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President Obama’s Climate Speech: Is It Enough?
by YES! online staffposted 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?
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A Healing Walk through Canada’s Tar Sands Dystopia
by Clayton Thomas-Mullerposted 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.
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Will the 99% Outbid the Billionaires Trying to Buy the LA Times?
by YES! online staffposted 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.
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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.
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Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops
by YES! online staffposted Apr 18, 2013 - Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.
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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.
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A Portlandia Sendup of Tiny House Living
by YES! online staffposted Apr 11, 2013 - Portlandia’s Kumail Nanjiani visits a tiny house and asks some of the questions on everybody’s mind.
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Remembering Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Master Storyteller
by YES! online staffposted 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.”
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Puget Sound Tribe Plans for Rising Seas
by Benjamin Drummond, Sara Steeleposted 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.
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Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food
by YES! online staffposted 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.
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Neighborhood Chalkboard Reveals Secrets and Dreams
posted Feb 01, 2013 - TEDTalk by Candy Chang on connecting communities through art, sharing, and usable public spaces.
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What a Wonderful World, from David Attenborough
posted Dec 24, 2012 - A beautiful short film that will remind you it is, indeed, a wonderful world.
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Animal Odd Couples
posted Dec 21, 2012 - Are animals capable of feeling emotions? PBS Nature shares evidence that humans are not the only ones on the planet who cares, loves, and empathizes. Meet five animal odd couples.
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Writing Love Letters to Hundreds of Strangers “Absolutely Healed Me”
posted Dec 18, 2012 - To cope with intense loneliness after moving to New York City, Hannah Brencher offered to write an old-fashioned love letter to any stranger who needed one. She never guessed how many people she would ultimately reach.
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20 Machines for a DIY Civilization
posted Dec 06, 2012 - Video: Open Source Ecology has released free plans for building tractors, brick compressors, and other essential machines. Why pay more for stuff that's designed to fall apart?
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