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What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change

Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils. Sally Neas Apr 29, 2016

What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change

Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils. Sally Neas Apr 29, 2016

Beyond the NFL: A New Plan to Treat Brain Injuries For Women Escaping Abuse

Unlike players in the NFL, women who struggle with lifelong effects of concussions from abuse are rarely diagnosed. In Phoenix, scientists and advocates are working to change that. Reagan Jackson Apr 28, 2016

What Small Farms Need to Compete With Corporate Food

Most small farms have to follow the same rules as big corporate ones. In Maine, flexible food ordinances have increased the number of small farmers. Kate Stringer Apr 27, 2016
Beyond the NFL: A New Plan to Treat Brain Injuries For Women Escaping Abuse

Unlike players in the NFL, women who struggle with lifelong effects of concussions from abuse are rarely diagnosed. In Phoenix, scientists and advocates are working to change that.

Reagan Jackson Apr 28, 2016
What Small Farms Need to Compete With Corporate Food

Most small farms have to follow the same rules as big corporate ones. In Maine, flexible food ordinances have increased the number of small farmers.

Kate Stringer Apr 27, 2016
Portland Fast Food Workers Don’t Just Want a Raise—They Want a Union Too

Employees at Burgerville, a Pacific Northwest restaurant chain, are unionizing and demanding benefits. Even without their employer’s recognition, their union offers an alternative model for organizing low-wage workers.

Tamara Kneese Apr 29, 2016
How Can Southern States Increase Voter Access for Black Residents After DMV Closures?

When DMV closures threatened Black voter access in Alabama, the government launched a traveling ID service. But is it enough?

YES! Staff Apr 29, 2016
Still Saying YES!—20 Years of Solutions Journalism

Like many startups, YES! Magazine began with an energized small team, an idea we thought important, and a basement office. Twenty years later, we're stronger than ever.

Sarah van Gelder Apr 28, 2016

The Pragmatic Impacts of Sanders’ Big Dreams

Even with Tuesday’s campaign setbacks, Bernie Sanders’ pledge to make the country more equitable and sustainable is more realistic than some people are letting on. Sarah van Gelder Apr 27, 2016
How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values

As cooperative culture spreads into the tech world, Loomio is part of a new wave of entrepreneurs figuring out how to finance a more democratic, values-centered online economy.

Nathan Schneider Apr 26, 2016
Humanizing Heroin Addiction: Photos of the Real Lives of Users

Can more balanced representations of drug users spark discussions on how to solve North America’s heroin epidemic?

Aaron Goodman Apr 25, 2016
Happiness Inequality Is a Better Measure of Well-Being Than Income Inequality

Researchers say happiness reveals more about human welfare than standard indicators like wealth, education, health, or good government.

Kira M. Newman Apr 24, 2016
From the Current Issue

Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl

The future for suburbanites, who now have twice the carbon footprint of city dwellers, seems to be pointing backward to pre-automobile, train-based living. Erin Sagen Apr 25, 2016
A Sanders-Clinton Combined Strategy Could Boost Native Americans’ Quality of Life

To meet multifaceted needs in Indian Country, Sanders and Clinton should combine their economic proposals.

Jennifer Biess Apr 23, 2016
National Parks Are Used Mostly By Older White People. Here’s Why That Needs to Change

With its history of segregation, the Park Service has had a rocky relationship with race. But if youth of color don’t connect with the outdoors, who will be its future stewards?

Lornet ­­­­­­­­­­­­Turnbull Apr 22, 2016
Want to Hire a Worker-Owned Co-op? There’s an App for That

Coopify wants to bring a sense of community to the app-based booking world by connecting worker-owned cooperatives and other low-income task workers directly with consumers.

Michelle Stearn Apr 20, 2016

Earth Day Comic: How Salmon Feed the Forests

Each year, immense schools of migrating salmon bring nutrients from the ocean to Pacific Northwest rivers—literally feeding the trees. Here’s where humans come in. Jennifer Luxton Apr 22, 2016
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