Real Homes: Small, Frugal, and Green
With 5 million houses in foreclosure, we are rediscovering that living sustainably includes living affordably.
Making It Home
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.
A sense of history and community tugged at the heart of Mindy Fullilove and pulled her back to the Jersey home she’d forsaken.
A quote from Maya Angelou, from Making It Home, the Summer 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Download it here.
Bringing personal warmth and serious scholarship to advocacy for marriage equality in Orthodox Judaism.
This college football player insisted the University of Virginia invest in living wages for its employees, not new sports enhancements.
This year's public outcry against Apple and Foxconn factory conditions might finally point electronics production in a fairer direction.
Protecting a 400-year-old water management system from industrial takeover is also about protecting the Southwest's future.
Percentage of world's fisheries that are fully exploited, overexploited, or collapsed: 85 ...
Musical inspiration while putting together the Summer 2012 issue.
Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people.
How to know when it's smart to rent.
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.
Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance.
We—not just the president—have to be the agents of change in our society. How do we extend our electoral organizing beyond the elections?
Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk.