David Bollier

David Bollier is an American activist, scholar, and blogger who is focused on the commons as a new/old paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. The commons is as old as the human race but newly discovered, too, as the Internet, open source software, alternative currencies, and platform co-operatives. Bollier pursues his commons scholarship and activism as Director of the…

Honoring Commons-based Circuits of Value

​It is becoming clear that our path beyond the pandemic, climate change, social inequality and much else will require some serious social and political transformations. But to navigate a reliable path forward, we must learn how to protect forms of value that cannot be expressed through price or created through markets.

The Web of Meaning

Jeremy Lent | What I call animate intelligence, and Earth wisdom, is a very similar take on the same thing, which is this recognition that life itself has spent billions of years here on Earth, evolving ways of doing things and being healthy as part of bigger ecosystems, and showing incredible intelligence.

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS WINTER 2018  > STAFF AND ADVISORS Staff and Advisors Founding Editor NANCY B. ROOF Editor RHONDA FABIAN Webmaster | Art Director KAREN ANDERSEN Business Manager SUSAN INGERSOLL Associate Editor VICTORIA PRICE Kosmos Associates Board of Directors NANCY B. ROOF, Chair TARA STUART RHONDA FABIAN, Vice Chair, Treasurer STEPHANIE SHORTER JUDY WICKS JERRY BABER Editorial Circle, Winter 2018…

The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene

Rambunctious garden: Red plastic bags and a lone poppy turn the untended lot between two Berlin traffic lanes into a contemporary wasteland. Key Concepts The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in ecology and economy are responsible for our failure to protect aliveness in our world. The challenge of the…

Burns Weston

Retired from full-time teaching on The University of Iowa law faculty in May 1999, Professor Weston began his legal career in 1961 with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1966, after two years as a Sterling Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Yale Law School, he joined The University of Iowa College of Law and since then has served as…

Transforming Institutions

A letter to you, Twice a year I have the opportunity to connect with you and to express my gratitude to those who have inspired and uplifted me on this long journey toward planetary harmony and wholeness. Although I have not met many of you in person, I think of you often, knowing we are resonating to the same note. Many of you are designing and crafting exciting projects and exploding…