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The creative spirit, and how it moves us.
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A Social Justice Tour of Oscar Winners Through the Decades
by Christopher Zumski Finkeposted Feb 28, 2014 - The upcoming Academy Awards will recognize some of 2013’s best social justice-themed films. Here are some of our favorite past winners.
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YES! Music Picks: What We've Been Listening to This Winter
by YES! online staffposted Feb 24, 2014 - Musical inspiration while putting out this issue.
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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.
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"Human Libraries" and Classes Taught By Babies? They're All Part of the Empathy Revolution
by Roman Krznaricposted Feb 10, 2014 - Empathy can be a force for radical social change, but only if we understand how to unleash it.
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Photo Essay: Pete Seeger's Life on the Hudson
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jan 28, 2014 - In December 2007, YES! editor-in-chief Sarah van Gelder interviewed Pete Seeger in his home in Beacon, New York. Seeger showed Sarah his family photo albums, his DIY solar-powered car, and, of course, a whole wall filled with banjos.
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Curriculum & Resources: Jazz in America
posted Jan 28, 2014 - In order to provide an ongoing education about jazz for our nation's students, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed Jazz in America, an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes in the United States.
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Fresh and Fly: Denver Rapper Teaches Kids to Be Gardeners Not Gangstas
posted Jan 28, 2014 - For Ietef "DJ Cavem" Vita, HIP HOP is not just a form of music, it's a way of life—one he's using to teach kids about cultivating the earth and eating fresh veggies.
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How Cooking Can Change Your Life
posted Jan 28, 2014 - In this powerful RSA Short, Michael Pollan shares some real talk about the difference between home cooked food and food made by corporations.
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Wild Eats, Resilient Farms, and Freedom From Money: 3 Holiday Reads for the Radical Homemaker
by Shannon Hayesposted Dec 10, 2013 - Books should light up our lives—especially during the dark days of winter. Here are a few to pass along.
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Photo Essay: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Joins the Green Museum Movement
by YES! Online Staffposted Dec 06, 2013 - LEED certification is tricky for museums, which must carefully regulate temperature and humidity. That makes this brand new building in small-town Washington all the more remarkable.
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Facing Ourselves: The Climate Challenge Needs a New Kind of Bravery
by YES! online staffposted Nov 28, 2013 - Before fighting climate change, we must first confront our emotions about it.
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These 4 Black Friday Send-Ups Remind Us to Keep Laughing, Not Shopping
by Erin Sagenposted Nov 27, 2013 - Think the "biggest shopping day of the year" has become too depraved to be funny? Let Louis C.K., Seinfeld, and South Park transform your anxiety into hilarity.
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Being Kind
posted Nov 18, 2013 - KarmaTube music video on kindness.
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Kids Can Teach Themselves
posted Oct 21, 2013 - In this TED Talk, 2013 TED Prize Winner Sugata Mitra believes that a child-driven education is the best way for kids to learn. Mitra shares his findings from his Granny Cloud and Hole in the Wall projects.
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Inequality for All: Documentary Antidote to "Elysium Economy"
by Chuck Collinsposted Sep 24, 2013 - From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality
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