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Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions         June 2012  How I Found Bliss in a Creaky Old Rental Corbyn Hightower and her family moved from affluence to poverty—and into a “funky, junky” house. It’s been the happiest move of their lives. Not everyone can afford to buy a home. For as many as a third of us, renting is the right choice financially. After the crash of 2008 took them from top earners to just scraping by, Corbyn Hightower’s family ended up in a ramshackle rental. Here’s how they’ve made that rental into a home they love. Yes, they redecorated on a budget. But that’s not what counts the most—it’s what they gained when they left the sterile isolation of upscale suburbia and landed in a living, lively neighborhood. READ MORE … :: SHARE THIS EMAIL    WITH YOUR FRIENDS   :: SUBSCRIBE TO YES! MAGAZINE NOW :: Just $15 for a YES! subscription + the FREE bonus issue. PEEK INSIDE THE MAGAZINE     More from YES! Magazine’s Summer 2012 issue…   Our homes tell the story of where we come from and who we are. What happens when we lose them? Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind S.J. Dunning spent a year working with her father, cleaning up what was left behind when people lost their houses to foreclosure. Their job was to remove all traces of lives lived—to transform a home into just a house. What they found spoke of hard choices about what to take and what to leave behind—photo albums, children’s toys, clothing. Sometimes it showed willful destruction—burned and flooded houses. It all told stories of loss. “When we lose a home,” Dunning asks, “aren’t we burned a little, flooded by regret?” READ MORE … ALSO: A Patchwork Guide to the (Disappearing) Neighborhood   Green Living Tips   Smart ideas: Build a bike train. How To Get Kids Pedaling Again by Maya Jacobs In 1969, 48 percent of kids aged 5–14 regularly walked or biked to school. In 2009, it was just 13 percent. A major reason for the change is that parents don’t feel safe letting their kids bike on their own. Bike trains—in which an adult chaperone rides a predetermined route, picking up children along the way—are a way to make it easier, and safer, for kids to bike to school. READ MORE ...   What’s New Online   Elinor Ostrom’s Parting Advice to Rio+20 by Elinor Ostrom The late Nobel prize winner warned against a too-rigid international structure to solve climate change. Why Is India Still Poor? by Ashish Kothari India’s development was supposed to be an economic success story. What we can learn from what actually happened. Building the New Economy: 10 Steps We Can Take Now by James Gustave Speth How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power. Barrio Defense: How Arizona’s Immigrants are Standing Up to SB 1070 by B. Loewe Beyond the Supreme Court: For immigrant communities in Arizona and beyond, the struggle against draconian laws begins at home.   Did you miss…   Highlights from the last newsletter: :: Cheaper Together: How Neighbors Invest in Community Cooperative financing and community land trusts keep rents affordable and homeownership within reach. :: Homes That Survived the Crash While Wall Street players used home finance to make mega-profits for the 1 percent, local banks and community land trusts got people into decent, secure, affordable homes. :: 10 Ways To Love Where You Live How to build community here and now—because neighborhoods are more than houses in proximity.   How to Get More YES!  SUBSCRIBE TO YES! Get a year of YES! Magazine for just $15. + A BONUS ISSUE :: 54% OFF NONPROFIT. INDEPENDENT. SUBSCRIBER-SUPPORTED. YES! POSTERS Choose from our many inspirational posters. Currently featuring the Happiness Poster, “10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy.”   Facts that tell a story The Page That Counts Percentage of world’s fisheries that are fully exploited, overexploited, or collapsed: 85 … :: MORE Page That Counts   Book Review  The Achilles’ Heel of the American Dream “Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power” profiles the radical, working-class movements of the ’60s and ’70s—a guide for transformation today. :: MORE Book Reviews   Web Picks   FILM One Day On Earth What does a given moment look like on the other side of the globe? A new documentary captures a single day in every country on Earth. YES! is published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network   ::  www.yesmagazine.org 284 Madrona Way NE, Suite 116, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2870, USA  ::  Phone: 206-842-0216

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