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11 Years After Her Death, This 23-Year-Old Peace Activist Keeps Inspiring Us Rachel Corrie's passion for peace lives on in her writings.
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Why Boston's Tap Water Tastes So Good The secret ingredient in Boston's prize winning tap water? Forest conservation. |
Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher on Anger, Love, and Sacrifice Overcoming generational anger to find the courage we need. |
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This Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Baltimore’s Trash Per Day The Inner Harbor Water Wheel is proving to be an effective answer to the city's water pollution problem. |
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Paris Launched a Kid-Friendly Bike Share. Could the U.S. Be Next? The city's mayor says the move will boost cycling in decades to come, creating a greener and more sociable city. |
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The Eerie Beauty of Landscapes Devastated by Industry Edward Burtynsky documents the environmental effects of oil extraction through striking landscape photography. |
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Photo Essay: First Nations Take Their Last March Through Canada's Dystopian Tar Sands Organizers agreed that the annual marches have helped raise awareness about the mining project. But their work is far from done. |
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Red and Blue States Agree on Taxing Corporations More (And Lots of Other Stuff) When you ask Americans specific questions about the policies they support, it turns out we're not so polarized after all. |
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The Radical Homemaker's Guide To Telling Your Kids "No" As a mother, I have made life choices that can’t always include everything my children want—like hiking the Adirondacks. Here’s how I learned to overcome the guilt. |
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Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia—having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth. Local people are figuring out how to build a new economy based on shared vision and community knowledge. If transition can happen here, it can change the debate everywhere. These Young People Are Pioneering Appalachia's Post-Coal Economy The Appalachian Transition Fellows are young people who will spend this year building diverse job opportunities in the coal-country counties that need them most. These Women-Run Co-ops Push Back Against the “Feminization of Poverty” Two-thirds of the country’s low-wage workers are women. That’s why they stand to benefit the most from greater equity in and control of the workplace. Worker-Owned Co-ops Get $1 Million in NYC Spending New York City's newly approved budget allocates $1.2 million for developing and supporting worker-owned cooperative businesses. |
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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! |
