WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  PLANET   Romney’s Dirtier, Deadlier Energy Future: Is There Another Way? Sarah van Gelder   |   Aug 24, 2012 The oil-dependent economy Romney supports is a step toward a less stable, more costly future. Renewables and energy efficiency offer real hope.   MORE » Why We’re Putting Ourselves on the (Pipe)Line With the Tea Party Will Wooten, Candice Bernd, Ron Seifert   |   Aug 24, 2012 Occupiers, Tea Partiers, landowners, and environmentalists are challenging construction of the Keystone XL pipeline’s Gulf Coast segment—together.   MORE » After the Drought: Will Climate Reporting Take Off? Heidi Bruce   |   Aug 22, 2012 After the release of a report on links between extreme weather and climate change, Americans may get what polls show 80 percent of us want: more environmental reporting in mainstream news.   MORE » PEOPLE POWER   How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election Greg Palast   |   Aug 24, 2012 It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.   MORE » Fare Play: Transit Rights Are Civil Rights for L.A.’s Bus Riders Eric Mann   |   Aug 23, 2012 Is access to bus service a civil rights issue? These Los Angeles riders think so—and they're taking it to the White House.   MORE » Disaster by Design? What’s Wrong with the “Thrive” Movement John Robbins   |   Aug 21, 2012 A popular new film claims that a secret elite create our most troubling problems to advance a “global domination agenda.” Why Amy Goodman, Vandana Shiva, and other progressives are calling it “dangerously misguided.”   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE   The Dark Side of the “Green Economy” Jeff Conant   |   Aug 23, 2012 Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the “green economy.”   MORE » HAPPINESS   Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body Claudia Rowe   |   Aug 21, 2012 New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.   MORE » The Body Politic Madeline Ostrander   |   Aug 21, 2012 Taking charge of our bodies means more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.   MORE » VIDEO OF THE WEEK    Breaking Through Concrete: An Urban Farm Roadtrip Aug 17, 2012 Farmers across the country are taking to rooftops, vacant lots, any space they can find to build an urban farm revival.   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