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.

YES! But How? :: Meaningful Holiday Season

by Doug Pibel, Annie Berthold-Bond

posted Oct 29, 1999

Household hints and helps. Meaningful Christmas gifts, dangerous candle soot, eliminating carpenter ants.

Letter From the Editor

by Sarah Ruth van Gelder

posted Oct 29, 1999

How do we choose topics for the magazine?

Tree People

by Tracy Rysavy

posted Oct 29, 1999

A story about Tree People, a Los Angeles organization that is fighting global climate change by planting trees. by Tracy Rysavy

Resources for a Climate-friendly World

posted Oct 29, 1999

resource guide for climate change

Whose Rules?

by David Morris

posted Oct 29, 1999

The World trade Organization summit in Seattle could be a turning point in the politics of globalization. The summit was called to reduce barriers to the free, global flows of money and products. Opponents say these moves lower global labor and environmental standards and compromise local and national sovereignty. What might those who are concerned about sustainability, living standards, and community propose instead?

Assembling For Peace

by D.J. Mitchell

posted Oct 29, 1999

In Sri Lanka, the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, a grassroots community development organization that combines Buddhist philosophy with Gandhian methods.

A Zero-emissions Family

by Donella Meadows

posted Oct 29, 1999

a zero-emissions family, by Donna Meadows- the Jonathan Foley family , YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, winter 1999/2000: changing the climate,

Taking Stock

by Jennifer McCullough

posted Oct 29, 1999

Calculating how to be more climate change friendly.

CO2 quiz: are you Kyoto cool?

by Jennifer McCullough

posted Oct 29, 1999

Notes From a Pilgrimage

by Fran Korten

posted Oct 29, 1999

Fran Korten makes a pilgramage to see the Dalai Lama

Indicators

posted Oct 29, 1999

changing the climate, indicators

Green Schools

by Chloe Frommer

posted Oct 29, 1999

changing the climate, green schools By Chloe Frommer

Readers' Forum

posted Oct 29, 1999

Earth's Energy Future

by Deepa Anandakrishnan, Oronto Douglas, Denis Hayes, Jose Lutzenberger, Wolfgang Sachs, Francesca Lyman

posted Oct 29, 1999

changing the climate, earth's energy future, by Deepa Anandakrishnan, Oronto Douglas, Denis Hayes, Josè Lutzenberger, Francesca Lyman, and Wolfgang Sachs

Energy At the Edge

by Chris Frommer, Jennifer McCullough, Shalini Ramanathan

posted Oct 29, 1999

Perhaps the most promising way to meet our energy needs is through efficiently using the energy we already produce