Most Recent Articles - YES!

YES! has a positive solution-oriented focus. We reframe issues, reflect diverse human-scale stories, and offer tools for people to use and to pass along. Here are our most recent articles and blogs.

Is It Time to Close the Prisons Discussion Guide

posted Sep 30, 2000

Have you, or has someone close to you, spent time in jail or prison? What was the experience like? How did it change you/them?

Conservation Measures

by Susan Callan

posted Sep 30, 2000

Eco-design resources for making a green workplace.

Youth Court: Jury of Their Peers

by Edgar S. Cahn

posted Sep 30, 2000

The Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington, D.C. for first time juvenile offenders aims to keep first offenders from becoming hardened criminals.

YES! But How? :: Toxins and Pregnancy, Composting in the Cold

by Annie Berthold-Bond, Doug Pibel

posted Sep 30, 2000

Household Chemicals, Worm Bins, and Composting.

Our New Home

by Fran Korten

posted Sep 30, 2000

YES! A Journal of Positive Futures

Indicators

posted Sep 30, 2000

indicators: Campaigning for Change, Anti-Globalization, New Tax Breaks, Steelworkers' Victory, Burma Law Overturned, Frankenfood & Lawn, Local Currency Loan

Food for Life: The Brink of Opportunity

by Hal Hamilton

posted Jun 30, 2000

Industrial agriculture is a parody of the life-sustaining farming practiced over thousands of years. But there are signs of new life.

Resources For Life-Centered Agriculture

by Rik Langendoen

posted Jun 30, 2000

Organizations, ideas, books, and websites on life sustaining gardening, agriculture, and food

The Page That Counts :: Summer 2000

posted Jun 30, 2000

Percentage of Americans who would be comfortable buying a used car from George W. Bush, and more...

Book Review - Graceful Simplicity by Jerome Segal, Living Lightly by Walter and Dorothy Schwarz

by John de Graaf

posted Jun 30, 2000

Segal shows that now, perhaps for the first time in history, it is possible to create a society where all people can live simply but gracefully, with time for the things that really matter – deep friendships and relationships, a beautiful and clean environment, and freedom from fear and insecurity. All that is needed is the political will.

Film Review - Princess Mononoke Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

by Alan AtKisson

posted Jun 30, 2000

Book Review - Many Mountains Moving edited by Naomi Horii and Marilyn Krysl

by H.D. Lail

posted Jun 30, 2000

Book Review - Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living

by Amy Winchester

posted Jun 30, 2000

Book Review- Believing Cassandra: an optimist looks at a pessimist's world by Alan AtKisson

by Donella Meadows

posted Jun 30, 2000

YES! But How? :: Alternatives to Grass

by Annie Berthold-Bond, Doug Pibel

posted Jun 30, 2000

Ideas for green grass alternatives, fluorescent lights and natural moth repellents. If you're searching for practical ways to live sustainably, just ask us.