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David Korten talks about Agenda for a New Economy

The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know You Are Making a Difference

David Korten explains how we can help live the new economy that we need into being.

Better Than Facebook Photo courtesy of On the Commons

Better Than Facebook?

Fed up with Facebook's commercialism, four NYU students have created an open source, peer-to-peer alternative: Diaspora.

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Food in Dry Times

An old North Dakota farm is a laboratory for growing food when water runs short.

Raj Patel, photo by Jan Sturmann

A Call for a Democratic Economy

Raj Patel offers a stunning defense of democracy and a how-to guide for social justice activists of the next century.

Shannon Hayes

Meet the Radical Homemakers

How families are achieving ecological, social, and economic transformation ... starting under their own roofs.

Columns/Blogs

Listening Across the Divide

Ted Falcon bio pic 2How do we work with those who believe that theirs is the Only Way?

 

More Than a Mantra

Magaret Wheatley mug"We're all in this together"—even now, we can find strength in solidarity.



Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

Stacy MitchellWhy we can't let this financial reform bill be our only response to the economic crisis.


 

News & Analysis
Why the Fight for the Gulf is Also in Borneo
A proposed coal plant in Malaysia is provoking an international outcry.
Posted Jul 29, 2010
2010 a Tipping Point for Renewable Energy
100 days into the BP disaster, it's time to quit claiming that an economy based on fossil fuels is our only option.
Posted Jul 28, 2010
WikiLeaks: Pentagon Papers 2.0?
The WikiLeaks documents tell us what we already knew: This war isn't winnable. Can they help us stop it?
Posted Jul 27, 2010
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'I Love YES! It's The Story of Solutions.' Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff

 

3 Big Ideas to Make Water Last

 

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Departments

In Review

Common Ground in a Liquid City

Re-imagining our cities is the best chance we have to create prosperity, lower our carbon emissions, and save what’s left of the natural world.

Wild Comfort

Kathleen Dean Moore on the solace of nature.

YES! But How?

Step Away From the Plastic Bag

Our associate editor experiments with life after plastic bags.

Multimedia
Sarah van Gelder interviews David Korten

Bailouts Redefined: Interview with David Korten

How a New Economy can bail out both people and nature.

Madhu Prakash, photo by Doug Pibel

The Story of Lentils and Chicken

Madhu Suri Prakash shares secrets from her mother’s village kitchen.

City Repair intersection

City Repair

Should our towns and cities be built for cars or for people?

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Our Music Picks for the Summer

Musical inspiration while putting out the Water Solutions issue came from Horse Feathers, Natalie Merchant, and Rana Farhan.

film still from A Sea Change

A Sea Change

Imagine a world without fish.

The Thinker Cartoon

Enter the YES! Cartoon Competition

Submit your caption for our latest cartoon. The best captions will appear on our website and the very best get printed in the magazine.


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