Kosmos Articles

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

	What is the Earth Charter? by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a vision of hope and a call to action. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Earth Charter by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	About the Spring | Summer 2012 Issue of Kosmos Journal by Nancy B. Roof		Issue Article Type
	One of the interesting realizations I had while having lunch with Monica Sharma recently was how the first consciousness changing pioneers developed skills and practices on an individual level to tap into our Wisdom Self and to go beyond ego. Now pioneering leaders, like Monica, are developing those same principles for groups. 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

	An Introduction to the Quilligan Seminars: Rebuilding our Beloved Commons by James Bernard Quilligan		Issue Article Type
	In reviewing the topics for The Emergence of a Commons-Based Economy, it’s clear that each of the presentations in this series is different. While each of the Quilligan Seminars is indeed unique, they are not discrete or unconnected segments. The greater thematic unity which interlinks them is essentially a “commons of the commons”. More than anything, it is a worldview which calls us to rebuild and restore our Beloved Commons as part of the world renaissance that has now begun. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Environmental Security for All by Reader Submissions:		Issue Article Type
	There is a term that seems to be on the global mind these days - environmental refugee. As we see more and more climate change related environmental disasters or natural disasters and subsequent environmental issues (such as Fukushima) the number of environmental refugees will only grow. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Reader Submission

	Financial Reform - The Vatican by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	“The world situation requires the concerted effort of everyone, a thorough examination of every facet of the problem – social, economic, cultural and spiritual. The Church, which has long experience in human affairs and has no desire to be involved in the political activities of any nation, ‘seeks but one goal: to carry forward the work of Christ under the lead of the befriending Spirit. And Christ entered this world to give witness to the truth; to save, not to judge; to serve, not to be served.’” Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Kosmos Global Ambassador Program by Stephanie Shorter		Issue Article Type
	Kosmos is pleased to announce our Global Ambassador program, a new outreach to educate and empower people to become socially engaged for the global common good. This small but growing group of volunteers—all international travelers in their careers—use our journal to start conversations and inspire others to contribute to the global commons movement. Much more than magazine distribution, this program is about sharing the hopefulness of a new world community. As you will see below, Ambassadors serve in their own unique ways, wherever their paths go. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2010 Kosmos

	Security in the Ever-Evolving Universe by Reader Submissions:		Issue Article Type
	In the Universe that is ever evolving and transcending, where all is coming into relationship with all, the experience and meaning of security is an ever-emerging one, involving deep mysteries and unknowns. In the past, security implied that there were needs to be provided for, conditions to be protected or warred against, boundaries or labels to be maintained (i.e. nationality, creed or caste and gender) or systems to be preserved. Security was the work of people often removed from the lives of people or systems they served. It had an element of staidness about it. What was the security of the past is now the insecurity of the present. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Reader Submission

	The Arab Spring and Global Security by Reader Submissions:		Issue Article Type
	A few days ago I stood once more on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt where the Arab Spring had hit six months before, beginning 25 December 2010, quickly after Tunisia's revolution took place. Although the hundreds of thousands were now absent from the square, a few thousand remained, tired, not quite triumphant, yet still expectant that the fruits beyond the revolution will be reaped. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Reader Submission

	The Widening Circle - Toward a Global Citizens Movement by The Widening Circle		Issue Article Type
	http://wideningcircle.org. In the Planetary Phase of Civilization, humanity and Earth have become a single community of fate. We are in the midst of a turbulent transition from the world that was to some form of global society, with no exit and no separate solutions for individuals, communities, or countries. The transition is generating a host of ominous transnational problems – climate change and ecosystem degradation, economic instability and geopolitical conflict, oppression and mass migration – that left unattended might well pull us toward a bleak tomorrow. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Quiet Flows Krishna by Reader Submissions:		Issue Article Type
	by Barbra Cohn Indian peasant woman wrapped in emerald citrine sari, crow black hair dusted with pollen and sand, walks barefoot on blistering clay highway to gather the leftovers of her life in the rice field she worked with husband, while boy child was strapped to her back. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Reader Submission

	Toward A Common Theory of Value | Part Two: Common Trust by James Bernard Quilligan		Issue Article Type
	This series of articles examines the meaning of value in economics. Through the lens of the commons, we hope to stimulate a rethinking of the goals, methods and conceptual structures of economic theory and its modes of action. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Greenkeeping Governance: Toward a Law of the Ecological Commons by David Bollier and Burns Weston		Issue Article Type
	At least since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we have known about humankind’s squandering of nonrenewable resources, its careless disregard of precious life species, and its overall contamination and degradation of delicate ecosystems. In recent decades, these defilements have assumed a systemic dimension. Lately we have come to realize the shocking extent to which our atmospheric emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threatens Planet Earth. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2012 Kosmos

	Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part One: Common Being by James Bernard Quilligan		Issue Article Type
	Riddle of the Commons: Does Property Have Properties? Thus begins an inquiry on the meaning of value in economic philosophy. This series of articles will attempt to reconceptualize the social and natural order of economics through an analysis of the commons—the natural, genetic, physical, social, cultural and intellectual resources which people manage by negotiating their own norms and rules. (For brevity’s sake, Part One uses the term ‘commons’ loosely to refer to both self-organized commons and unorganized common pool resources—a distinction which will be spelled out in subsequent articles.) The recurring theme in these writings is the creation of a commons-based economy which expresses a more inclusive type of value than in traditional economics. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2011 Kosmos

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