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The creative spirit, and how it moves us.
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- Soundtrack to a revolution.
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- Audio
- Listen to interviews, podcasts, radio programs that tell the YES! stories.
- Film
- Watch trailers to our pick of maddening and motivating independent films.
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Banking on Change
posted Mar 18, 2010 - With a briefcase and a motorcycle, a banker in India gets poor communities on their feet—and, in the process, blurs the lines between finance and community organizing.
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Green-collar Jobs in Newark, New Jersey
posted Mar 09, 2010 - A weatherization program in Newark, New Jersey, is creating jobs and helping low-income residents save money.
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Drafting Nature's Constitution
posted Mar 02, 2010 - Video: Simply regulating pollution will never really stop it. Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund discusses why we need a fundamental change in the way we use law to protect nature.
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Avatar in the Amazon
posted Feb 23, 2010 - Indigenous Amazonian communities in Ecuador share their take on the American blockbuster, Avatar.
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Haiti: Aftermath of the Earthquake
posted Feb 16, 2010 - Photo Essay: Photographer Willie Davis offers a glimpse into the fallout of the Haitian earthquake, capturing the devastation and resilience.
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Bee Cartoon
posted Feb 16, 2010 - "This new Queen has some pretty wild ideas about the hive's role in activism." Caption submitted by Milo Coccimiglio.
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Living Water Garden on the Fu and Nan Rivers
posted Feb 16, 2010 - Photo Essay: A look at China's living water garden in Chengdu. This floating ecological living machine—a gorgeous botanical garden—is restoring open sewage canals.
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World Economic Forum, Take Two
by Brooke Jarvisposted Feb 12, 2010 - Prankster filmmakers found a way to make business and political leaders say all the right things.
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell :: Film Trailer
posted Feb 11, 2010 - In the face of the civil wars wrecking their country, a small group of courageous Liberian women banded together to advocate peace.
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Crude :: Film Trailer
posted Feb 11, 2010 - What is the real price of oil? This 2009 documentary investigates the $27 billion class action environmental lawsuit against Chevron for pollution.
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DIRT! :: Film Trailer
posted Feb 11, 2010 - The Earth's most overlooked natural resource is right beneath our feet.
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Brett Dennen's Empathy Song
posted Feb 11, 2010 - Video: Musician Brett Dennen sings about empathy, not entropy, for the Mosaic Project, a nonprofit outdoor education program focused on building positive relationships based on respect.
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The Hapa Project
posted Feb 11, 2010 - Artist Kip Fulbeck's portrait project delves into the complex relationship between race and identity for hapas, a growing population in multiracial America.
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Quote: President Barack Obama
posted Feb 11, 2010 - A quote from President Barack Obama, from the America: The Remix issue of YES! Magazine. Download it here.
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YES! Music Picks :: Spring 2010
posted Feb 11, 2010 - Musical inspiration while putting out the Spring 2010 issue: Susana Baca, Neil Halstead, and songs inspired by the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama.
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YES! Film Picks: Crude, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Dirt
posted Feb 11, 2010 - Reviews of our favorite films for the spring 2010.
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Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey
by Faith Adieleposted Feb 11, 2010 - American Girls: An excerpt from Faith Adiele's memoir.
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End of the Long Summer
posted Feb 10, 2010 - Author Dianne Dumanoski discusses climate change as a human crisis and why we must find our way "through this thicket of uncertainty."
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Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America
posted Feb 10, 2010 - Photo Essay: Mike Tauber's 2009 book, Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America, features photographs of individuals alongside intimate interviews about their thoughts on what it means to be multiracial.
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An Interview With Paolo Lugari, Founder of Las Gaviotas
posted Feb 10, 2010 - Paolo Lugari, the founder of Las Gaviotas in Colombia, describes how the incredible energy of the human spirit has made Las Gaviotas into a world-famous example of sustainable living in a harsh environment.
