Fall | Winter 2013

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High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace

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We are new humans with a new consciousness and capacity for peaceful and non-violent change. We realize that we must change ourselves to change the world.

Transforming A Dysfunctional Legal System

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I started law school in 1987. I was 29 years old and married with a blended family of seven kids at home. We were politically and socially active, making a difference in our community. My husband was sometimes arrested for civil disobedience and it seemed that there was always a family law issue.

Guardians of Future Generations

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"I dreamed that I was standing next to a young tree. It was the Tree of Life. One branche was dead. The tree was dying from the changing climate. I was charged with keeping it alive for future generations."

From Punitive to Restorative Justice

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Restorative justice is nothing new--global indigenous peoples and those in peripheral societies have practiced it for ages. It is critical to understand the essence of restorative justice as an opportunity for all involved, not as a forced system or means to an end.

World’s First Successful ‘Rights of Nature’ Lawsuit

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Setting the Stage In January of 2007, Richard and I went on a wonderful vacation to Vilcabamba, Ecuador, famous as […]

The Invisible Yet Existent Culture of Peace

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A new story is emerging. Humanity is the storyteller. The story line is ancient and the global community is right on time as it wakes up. The global community is appalled by many of its own creations and strives to take responsibility for creating a Culture of Peace.

Transforming Power: Impact, Partnership and the Tao of Wholesome Power

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“The world we live in is a whole and so, of course, are we—individually and collectively. So are every environment and situation we face. When we act as if we and they are separate from each other, wholeness creates ‘side effects’ that can be undesirable and ultimately catastrophic. On the other hand, when our exercise of power is in harmony with the reality of wholeness, wholeness evolves in harmony with us, including and supporting us. This conscious participation in co-created power of, by, and for the whole—this wholesome power—is key to creating the kind of lives and societies that are an ongoing delight to belong in.”

Fear of a Living Planet

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Does the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense […]

Enlivenment: A New Bios for our Relation to the Natural World and to Ourselves

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People often call for ‘changing the system’ and seek to reform the ‘free market’ approach that turns everything, including life […]

The Living Universe: Why Do We Need to Know Whether or Not the Universe is Alive?

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We shape our lives according to the way we view the world. Our perception and understanding of that world govern the decisions we make and the underlying motivations. People's outlook on the world has for centuries been dominated by the general view of the Universe as it is given by the science of physics.

The Rise of Citizen Science

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Imagine yourself discovering another Earth. Or identifying an unknown underwater species. Helping the blind to see. Finding a cure for […]

Building the Cloud: Hearing Gaia

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The coupling of electricity with our nervous system over a century and a half ago started the process of what the prescient media sage Marshall LcLuhan called 'the outering of our nervous system.' From the one-to-one communications technologies of the telegraph and telephone, to the one-to-many forms of broadcast radio and television, and the all-to-all global grids of the Internet and social media, we continue to grow more connected, more accessible and more stimulated.

Toward a Common Theory of Value | Part Five: Common Development

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The previous articles in this series considered how objective and subjective principles have been applied in economic thinking. We noted that the left hemisphere of the human brain is categorical and sequential in its objective construction of reality, building the edifice of knowledge up from fragments, piece by piece, to the larger system. By contrast, the right brain experiences the world as timeless Being, a great flowing network of subjective interconnection and unity, processing reality from the Whole to the Part.

Redefining the Development Paradigm: Redrawing Boundaries, Deepening Responses, Transforming Lives

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India’s challenge today is not one of natural resources. It is not about money, human capital, technology or legislation. It […]

New Global Governance is in the Making, and It Looks Good

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“If governance is the art of governing, then it is clear that governance is in crisis, at every level. The level at which governance is most often conceived—the nation state—is simply unworkable. International organizations lack legitimacy, are stuck by vested interests and are ruled by the majority. Nobody believes anymore in reforming the UN Security Council. What is striking is that most of the pillars of our society are under stress: family, trade unions, enterprises, political parties, universities, religion and the like.”

Collective Presencing – Part Four | The Circle of Creation: Building Capacity for Generative Collective Action in Service of Life

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This is Part Four of our Collective Presencing series. The earlier three articles in this series describe the new human capacity we are calling Collective Presencing. This article describes the journey to becoming a Circle of Creation--at least as far as the authors have travelled thus far, knowing that the horizon moves ever ahead as we take the next step.

Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer

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Chelsea Green Publishing April 2013, Review by Judy Wicks A few years after I started my restaurant, I hung a […]

MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System

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MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System, represents a culmination of ten years of work. Five of these years were spent doing research and analysis on how to present a fresh approach to economic development. What emerged was a whole systems, integrated model that places economic activity into an evolutionary framework that advances the field of bio-psychosocial development originally pioneered by psychologist Clare W. Graves. MEMEnomics pioneers the applications of Graves’ values- systems model and the work of his successor Don Beck into the long-established field of economics.

Caring for a World with a Soul

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Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Publisher: The Golden Sufi Center, July 1, 2013 There […]

Getting to Know the Neighbors

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Living Earth Television's (LETV) work is introducing neighbors around the world through documentaries, and I do that with film and with Kosmos Journal. The pages of Kosmos are often so rich and dense that I need to pause frequently when reading and viewing to just absorb the tumble of recognition, ideas and appreciation they generate. Documentary films often offer me the same richness of experience, insight and connection.

Love of Humanity Made Manifest

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Sometimes we live with a word for decades and consider that we know exactly what it means, what it refers to and how best to use it. I did not title this article "Philanthropy" because I imagined that readers might turn the page to avoid this conversation. I wonder how many of us know the real meaning of this word.