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The creative spirit, and how it moves us.

Don’t Wait for the Revolution—Live It

by Andrew Boyd

posted Jul 05, 2013

When pranksters and creative organizers create temporary utopias, the experience leaves us wanting more—and ready to work hard to get it.

President Obama’s Climate Speech: Is It Enough?

by YES! online staff

posted Jun 27, 2013

Thom Hartmann and YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder discuss the president’s speech on climate change. Is it a first step toward climate justice? Or is it too little, too late?

A Healing Walk through Canada’s Tar Sands Dystopia

by Clayton Thomas-Muller

posted Jun 06, 2013

Cree organizer Clayton Thomas-Muller provides a deeply personal account of a ceremonial healing walk through the broken landscape of Canada’s tar sands. This year’s walk begins July 4.

Melodeego: The Hippest Bike-Powered Band in Town

by Chuck Collins

posted May 28, 2013

Melodeego has been making music for the environment for years. Their songs include protests of the Keystone XL pipeline and other topics inspired by the anti-climate change movement.

Will the 99% Outbid the Billionaires Trying to Buy the LA Times?

by YES! online staff

posted May 16, 2013

A new player has joined the high-stakes bidding war over the Tribune Company, which owns some of America’s largest newspapers: the people of the United States.

Worker-Owned Window Factory Opens for Business

posted May 09, 2013

When the company known as Republic Windows and Doors closed its Chicago factory, the workers raised the money to buy back the company themselves. The worker-owned cooperative they formed opens today.

YES! Music Picks: Summer 2013

posted Apr 22, 2013

Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, Melodeego, and other inspiration while putting together the Summer 2013 issue of YES!

Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops

by YES! online staff

posted Apr 18, 2013

Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.

For the Bullied and Beautiful

posted Apr 15, 2013

In this sometimes humorous and painfully true TEDTalk, Shane Koyczan's spoken-word poem, "To This Day," shares the anguish of being bullied and the will to survive.

A Portlandia Sendup of Tiny House Living

by YES! online staff

posted Apr 11, 2013

Portlandia’s Kumail Nanjiani visits a tiny house and asks some of the questions on everybody’s mind.

Remembering Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Master Storyteller

by YES! online staff

posted Mar 22, 2013

The great Nigerian author and essayist Chinua Achebe died on Thursday in Boston. In this interview with Bill Moyers, first broadcast in 1988, he explains why “The storyteller has a different agenda from the emperor.”

Cartoon: The Endless Uses of a Plastic Bag

by Joe Mohr

posted Mar 05, 2013

Puget Sound Tribe Plans for Rising Seas

by Benjamin Drummond, Sara Steele

posted Feb 25, 2013

Video: The Swinomish tribe could lose up to 15 percent of their land on low-lying Fidalgo Island to climate-change related sea level rise. They’re working with planners to make sure they can survive—and thrive—in the region’s changing climate.

Photographs from James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade

by Sedat Pakay, Charles Johnson

posted Feb 12, 2013

Sedat Pakay’s disarming photos of James Baldwin during his time in Turkey show a side of the great writer most of us have never seen.

Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food

by YES! online staff

posted Feb 12, 2013

Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.