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Composting Toilets and Self Rule

 The ecological toilet is one of today's most hope-filled expressions of people's power.

Community Food System

Everybody Eats :: How a Community Food System Works

It begins with small farms working with natural cycles, and ends with fresh food and stronger communities in nearby cities.

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Building a Solidarity Economy

How can one small Brooklyn-based co-op help create an economy founded on teamwork, social justice, and democracy?

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The Greatest Danger

Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says that speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us.

Columns/Blogs

Fort Hood: We're Killing Ourselves

Grace Lee BoggsThe scars of war lead to suffering and violence. It's time to break the cycle.


Rethinking Iran

Duran ParsiIran's opposition movement has achieved real success in altering of Iran’s nuclear, economic, and foreign policy.

My Exhibit ... In the Museum of Trash
To better understand his waste footprint, Dave Chameides stored all of his trash in his basement for a year.
Posted Nov 20, 2009
The Season of Our Discontent: Poverty and Hunger in America
Just before Thanksgiving, the USDA has released alarming new statistics about hunger in America. How can we bridge the divide between abundance and scarcity?
Posted Nov 17, 2009
Obama: Confront Hiroshima's Legacy
It's time to show both Japan and the rest of the world that Americans take this history seriously, that we say in one voice "never again."
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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PEOPLE WE LOVE

Valerie Fast Horse

Bringing technology to tribes.

YES! But How

Hand Soap, Shoe Polish, and Funky Smells

Advice on alternatives for anti-bacterial soaps and toxic shoe polish, and our intern's secret trick to get rid of funky smells.

IN Review

Shopping our Way to Safety?

Andrew Szasz raises uncomfortable issues in his latest book on how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves.

Multimedia
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A Global Charter for Compassion

Thousands of people from around the world have contributed their suggestions to the Charter for Compassion—a yardstick for global empathy based on the Golden Rule.

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Jim Hightower Reads

Hightower's recipe for the fight for our future: question authority, trust your values, seek alternatives, and swim against the current.

Building a Bamboo Bike

DIY Bamboo Bikes

Bicycles handmade from local materials solve problems in Africa and in Brooklyn.

Issue 51 Music Picks

Music that inspired the Education Issue

Find out what we listened to while putting out the latest issue of YES! Magazine.

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Fierce Light

Velcrow Ripper's latest documentary portrays examples of spiritual activism: political actions focusing on compassion and interconnection.

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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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