Making It Home
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ShareInside Our Summer Issue YES! Magazine Issue 62, Summer 2012
The mess left by the real estate crash isn’t cleaned up yet; many are still losing their homes. But here and there people are rewriting the rules of ownership, changing their expectations about what “home” means, and creating houses that are affordable and sustainable.
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New Visions
Solving today's big problems will take more than a quick fix. These authors offer clarity about the roots of our problems and visions of a better way.
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Real Homes: Small, Frugal, and Green After the real-estate crash, what do we call home? Adjust your expectations. It's not a slot machine or an investment. It's a place to live.
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How I Learned to Love My Hometown How history and family brought three generations back to the Jersey town they'd forsaken.
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World and Community
New models that foster justice and real prosperity, and sustain the Earth's living systems. How can we bring these models to life and put them to work?
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Dear Bank of America, We're Not Leaving Activists and homeowners say evictions have got to stop. PHOTO ESSAY: A Patchwork Guide to the (Disappearing) Neighborhood. |
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Living on the Street, Fighting for Recognition Homeless protesters force corporations to reckon with the recession. |
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Cheaper Together: How Neighbors Invest in Community Land trusts and cooperatives create shelter from the storms of the housing market. |
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How to Build Green on a Budget The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable. |
The Power of One
Stories of people who find their courage, open their hearts, and discover what it means to be human in today's world.
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How we found happiness in a run-down rental. |
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Is Owning Or Renting Better For You? How to tell when it's smart to rent. |
Breaking Open
Humor, storytelling, and the arts—taking you into unexpected spaces where business-as-usual breaks open into new possibilities.
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Small, supportive, recycled, and more. PLUS PHOTO ESSAY: VIDEO: Recycled homes: |
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After the Foreclosures, What We Leave Behind In the wreckage, what's left of American dreams. |
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Life is Easier With Friends Next Door How to make an oasis of friendly neighbors and green living, even in a pricey city. |
Also in the Summer 2012 Issue ... |
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The Real Reason the Military Is Going Green U.S. armed forces are the world's No. 1 oil guzzler. Their concern about fossil fuel may shift the politics of climate change. |
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Standing Up for Marriage Rights—on the Reservation Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage |
