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How Home Cooking Can Improve Your Health We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis. |
Fukushima: How Geeks Got Geiger Counters to the Masses Hundreds of ordinary people are contributing to a crowd-sourced effort to measure Fukushima's impact. |
Boulder Votes to Give Xcel Energy the Boot Why moving utilities from corporate to public control puts energy, dollars, and decisions into the hands of local communities. |
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Can this Small College in Maryland Pass the Fairest Wage Policy in US Academia? An initiative developed by staff, students, and faculty would tie the earnings of the school's highest-paid employees to those of the lowest. |
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The Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think What might history teach us about living more simple, less consumerist lifestyles? |
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Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it. |
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"Cowboys and Indians" Camp Together to Build Alliance Against Keystone XL At the Ponca Trail of Tears Spiritual Camp, tribal members and their ranchers are learning to understand each other as never before. |
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8 Courageous Things Harry Potter Fans Did to Fight Real-Life Dark Forces If Harry Potter were a real person, he’d fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry's fans have taken his values from the page to the real world. |
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"Beauty Feeds a Different Kind of Hunger": An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams "I used to ask the question, 'Am I an activist or a writer?' I don't ask that anymore. I am simply a human being engaged." |
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Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy New York City's new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda. A Year After Sandy, a Co-op Alliance Could Bring Jobs Back to the Rockaways Last year, Sandy massively disrupted of some of the East Coast’s neighborhood economies. But worker-owned cooperatives are creating jobs with real wealth and meaning. Can Eminent Domain Be Used to Avert a Foreclosure Mess? This California City Thinks So Governments usually use eminent domain powers to displace people. But one hardscrabble Bay Area city is going to the mat to do just the opposite—stabilize its economy and keep residents where they are. Nobel Prize? Meet the Economic Movement That Really Deserves Praise This week, the Nobel Prize for economics may have gone to three academics, but the real work of fixing our local economies was happening on the ground—as part of New Economy Week. |
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Money and Life: The Bright Side of the Money Crisis Is this “the most exciting time to be alive in human history”? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy. |
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James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade Sedat Pakay’s disarming photos of James Baldwin during his time in Turkey show a side of the great writer most of us have never seen. |
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... and other inspiration while putting together the Spring 2013 issue of YES! |
