WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  HAPPINESS   The Endangered Repairman Shannon Hayes   |   Nov 23, 2012 Getting your stuff fixed instead of throwing it away is good for the environment as well as for your bank balance. So why is this craft dying out in America?   MORE » Connect With Your Family Across the Table—and the Political Divide Joan Blades   |   Nov 21, 2012 Is it possible to gracefully navigate the potential minefield of political discussions at family gatherings? Suspending judgment, looking for common ground, and speaking from the heart can help. After all, these are people you love.   MORE » YES! Magazine’s Green Holiday Gift Guide Nov 21, 2012 Our guide to gifts that are thoughtful, fun, creative, and sustainable: Including tips, how-tos, books, and more for earth-friendly celebrating this year and beyond.   MORE » I Am Grateful That Thorns Have Roses: 11 Reasons to Remember Thankfulness Nov 20, 2012 Studies show that gratitude has an inverse correlation with depression—the more grateful you are, the happier you are. Eleven thinkers, throughout the ages, on why being thankful matters.   MORE » PEOPLE POWER   Walmart’s Summer of Discontent Explodes in Black Friday Strikes Cecilia Garza   |   Nov 22, 2012 Over the past year a diverse coalition of groups representing Walmart workers have broken decades of silence and united to confront the company. Now, organizers expect more than 1,000 strikes on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   Can a “Dracula Strategy” Bring Trans-Pacific Partnership into the Sunlight? Lori Wallach   |   Nov 21, 2012 A highly secretive trade agreement aims to penalize countries that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. Luckily, the growing opposition goes beyond the usual trade justice suspects.   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE   Can U.S. Citizens End Israel’s Legal Impunity? Stephen Zunes   |   Nov 20, 2012 Each time international law has attempted to censure Israel for its recent violations of human rights, the United States has stepped in to stop the process. If anyone is in a position to do something about this, it’s the U.S. public.   MORE » PLANET   BP’s Civil Fines Could be 10 Times Larger than Record Criminal Penalty Signe Predmore   |   Nov 20, 2012 The $4.5 billion oil giant BP has agreed to pay out for criminal misconduct related to the Deepwater Horizon spill is too small to change the company’s business model. Yet more and bigger payments are likely to come.   MORE » To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead Sarah van Gelder   |   Nov 19, 2012 It takes humility to recognize that what we’ve called progress isn’t always for the better. Sometimes nature’s original idea was a better one.   MORE » From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges Sven Eberlein   |   Nov 19, 2012 Can a boat be designed to clean the water? How does a spider manufacture resilient fiber? We need products that don’t harm us or the environment, and nature’s already done the research.   MORE » VIDEO OF THE WEEK    Is Time With Family Better Than Shopping? Nov 21, 2012 Video: This Black Friday, celebrate your favorite non-shopping activity with this invitation from The Story of Stuff Project.   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