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Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions         September 2010  In this newsletter, a preview of the new issue of YES! Magazine, Ready for Anything Build Resilience Now For Hard Times Ahead   :: WEB SPECIAL: Just $15  :: SUBSCRIBE TO YES! TODAY :: :: PEEK INSIDE THE NEW ISSUE ::   Ideas for building resilience from communities across the country—from a hand-made house to rooftop beekeeping. Building Your Own Home … Together No fortune? No skills? No problem. How a novice builder used mud—and teamwork—to make a house from scratch.   MORE … Building a Handmade Cob House Brian Liloia had never built anything before he took on the task of building his own home. See how he turned a mixture of straw, clay, and sand into a uniquely cozy place to live. Low-Impact Urban Living Bike As You Are Return of the Mercantile Processing Food Where the Food Is Beekeeping On City Rooftops Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild Making Fruit Public Get Off The Grid Sunshine on the Menu :: SHARE THESE 10 RESILIENT IDEAS WITH FRIENDS :: NOT YET A SUBSCRIBER TO YES! … ? Take us up on this introductory offer to subscribe today, starting with the Resilient Communities issue. Just $15 for a year of YES! (regular price $24), plus an extra issue free. :: PEEK INSIDE THE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES ISSUE   YES! Solutions…   10 Ways to Solve the Jobs Problem by Fran Korten Imagine a no-holds-barred “summit” to come up with ideas to solve both our job and environmental problems. What might it produce? Here is my starter list. Find out the reasons for these choices, and add your own ideas on our website.  MORE … More farms, less agribusiness. More repair, fewer products. More recycling, less mining. More renovations, less construction. More restoration, less destruction. More bike paths, fewer highways. More local businesses, fewer megastores. More dishwashing, fewer throwaways. More education, less advertising. More clean energy, less fossil fuel.   10 to the Power …    Everybody loves a list. In that spirit, here are 3 more of your favorite YES! lists, from Jen Angel, David Korten, and Colin “No Impact Man” Beavan. 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy Scientists can tell us how to be happy. Really. Here are 10 ways, with the research to prove it. :: GET THE POSTER 10 Common Sense Principles for a New Economy It’s time we the people declare our independence from the money-favoring Wall Street economy. 10 Ways to Change Your Life (Not Just Your Light Bulbs) Colin Beavan shares his ideas for powering cultural change. See “No Impact Man’s” picks for a climate-friendly life. :: GET THE POSTER   What’s New Online…   Here are two new blog posts from Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes, and the editor’s pick of the top online stories of recent weeks. On Facing Judgment Live radically, and you’ll inevitably face the judgment of others. For Shannon Hayes, loving unconditionally is the antidote. Movies, My Kids, and Me Shannon Hayes used movies to give her daughters—and herself—an occasional break. Then they began to take over. My Tiny, Free House Michael Janzen had a big house and a big mortgage. Then the financial crisis hit, and he wondered just how small, and how cheap, a house could be. Framing For Change How we tell the story of a better world matters—and the best way is to live the alternatives we advocate. A Month Without Monsanto April Dávila wondered what it would take to cut the GMO giant out of her family’s life. She found that it was far more entrenched than she’d ever realized. What is Real Wealth? We’ve been measuring happiness in all the wrong ways. What’s the pathway to true quality of life? John Robbins finds out how to live better in an age of less.   From the new issue of YES! Magazine…   Signs of Life Small Stories About Big Change Canada Extends Conservation Area to Seafloor Victory in the 25-year struggle to protect the “Galapagos of the North”—from mountaintops to the bottom of the sea. :: READ MORE SIGNS OF LIFE :: U.N. Vote on Water, Sanitation Rights The resolution to act on the world’s “most violated human right.” :: At Last, a Human Right to Water Students Score Victory for Honduran Workers How the “Just Pay It!” campaign on college campuses netted $1.5 million for Nike garment workers.   Did you miss…   Highlights from recent newsletters: :: An End to Constant War  Seven reasons we’re always at war… and seven ways to quit. :: The Little Town That Sent a Corporation Packing Felton, Calif., took back its water supply—and your town can do it, too. :: The Story of Cosmetics  Annie Leonard explores the toxins in our bathrooms, and what to do about them.   How to Get More YES!  $15 SUBSCRIPTION A year of YES! Magazine for just $15. Plus a bonus issue. NON-PROFIT. INDEPENDENT. SUBSCRIBER-SUPPORTED. GIVE THE GIFT OF YES! to a friend DONATE and help us inspire action for a better world. WENDELL BERRY POSTER 17 rules to help you build a thriving and sustainable community.   Commentary  A Climate Bill That Can Pass How the cap-and-cash-back bill can clear a deadlocked Senate—and make most Americans better off. :: MORE STRATEGIC THINKING:    YES COMMENTARIES   Books  A Paradise Built in Hell Rebecca Solnit’s latest book explores communities that rise to the challenge of disaster.   READ AN EXCERPT… :: How Kindness Trumped Chaos in New Orleans Lessons in dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina. By Rebecca Solnit.   Web Picks   PHOTO ESSAYS Banksy Street Art British street artist, Banksy, makes his mark in New Orleans. The Road to Women’s Suffrage Remembering the long fight for a woman’s right to vote. VIDEO “Love Harder” Van Jones addresses the Netroots Nation conference, sharing his ways to “put Americans back to work and pull America back together.” How to Be Alone What can we learn about ourselves when we let go of our fear of loneliness. A poet offers her advice in this quirky video. Fallen Fruit Fruit from trees on public land is free for the picking. Fallen Fruit’s maps show locals where to find it. Pete Seeger: Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In As Willie Nelson taught us, you just can’t play a sad song on a banjo. Folk legend Pete Seeger unveils his newest protest song.   We Can Help!    5 Ways You Can Help Pakistan (and the Rest of Us) The Pakistani people need our help. Here’s how we can help now and also reduce the number of future disasters. By Sarah van Gelder. 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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