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.

A 21st Century Agenda

posted Oct 27, 2000

YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, a new culture emerges: winter 2001, indicators

Breakthroughs

by Richard Heinberg

posted Oct 27, 2000

Innovation, insight, and knowledge from the 20th century could inspire social transformation in the 21st.

Freedom's Sacred Dance

by Vincent Harding, Rosemarie Freeney Harding

posted Oct 27, 2000

The Veterans of Hope Project brings together veterans of the civil rights movement with young activist to explore links between religion and social transformation.

Garden of Simplicity

by Duane Elgin

posted Oct 27, 2000

garden of simplicity, by Duane Elgin. Simplicity is the new mantra for the overworked, over-stressed, and over-cluttered, and for those who want to lighten their impact on the Earth. The author of the classic book on voluntary simplicity says the ways to simplicity are many.

Discussion Guide: A New Culture Emerges

posted Oct 27, 2000

YES is a leading-edge quarterly journal magazine published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network concerned with building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future

The Total Thrust Is Global Justice

by Drew Dellinger

posted Oct 27, 2000

the total thrust is global justice, by Drew Dellinger. Rap against globalization and injustice.

The Great Community of the Earth

by Thomas Berry

posted Oct 27, 2000

the great community of the Earth, by Thomas Berry. At a special event held during the UN Summit for Religious and Spiritual Leaders in August, Thomas Berry told these stories of our common dreams for the Earth.

YES! But How? :: Diesel Trucks, Soap V. Detergent

by Annie Berthold-Bond, Doug Pibel

posted Oct 27, 2000

Diesel trucks, Brown spots on skin, Dust Mites, Brass Cleaner, Soap vs Detergent, Moth ball odor, Stuff-free gifts, Annie Berthold, Ask Annie, household hints and helps

The New Solidarity

by Anthony S. Arch

posted Oct 27, 2000

the new solidarity, by Anthony S. Arch. Steelworkers and forest activists forge a new alliance.

Earth Charter

by Jan Roberts

posted Oct 27, 2000

A description of the Earth Charter document, a declaration of responsibility and interdependency.

Peacemaking: a family affair

by James W. Zion

posted Sep 30, 2000

Peacemakers in the Navajo Nation can quickly get to the bottom of a situation that resulted in a crime.

The Page That Counts :: Fall 2000

posted Sep 30, 2000

Number of mosquitoes a pipistrelle bat eats on a warm summer night . . ., and more...

Book Review: Planet Dialectics by Wolfgang Sachs

by Misa Saros

posted Sep 30, 2000

In Planet Dialectics, Wolfgang Sachs repeatedly asks the nagging question: "Whose development and of what?"

Book Review - Ecology of a Cracker Childhhood by Janise Ray

by Daniel J. Martin

posted Sep 30, 2000

Navajo Justice

by The Honorable Robert Yazzie Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation

posted Sep 30, 2000

Navajo Nation revises criminal code, reduces sentences, and requires peacemaking.