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Jonathan Rowe was an editor at the Washington Monthly magazine and a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor. He contributed to Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, American Prospect, Adbusters, Yes! and a host of other publications. He cofounded the organization On the Commons. He was a Nadar's Raider and for several years worked for U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan and on the staff of the Washington, D.C. city council. A resident of the San Francisco Bay area, Jonathan passed away in 2011. Peter Barnes is the cofounder and former president of Working Assets Long Distance and is currently a senior fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute in Point Reyes Station, California. He was formerly Washington correspondent for Newsweek and west coast correspondent for The New Republic. Peter is the author of several books and his articles have appeared in numerous publications. Author Residence: Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area) Foreword Author Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. Afterword Author David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategy Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute.
This elegant book is a wonderful introduction to the originality of thought, clarity of expression, and humanity of vision that made Jonathan Rowe so respected by those who knew him. It will change the way you think about economic, environmental and social problems and how to solve them. -- James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Jonathan Rowe describes the emerging movement to protect the vast commonwealth owned by the people. Gird yourself to see nature and human ingenuity in a very different light. Then open these pages and a whole new world will come into focus. --Ralph Nader There is an economics of common wealth. Common wealth can and must be managed. That is Jon Rowe's gift to us. --George Lakoff, Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley and author of Don't Think of an Elephant It's not too much to say that our future as a species requires grasping the ideas in this book. --from the foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Jonathan Rowe's work offers a stunningly original vision that brings new depths of common sense and moral vision to the economic and social crises of our world. Who knew that there could be such a marriage of hope and hard-hitting clarity! --Jacob Needleman, author of An Unknown World Read this book as though you were opening a treasure chest. It transcends our stale left-right debates and reveals the wealth available to all of us if we just recognize and protect it. --Sarah van Gelder, executive editor, YES! Magazine I've met a lot of people in my life, but none quite like my friend Jonathan Rowe. He was a unique and original thinker who constantly challenged our prevailing ideas of progress. -- Former U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan This brilliant book by a wonderful man we lost too soon illuminates the essential question of our politics going forward: are we all in this together? Jonathan R
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