becoming a reality. The disintegration of what seemed to be the very heart of the school–the classroom– is underway. Assaulted from all sides, its walls are collapsing Read Article		Other Articles Other

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