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Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times

Laura Flanders interviews the directors of Shift Change, a film about the cooperative business movement.

Jul 03, 2013

President Obama’s Climate Speech: Is It Enough?

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?

YES! online staff Jun 27, 2013

The author and others participate in the Walk to Heal the Tar Sands in 2009. Photo courtesy Occupy Love / Velcrow Ripper .

A Healing Walk through Canada’s Tar Sands Dystopia

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.

Clayton Thomas-Muller Jun 06, 2013

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

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.

YES! online staff May 16, 2013

Worker-Owned Window Factory Opens for Business

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.

May 09, 2013

Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops

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

YES! online staff Apr 18, 2013

For the Bullied and Beautiful

Apr 19, 2013

A Portlandia Sendup of Tiny House Living

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

YES! online staff Apr 02, 2013

Remembering Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Master Storyteller

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.”

YES! online staff Mar 22, 2013

Puget Sound Tribe Plans for Rising Seas

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.

Benjamin Drummond Feb 22, 2013

Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food

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.

YES! online staff Feb 12, 2013

Neighborhood Chalkboard Reveals Secrets and Dreams

TEDTalk by Candy Chang on connecting communities through art, sharing, and usable public spaces.

Jing Fong Jan 10, 2013

What a Wonderful World, from David Attenborough

A beautiful short film that will remind you it is, indeed, a wonderful world.

Dec 20, 2012

Animal Odd Couples

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.

Dec 14, 2012

Writing Love Letters to Hundreds of Strangers “Absolutely Healed Me”

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.

Dec 17, 2012