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Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food
by YES! online staff
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.
The Power of Outrospection The Power of Outrospection
Video: Roman Krznaric on the concept of “outrospection” and how it could shape the 21st century—all illustrated with animated cartoons!
People We Love: David Feld People We Love: David Feld
by Fabien Tepper
Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony—in the city.
People We Love: Leia Lewis Henderson People We Love: Leia Lewis Henderson
by Laura Beans
Nurturing African-American culture through gardening.
Shooting Stars and Living Spirit
by Roberto Vargas
4 Lessons for Growing a Family Farm across Generations 4 Lessons for Growing a Family Farm across Generations
by Shannon Hayes
Breaking our families into nuclear units has an ecological and emotional cost. Could the multigenerational farm remind us where to turn for a viable future?
Language and Metaphors for a New Cosmology
by Tim Fox
You Are Where You Live You Are Where You Live
by Susan Griffin
How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.
Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account) Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account)
by Eva Hayward
What I learned about love from a hermaphrodite, a cannibal, and a dizzyingly diverse array of sea creatures.
Bringing (Human) Diversity to America’s National Parks Bringing (Human) Diversity to America’s National Parks
by YES! Online Staff
Video: Take a journey to Yosemite National Park with the Amazing Grace 50+ Club, a Los Angeles-based church group that strives to bring more people of color to our national parks.
Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn’t Give in to Monocrops Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn’t Give in to Monocrops
by Shannon Hayes
It’s a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It’s a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.
Tomorrow, We March on Washington to End the Gun Violence Tomorrow, We March on Washington to End the Gun Violence
by Rev. Jacqui Lewis
Twenty-two times more children have been killed by guns since 1979 than military personnel in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Rev. Jacqui Lewis on why all of us—from clergy to factory workers—must not be too sad, too busy, or too afraid to say, enough.
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
by Frances Moore Lappé
Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
To Follow in MLK’s Footsteps, Join the Fight against Foreclosure To Follow in MLK’s Footsteps, Join the Fight against Foreclosure
by Lester Spence
How can today’s Civil Rights leaders follow in the tradition of MLK? Lester Spence argues that foreclosures are the issue and the church may just be the solution.
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