WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  PEOPLE POWER   The Power of Training for Direct Action George Lakey   |   Jul 26, 2012 Training for acts of civil disobedience can delve deeper than the actions themselves.   MORE » HAPPINESS   What We Learned From Swimming With Leeches Shannon Hayes   |   Jul 25, 2012 The appearance of “bloodsucking parasites” in one farm family’s pond got them thinking: How could we be so comfortable with our natural world, yet paranoid about harmless—and helpful—creatures in it?   MORE » “Localization is the Economics of Happiness” Brooke Jarvis   |   Feb 16, 2011 We know what makes us happy—but too often our economic decisions stand in the way. Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of the Economics of Happiness and winner of the 2012 Goi Peace Award, on how to change all that.   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   Think Small: A New Housing Model Doug Pibel   |   Jul 24, 2012 Why go back to the way things were when we can create housing that embraces the best of tradition and the best of new thinking?   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE   Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising John Perkins   |   Jul 23, 2012 In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.   MORE » VIDEO OF THE WEEK    How Does Inequality Define the Health of a Nation? Jul 26, 2012 Richard Wilkinson discusses inequality and the effects it can have on a country’s citizens.   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