WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  PLANET   How to Build Green on a Budget Jennifer Atlee   |   May 25, 2012 The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable.   MORE » A Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees? Shannan Stoll   |   May 24, 2012 Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk.    MORE » Real Homes: Small, Frugal, and Green Doug Pibel   |   May 23, 2012 With 5 million houses in foreclosure, we are rediscovering that living sustainably includes living affordably.    MORE » NEW ECONOMY   Treaty Like It’s 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade Raj Patel   |   May 25, 2012 From Japan, Raj Patel on the expansion of the Trans-Pacific trade agreement and the homegrown battle to stop it.   MORE » The Rise of the New Economy Movement Gar Alperovitz   |   May 23, 2012 There’s economic reform, and then there’s economic transformation. How entrepreneurs, activists, and theorists are laying the groundwork for a very different economy.   MORE » A Fair Trade iPad? How Apple Could Change the Industry's Game Heidi Bruce   |   May 01, 2012 This year's public outcry against Apple and Foxconn factory conditions might finally point electronics production in a fairer direction.   MORE » HAPPINESS   We’ve Got Some Big Houses—That We Could Share Doug Pibel   |   May 24, 2012 Just 60 years ago, the average American had 291 square feet of living space. Now it’s close to 1,000 square feet. Have we changed our needs that much? Or just our wants?   MORE » Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games” Jeremy Adam Smith   |   May 18, 2012 The dystopian tale is really about compassion, empathy, and cooperation, argues Jeremy Adam Smith—and there's scientific reason for that.   MORE » PEOPLE POWER   Creating Change is the People’s Job Deepak Bhargava   |   May 23, 2012 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?   MORE » Fighting Foreclosure Together Laura Gottesdiener   |   May 21, 2012 The demand for housing justice is bringing activists from different ideologies together to fight—and win—against foreclosures.   MORE » VIDEO OF THE WEEK    Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism May 01, 2012 Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people.   MORE » YES! Magazine  ::  www.yesmagazine.org 284 Madrona Way NE, Suite 116, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2870, USA CONTACT US VIA EMAIL   ::  Phone: 206-842-0216 / 1-800 937 4451 We never sell or share our email list. To remove yourself from this list, go back to your email and click the unsubscribe link at the top.  Please add yesnewsletters@yesmagazine.org to your email address book to ensure delivery.   If this email was forwarded to you, sign up for your own YES! Magazine newsletters Each quarter, YES! Magazine takes on today’s critical issues with a fresh and positive point of view. Our stories fuse powerful ideas and practical actions, and inspire people to create a better world. YES! is an independent, non-profit, ad-free magazine printed on 100% post-consumer-waste paper. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT THIS SPECIAL RATE