WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  WHAT WOULD NATURE DO?   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 » BODIES   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 » HOMES   6 Ideas for Sensible Homes May 09, 2012 Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.   MORE » CORPORATE RULE   Can There Be “Good” Corporations? Marjorie Kelly   |   Apr 16, 2012 When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.   MORE » PLANET   Dirty, Pricey, and Obsolete: Why Desalination Is Not Worth Its Salt Adam Scow   |   Dec 27, 2012 Efforts to curb the consumption of water are getting great results and making expensive desalination plants obsolete.   MORE » Four Steps to Less Wasteful Communities Fran Korten   |   Dec 26, 2012 The individual actions we take to reduce waste are important. But to stem the avalanche of stuff, we also need system-wide solutions.   MORE » 20 Machines for a DIY Civilization Dec 06, 2012 Video: Open Source Ecology has released free plans for building tractors, brick compressors, and other essential machines. Why pay more for stuff that's designed to fall apart?   MORE » More Than Nutritious: Why Organics Are Still Healthier Robin Broad, John Cavanagh   |   Nov 19, 2012 Two recent studies concluded that organic food is no more nutritious than non-organic food. But the value of organics involves health on multiple levels, from that of farmers to eaters to the planet itself.   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 » My Prices Are Not Too High: A Farmer Fires Back Shannon Hayes   |   Jan 30, 2012 Shannon Hayes: Why are my prices higher than those at the supermarket? Glad you asked.   MORE » HAPPINESS   Want to Find Holiday Joy? Start by Lowering Expectations Christine Carter   |   Dec 26, 2012 Video: Christine Carter offers three tips to avoid holiday stress and experience the joys of the season.   MORE » 7 Reasons Bikes Are for Everyone—Not Just “Cyclists” Christine Grant   |   Oct 24, 2012 Don’t let the spandex-clad iron men scare you off! Here are seven reasons why all types of people are biking to work—and why cities are encouraging them.   MORE » 10 Ways To Love Where You Live Ross Chapin   |   Jun 14, 2012 How to build community here and now—because neighborhoods are more than houses in proximity.   MORE » How to Fix Health Care Without the Mandate Sarah van Gelder   |   Apr 06, 2012 Why truly affordable care means single-payer.   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   4 Ways to Leap the “Fiscal Cliff” to a Better U.S.A. Sarah van Gelder   |   Dec 07, 2012 Sarah van Gelder looks beyond the hype about the deficit and finds four ways to balance the books while protecting our health and financial security.   MORE » Net Zero’s Net Worth: How Renewable Energy Is Rescuing Schools from Budget Cuts Erin L. McCoy   |   Nov 05, 2012 Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy.   MORE » Gar Alperovitz on Cooperative Economy: “I’ll Bet My Life on It” Oct 04, 2012 Gar Alperovitz was in Seattle for the annual meeting of the National Cooperative Business Association and spoke at Town Hall Seattle immediately following a live screening of the first presidential debate. YES! Magazine’s executive editor Sarah van Gelder introduced him.    MORE » America’s Deficit Attention Disorder David Korten   |   Aug 10, 2012 Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.   MORE » PEOPLE POWER   Occupy’s New Offshoot Set to Cancel Millions in Medical Debts Fabien Tepper   |   Nov 16, 2012 Medical debt is the cause of 62 percent of bankruptcies, say organizers of Strike Debt, which threw last night's offbeat fundraiser for their new “Rolling Jubilee.” Ordinary people donated enough money to collectively buy an estimated $5.9 million in bad debt in order to cancel it.    MORE » Meet the Crawfish-Peeling Guestworkers Who Inspired Walmart Walkouts Cecilia Garza   |   Oct 11, 2012 How a few courageous workers in small-town Louisiana sparked nationwide actions demanding better wages and working conditions for those who pick, pack, stock, and sell the mega-retailer’s products.   MORE » The Story of Change Annie Leonard   |   Jul 17, 2012 Can shopping save the world? Put down your credit card and start exercising your citizen muscles with Annie Leonard’s new film.   MORE » The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller Peter Dreier   |   Jul 12, 2012 Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE   Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You” Valerie Schloredt   |   Oct 02, 2012 The acclaimed novelist on why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.   MORE » Libyan People to Americans: “This Is Not the Behavior of Our Islam” Sep 13, 2012 Photo Essay: Amid the noise of escalating violence, Benghazi citizens speak for themselves: “This does not represent us.”   MORE » Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe Madeline Ostrander   |   May 10, 2012 Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance.   MORE » In Japan, a Mothers’ Movement Against Nuclear Power Heidi Hutner   |   Apr 25, 2012 The Fukushima disaster has brought a powerful new demographic to Japan’s anti-nuclear movement: mothers.   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