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YES! Online May 2008
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Pangea Day imagesspacerPangea Day: May 10, 2008
Pangea Day seeks to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future. Join an extraordinary community of people who are coming together through the power of film. Learn more…
Jehane Noujaim: accepting the TED prize 2006 and launching Pangea DayspacerPangea Day unveiled
Visionary filmmaker, TED Prize Winner, and Pangea Day founder Jehane Noujaim unveils her inspiring wish—to change the world through the power of film. See her TED prize acceptance speech.
Pangea Day image: Kenyans sings the Indian anthemspacerImagine! Kenya sings for India
As part of Pangea Day, leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This anthem series does just that: Here a Kenyan choir sings the Indian national anthem.
Image from the Barefoot film: The First Rural Women Heroes of TombouctouspacerSolar power reaches Tombouctou
Two extraordinary, but very ordinary women have set an example for the whole of Africa, and demonstrated how the impossible is possible…
Plastic Bottles, 2007, 60x120 from Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Photo by Chris JordanspacerRunning the Numbers
Chris Jordan's images make the huge waste streams of our consumer culture visible in dazzling ways. See this photo essay from his Running the Numbers and Intolerable Beauty series.
Seattle Green Festival 2008spacerWhat’s No Longer Impossible?
Sarah Kuck caught up with visitors to the YES! Speaker's Corner at the Seattle Green Festival, and asked: What's possible now that you once thought impossible…?
Health Care graphic by YES! MagazinespacerNew Outlook On Health
Grace Lee Boggs investigates how we can create the kind of social ties that will make our lives more meaningful and therefore healthier.
Pete seeger singingspacerPete Seeger at Home
"If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things." See our exclusive Photo-Essay and watch a video excerpt of Sarah van Gelder's interview with Pete Seeger.
Madeline Weaver's design: 'Question'spacerCommunity Is No Cliché
The people of Burlington, VT “are better together.” See how a culture of engagement, and a cohesive civic infrastructure of connected people, organizations, and programs really does build community.
Climate Solutions: the SPRING issue of YES!
Bill McKibben. Photo by Channing Johnson for YES! MagazinespacerTake Action on Global Warming
Bill McKibben gives us our call to action: "We need a movement. We need a political swell larger than the civil rights movement…"
wind turbinesspacerDown-to-Earth Solutions
Buildings, electricity production, transportation, and food & forestry contribute the bulk of the greenhouse gases. But climate-friendly options are ready.
Photo by Davis AyerspacerYour Piece of the Sky
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do cap and trade. You’ll feel the difference in the weather—and in your wallet.
Horse-powered forestry. Photo courtesy of the Roanoke TimesspacerAppalachia—Down a Greener Road
A depressed region discovers the power of going green, one farmers' market at a time.
Also… Draft horses in forestry: a special story on the work of The Healing Harvest Forest Foundation.
Beyond Lightbulbs: How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 YearsBeyond Lightbulbs: Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Meet the Joneses: how does an average family go carbon-free in 10 years, without turning their lives upside-down. A decade from now, maybe the Joneses new way of life will be the American standard.
13 Best Energy Ideas13 Best Energy Ideas
Energy policies and technologies that can get us on the path toward a sustainable future (plus a few that won’t)
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