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| spring | summer 2011 | |
| Editorial Read now |
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| SHARING POWER | |
| Imagine all the People | Advancing a Global Citizens Movement | |
| Paul Raskin Read now |
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| The Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagination | |
| Walden Bello | |
| Egypt, Transformation and Signs of a Planetary Culture | |
| Jeremy Johnson | |
| TOWARD A CULTURE OF SHARING | |
| The New Sharing Economy | |
| Latitude 42 and Shareable Magazine | |
| A Journey to Sharing | |
| Neal Gorenflo | |
| GLOBAL SHARING | |
| Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis | |
| Tom Atlee | |
| Sharing Cultures | Living the World | |
| Tara Stuart | |
| Sharing the World’s Resources | |
| Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons | |
| THE COMMONS: PERSPECTIVES ON SHARING | |
| All That We Share | An Interview with Jay Walljasper | |
| by Michel Bauwen and Neal Gorenflo | |
| Paul M. Davis | |
| The Spirit of the Commons | |
| Jim Kenney Read now |
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| The State of Free Culture 2011 | |
| Felix Stalder | |
| SPECIAL FEATURE | |
| The Failed Metaphysics Behind Private Property: Sharing our Commonhood |
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| James Bernard Quilligan Read now |
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| Our Common Origin: The Universe Story and Planetary Civilization | |
| Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker | |
| PSYCHOLOGICAL | SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF SHARING | |
| Reflections on Building a House of Wisdom | |
| Christopher Bamford | |
| Presencing: Nondual Sharing | |
| Mushin Schilling | |
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Imagine All the People: Advancing a Global Citizens Movement
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How to change the world? Those concerned about the dangerous drift of global development are asking this question with increasing urgency. Dominant institutions have proved too timorous or too venal for meeting the environmental and social challenges of our time. Instead, an adequate response requires us to imagine the awakening of a new social actor: a coordinated global citizens movement (GCM) struggling on all fronts toward a just and sustainable planetary civilization.
Sharing the World’s Resources
Article
As the 21st Century unfolds, humanity is faced with a stark reality. Following the world stock market crash in 2008, people everywhere are questioning the unbridled greed, selfishness and competition that has driven the dominant economic model for decades. The old obsession with protecting national interests, the drive to maximise profits at all costs, and the materialistic pursuit of economic growth has failed to benefit the world’s poor and led to catastrophic consequences for Planet Earth.
Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis (Serbian)
Article
U životu se pridružujemo raznim ljudima i priklanjamo raznim konceptima – nekim prošlim, nekim sadašnjim i ili budućim – zajedno deleći uticaj koji imamo na sve što nas okružuje. U tome nismo ni zašta krivi niti smo potpuno nevini. Pre bi se reklo da smo svesno ili nesvesno deo svega oko nas. I to baš ovde i sada. Sve što radimo je važno. Naša svest o tome je važna. Jer mi igramo ulogu u Životu Svega.
A Journey to Sharing
Article
The latest chapter of my life began in the parking lot of a warehouse near Brussels Airport in Belgium one sunny Saturday afternoon in 2004. At the time, I was working for one of the largest global transportation companies in the world on a multi-billion dollar merger integration project. In a strange twist of fate, I was actually working indirectly for the German government who had bought the American company where I worked. I was commuting between San Francisco and Brussels spending an alternating three weeks in each.
The Spirit of the Commons
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Long ago, the ‘commons’ simply meant the place we villagers shared and the resources of which we all partook. Here we pastured our small flocks, gathered herbs and mushrooms, and hunted game. And we were protected by an unspoken and unwritten understanding. No individual or group could draw down the resources of the commons to the detriment of the community. It was a simple but binding covenant.
Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis
Article
We join with everyone and everything—past, present and future —in sharing our influence on what happens. We are neither guilty nor innocent. Rather, we are consciously or unconsciously involved in everything. Right here and right now. Our actions matter. Our awareness matters. Because we are a factor in the Life of Everything.
The Universe Story and Planetary Civilization
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As we see our present interconnected global challenges of widespread environmental degradation, climate change, crippling poverty, social inequities, and unrestrained militarism, we know that the obstacles to the flourishing of life's ecosystems and to genuine sustainable development are considerable.
The Failed Metaphysics Behind Private Property: Sharing our Commonhood
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Garrett Hardin is often cited for his 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” In this classic critique of common property management, Hardin gives the example of herders grazing their cattle on a shared parcel of land. He observes that these individual herdsmen, acting out of self-interest, will put more and more cattle in the pasture.
Spirituality and the Global Commons
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Long ago, the 'commons' simply meant the place we villagers shared and the resources of which we all partook. Here we pastured our small flocks, gathered herbs and mushrooms, and hunted game. And we were protected by an unspoken and unwritten understanding. No individual or group could draw down the resources of the commons to the detriment of the community.
Sharing the World’s Wealth and Power
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We chose ‘Sharing the World’s Wealth and Power’ as the theme of Kosmos and are thrilled by the vitality, depth and breadth that our contributors and readers offered. They shared multiple perspectives and identified differences in the quality of sharing, but also addressed different scales of sharing from individual to community, nation, planet and ultimately to the Kosmos.