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.

Keystone XL "At a Standstill" After Nebraska Ruling

by Kristin Moe

posted Feb 20, 2014

Local landowners and environmentalists who have long opposed the pipeline project are celebrating the decision.

Discipline With Dignity: Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead of Punishment

by Fania Davis

posted Feb 19, 2014

As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline.

My Year Without Porn: Some Surprising Lessons

by Dan Mahle

posted Feb 19, 2014

Since I quit watching porn a year ago, I've become more present in the moment, more loving, and a better friend to the women in my life.

West Virginians Harvest Rainwater in Wake of Chem Spill

by Molly Rusk

posted Feb 18, 2014

Residents whose tap water was polluted are finding that rainwater is an affordable alternative.

New Video from Harry Potter Director Promotes Tax on Wall Street

by John Cavanagh, Robin Broad

posted Feb 18, 2014

The video, set in 2024, shows European bankers looking back at the passage of a tax that brought "serious money to the fight against extreme poverty."

How the Fight Against Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law Transformed a Community

by Levana Saxon

posted Feb 17, 2014

Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarrez is an organizer with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Here, she speaks about the role of grassroots groups in the fight to roll back HB 56.

My Love Affair with Breadfruit (And Other Stories from the Waiʻanae Youth Garden)

posted Feb 17, 2014

Tasia Yamamura is a FoodCorps service member on the beautiful Waiʻanae coast of Oahu, Hawai'i. To combat diabetes and heart disease, she is teaching young people how to grow and prepare real, healthy foods.

Curriculum & Resources: Food Literacy Quiz

posted Feb 17, 2014

From Nourish and Food Day, a quiz that tests how food literate you are. The 15 questions reveal facts about food and its relationship to the bigger food system, and the community-at-large.

Questions No One Knows the Answers To

posted Feb 17, 2014

TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.

Curriculum & Resources: Why Women's Stories Matter

posted Feb 17, 2014

March is Women's History Month. In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students examine their school curriculum and personal experiences on reading stories about and by women. Through this analysis, they will deepen their understanding of why women's stories matter.

Poster: What Healthy Diets Have in Common

posted Feb 17, 2014

This colorful poster compares eight healthy diets—vegan, Mediterranean, ancestral, glycemic idex, anti-inflammatory, raw, traditional Asian, and Natl. Institutes of Health—and shares what they have in common(besides kale) and how they are different.

Visual Learning: A Slow, Press-ious Process

posted Feb 17, 2014

With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about local, sustainable farming.

A Passion for Peppers: The Movement to Save New Mexico's Treasured Chiles

by Nina Bunker Ruiz

posted Feb 14, 2014

New Mexico's traditional landrace chile varieties have adapted to hot days, cold nights, and long dry spells. But can they survive modern agribusiness?

A Welcome Surprise: There Are More States Working to Expand Voting Rights than to Restrict Them

by Sue Sturgis

posted Feb 13, 2014

In 2013, 46 states introduced 237 bills designed to make voting easier, while restrictive measures were introduced in only 33.

This Couple's Marriage Healed the Planet and Cost Just $3K—Here's How They Did It

by Linnea M. Paton

posted Feb 13, 2014

Four ways to have an equitable, earth-loving, and awesome wedding.