Erin Sagen
Erin Sagen
is a freelancer and former associate editor at YES! She lives in Seattle and writes about food, health, and suburban sustainability.
Erin Sagen
Obtaining medically accurate information about abortion can be difficult yet dire for pregnant people desperate for answers.
Celebrating only “strong” women and nonbinary people doesn’t advance the cause of feminism or gender equality.
While we debate abortion, women are dying in childbirth.
Even as the U.S. rate of infant mortality has decreased, the rate of maternal mortality has increased. Here’s what male-dominated medicine has to do with it.
I decided to search for two words on the article’s web page: “patriarchy” or “misogyny.” Zero results.
A way to get and give free stuff with your neighbors that is time-consuming, inconvenient—and wonderful.
Are you going to eat that? Because the food industrial complex is the stuff of nightmares.
Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Climate change is getting worse, and policymakers are ignoring one of the biggest factors.
You decide. Send us your ideas by March 14.
Three creative ways to strengthen local food economies.
I’ve learned that when we’re vulnerable, when we’re unsure about the world and our place in it, food is the way back home.
The future for suburbanites, who now have twice the carbon footprint of city dwellers, seems to be pointing backward to pre-automobile, train-based living.
How getting rid of two-thirds of my belongings created more space for joy.
As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands, indigenous communities are exchanging seeds in hopes of finding the hardiest varieties.
Food can no longer be dismissed as niche news. It’s universal, vital, and urgent—and this film drives that point home.
Devices we use every day are turning our personal data over to huge corporations. But can we win our privacy back?
Can a licensing deal between Sesame Street and the Produce Marketing Association truly improve childhood health? Maybe, but grassroots solutions already exist.
In case you were distracted by Tea Party antics this week, here's a rundown of important developments in GMOs, sustainable farming, and other food news.
If Initiative 522 succeeds, it could push manufacturers nationwide to begin labeling foods that contain genetically modified organisms.