Spring | Summer 2009
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in this issue |
Kosmos
qasim sabti
evan leeson
delair shaker
amy rathgeb
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| Spring | Summer 2009 | |
| Editorial Read now |
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| Global Transformation and World Community | |
| Slouching Towards Global Transformation | Waking Up in Time | |
| James O’Dea Read now | |
| Cycles of Transformation | Day of the Citizens of the World | |
| Rene Wadlow | |
| Journey Toward World Community | |
| Abdul Aziz Said | |
| Transforming Self and Culture | |
| The Plight of Iraqi Artists | |
| Dahr Jamail | |
| Tale of the Phoenix | |
| Qasim Sabti | |
| Harvesting the Wisdom of the Kosmos | Conversations that Matter | |
| Helen Titchen Beeth and George Por | |
| InterSpiritual Transformation | |
| Ed Bastian, Cynthia Bourgeault, Rami Shapiro, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Swami Atmarupananda |
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| Awakening the Energies of Love | |
| Anne Hillman Read now | |
| Australian Aboriginal Worldview | |
| Tex Skuthorpe and Karl-Eric Sveiby | |
| SPECIAL FEATURE | THE COMMONS | |
| The Commons and Integral Capital | |
| James Bernard Quilligan Read now |
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| Maine Activists Protect the Commons | |
| Jamilla El-Shafei | |
| Changing Systems and Structures | |
| The Many Dimensions of Change | |
| Don Beck | |
| Media | Journalism that Matters | An Emerging Cultural Narrative | |
| Peggy Holman | |
| Culture | Edge | |
| Lewis Marshall | |
| Religion | Religions Today | An Integral Perspective | |
| Corey deVos | |
| Women | As Our World Re-Shapes Itself | |
| Aster Patel | |
| Economics | Beyond Bailouts | |
| Jordan B. MacLeod Read now | |
| Education | Shimmers from the Shoal | Global Sustainability | |
| Eric Schneider | |
| Business | Reorganizing the Future | |
| Jan W. Lee Martin | |
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The Many Dimensions of Change
Article
Change, for sure, is the topic of the day. That’s easy to say. Butchange ‘from what and to what?’ I ask. Add ‘how and by whom?’and then perhaps we can begin to talk some sense, even in these days of nonstop news cycles and naïve but well-meaning mantras clamoring for ‘change.’
Maine Activists Protect the Commons
Article
Communities in Maine have been engaging in a struggle to protect their groundwater resources from the multinational corporation Nestlé Waters N.A., the largest food and beverage company in the world. Nestlé, which is in the business of mining water to fill plastic bottles for their labels such as Poland Springs, seeks to expand its business by increasing the number of wellheads throughout the state. It is pumping millions more gallons of spring water from aquifers each day.
Yes: We: Can:
Article
YES: There is power in the word ‘yes’. ‘Yes’ affirms our commitment. ‘Yes’ focuses us, strengthens us, enables us to move mountains. Ambivalence, hesitation, fear and apathy, by contrast, foster the status quo.
Birthing Planetary Civilization
Article
These critical times offer unprecedented opportunities to make the aspirations of billions a reality—where the quality of life matters, where there is human solidarity, reverence for nature and moral leadership—and a world of hope for each and every living being.
Awakening the Energies of Love
Article
At a national professional conference thirty years ago, I stood before a hand-painted poster that so captivated me, I wanted it the way a child wants a treasure found at the beach. Since then, that sheet of newsprint has hung where I see it every day. The paint is faded and the paper worn, but Teilhard de Chardin’s message is timeless.
Beyond Bailouts | How a Circulation Charge Can Help Save and Transform Global Finance
Article
The global financial crisis has created tremendous uncertainty about the future prospects of human society. Very few people saw it coming and even fewer, if any, can say with much degree of certainty what will happen next. National governments are currently injecting trillions of dollars into their financial systems and the broader economy simply to cushion the fall of equity prices, home values and employment rates.
The Commons and Integral Capital
Article
The global economic crash is very big news. But what the media headlines and reports do not mention is how deeply this crisis is rooted in our history. During the past several centuries, businesses and government have become enmeshed in a single system. State capitalism now exists in virtually every sovereign nation.
Slouching Towards Global Transformation | Waking up in Time
Article
Great changes are blowing through the world: it is, as the ancients understood, “all things change.” Yet even the Greek philosophers would have been more than a little startled to witness our current planetary hyper-acceleration. Five thousand years ago humans were carving their best wisdom in words and symbols into rocks