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Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions         January 2013  2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here’s how last year’s most important stories will shape 2013. 9 Stories That Will Change Your World in 2013 While the Earth didn’t end on December 21, 2012, the year’s end was marked by a new awareness of the urgency of the climate crisis. Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the preciousness and fragility of life on Earth. That and other cultural shifts are setting the stage for significant change in the year ahead. READ THE NINE KEY TRENDS :: SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER WITH YOUR FRIENDS      More from the Winter issue of YES! Magazine …   Creating a world where people fly, salamanders text, and trash is useful. Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature Back to the City The visionary artist and engineer Natalie Jeremijenko creates public art projects that aim to change the way people feel about science and their surroundings. Working primarily in cities, she wants to highlight the thriving natural systems beneath the pavement so we can work with them to improve our shared environmental health. Jeremijenko’s goal is to reimagine cities in ways that promote “pleasure and wonder and environmental health”—to help people think of themselves as agents of creativity and positive change, neither removed from the environment nor a burden upon it. Her art installations reveal the natural world hidden within cities—while also actively addressing environmental problems. READ MORE ...   See other articles from the Winter issue of YES! Magazine. ::  PEEK INSIDE THE ISSUE  ::  SUBSCRIBE TO YES! TODAY  :: Order now and start with the What Would Nature Do? issue! SEE THE TABLE OF CONTENTS       Inspiring and Innovative Solutions   A Living Sewage Treatment Plant? These People Grew One by Claudia Rowe In communities from upstate New York to Ohio, Minnesota to Hawaii, a network of scientists, architects, and engineers has been rethinking the way we process our waste because the need is extreme. Jason McLennan, an architect, chief executive of the Cascadia Green Building Council, and one of YES! Magazine’s Breakthrough 15, points out that instead of taking our cues from nature—which processes waste on the spot and recycles the nutrients—every flush of a standard toilet takes a several-ounce problem and turns it into a several-gallon problem by adding clean water to feces and transporting the whole mess to treatment facilities via a Byzantine network of aging sewers. To get a sense of scale, consider that the average household flushes about 160 gallons of water to handle three pounds of poop and a gallon of urine each day. An equation that imbalanced strikes even the most conventional thinkers as hopelessly inefficient. READ MORE ... Invasive Species: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ’em by Joe Roman Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them. READ MORE ... Looking for an Earth-Friendly Source of Fish? Try Barn-Raised by Katherine Gustafson Aquaponics takes advantage of nature’s processes to fill Americans’ growing appetite for fish—without overfishing or destructive farming. READ MORE ...   What’s New Online   4 Reminders of Human Goodness After Sandy Hook by Jeremy Adam Smith Following the heartbreak in Newtown, many Americans find themselves wondering—are people just horrible? Jeremy Adam Smith on why compassion, forgiveness, and resilience are everywhere, even in tragedy. How Bicycling Is Transforming Business by Jay Walljasper Cities across the United States discover that good biking attracts great jobs and top talent to their communities. Dirty, Pricey, and Obsolete: Why Desalination Is Not Worth Its Salt by Adam Scow Efforts to curb the consumption of water are getting great results and making expensive desalination plants obsolete. Why Won’t the Wall Street Journal Cover the Cooperative Economy? by Gar Alperovitz, Keane Bhatt Cooperative businesses are proliferating quickly, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the Wall Street Journal.   Did you miss…   Audience Favorites: :: 5 Holiday Parlor Games to Make Your Gatherings More Fun Spoons, sardines, telephone charades, and other activities to put a boost in your get-togethers. :: “You Are Safe With Us”: How Ordinary Iraqis Rescued U.S. Civilians in the Midst of War Some war stories are best forgotten, and some are best retold. :: 20 Machines for a DIY Civilization Video: Open Source Ecology has released free plans for building tractors, brick compressors, and other essential machines. Why pay more for stuff that’s designed to fall apart?   You Balanced the Budget   Hundreds of YES! readers raised more than $45k at the end of 2012. You set YES! up for a strong 2013. And you set me up for lots of belly rubs from Fran & Dave. Thank you. Ernie Korten & the YES! team   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. WISDOM OF NATURE POSTER SET Gorgeous, thought-provoking. Get the set for just $9. Featuring quotes by Rumi, Carl Sagan, and Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot paired with beautiful color photographs. YES! KLEAN KANTEEN® Instant inspiration— Just add water. Support our work and support the planet too with the healthiest, safest bottle you can get.   From the Publisher   On the Road to Zero Waste by Fran Korten The individual actions we take to reduce waste are important, but to stem the avalanche of stuff ... we also need system-wide solutions.   Web Picks   VIDEO What a Wonderful World, from David Attenborough A beautiful short film that will remind you it is, indeed, a wonderful world. 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