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.

Freedom Sings

by Sarah Ruth van Gelder

posted Jan 31, 2002

An interview with Harry Belafonte.

YES! But How? :: Furniture Polish

posted Jan 31, 2002

linseed oil furniture polish, nontoxic way to clean carpet, volunteers for physical work, sustainable deck, controlling sugar ants

Readers' Forum

posted Nov 05, 2001

Precaution: Mistrust Science

The Page That Counts :: Winter 2002

posted Nov 05, 2001

Afghanistan: A Portrait in Numbers

Can Love Save the World

by Walter Wink

posted Nov 05, 2001

Can Love Save the World by Walter Wink

Peace and Nonviolence Resource Guide

posted Nov 05, 2001

Resources for conflict resolution and organizations working for peace

Heart of a Muslim

by Jamal Rahman

posted Nov 05, 2001

heart of a muslim by Jamal Rahman,

Ordinary Heroes

by Samuel P. Oliner

posted Nov 05, 2001

Sociologist and Holocaust survivor Samuel P. Oliner writes about what motivates altruists and heroes who put the welfare of others alongside their own. Reaching out to others has been the force behind much that is good in the world.

Review of Widening Circles

by Kim Bush

posted Nov 05, 2001

A review of Joanna Macy's book Widening Circles, by Kim Bush.

Wounded

by Michael Lerner

posted Nov 05, 2001

The great wound we face as a species will have to be acknowledged at a depth that most of us have only begun to imagine if we are to carry this wound in a way that leads to planetary healing.

Review of Culture Jam: the Uncooling of AmericaTM

by Dan Bertolet

posted Nov 05, 2001

A review of the book Culture Jam, by Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine.

Choose Love

by Yael Lachman

posted Nov 05, 2001

What America has just learned, very painfully, is that we have not loved enough. Through our own ignorance, we have helped create a world where desperate people will gladly sign up to be the messengers of death. And now that death and destruction have reached our own shores, we must decide how we are going to respond: with love, or with fear.

Danny Glover Under Attack

by Fran Korten

posted Nov 05, 2001

Danny Glover, actor, activist, and board member of the Positive Futures Network, has been coming under a hailstorm of attacks based on an incident following a speech he gave at Princeton on November 15.

Something Shifted

by Fran Korten

posted Nov 05, 2001

In the shadow of war, evidence accumulates of changing cultural priorities and a brighter future

Our Time To Choose

by David Korten

posted Nov 05, 2001

The terrorist attack on September 11 momentarily united the world behind an effort to bring the guilty to justice and prevent future terrorist violence. It also focused attention on a defining human choice between justice and vengeance, compassion and violence, and freedom and suppression.