The Economy: Under New Ownership
How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
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People We Love
Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony—in the city.
Why Canada’s Indigenous Uprising Is About All of Us
When a new law paved the way for tar sands pipelines and other fossil fuel development on native lands, four women swore to be “idle no more.” The idea took off.
From the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence
Beneath mainstream culture runs a current of domination, individualism, and exclusion that is harming our children. We assume this is normal—but is it really?
People We Love: Asa Needle
Leading teenagers in the clean-up of their hometown, Worcester, Mass.
People We Love: Leia Lewis Henderson
Nurturing African-American culture through gardening.
12 Steps to Create a Backyard Permaculture
Author Peter Bane grew more than 150 species on less than 2,000 square feet. Here are 12 steps to get you there.
Quote: Occupy Oakland
A quote from Occupy Oakland, from How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy, the Spring 2013 issue of YES! Magazine. Download it here.
People We Love: Sarah Bergmann
Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.
Film Review: Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl
The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.
The Page That Counts: Spring 2013
Miles flown by a bar-tailed godwit in the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded: 7,200. Miles flown in the world’s longest nonstop, non-refueled helicopter flight: 2,213.
Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account)
What I learned about love from a hermaphrodite, a cannibal, and a dizzyingly diverse array of sea creatures.
You Are Where You Live
How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.
People Used to Sleep Twice a Night, With a Break in Between: 7 Ways to Connect With Our Wild Human Roots
Color like a butterfly, eat like an ancient healer, and other ways to rediscover your inner wildness.
What Would Nature Do? Not Wall Street
Models for a healthy down-to-earth economy are all around us.
Book Review: Inside Will Allen’s Good Food Revolution
Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.
Want Sustainable Fish? Barn-Raised
Aquaponics takes advantage of nature’s processes to fill Americans’ growing appetite for fish—without overfishing or destructive farming.
Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the City
How to create a world where people fly, salamanders text, and trash is useful.
A Living Sewage Treatment Plant? These People Grew One
Every flush of a standard toilet creates a several-gallon problem. Instead of wasting water, plants and animals can transform human waste into water rated pure enough to drink.
Invasive Species: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ’em
Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.
5 Parlor Games to Make Your Gatherings More Fun
Spoons, sardines, telephone charades, and other activities to put a boost in your get-togethers.
“You Are Safe With Us”: How Ordinary Iraqis Rescued U.S. Civilians in the Midst of War
In 2003, Iraqi townspeople, having just lost their hospital in U.S. air strikes, saved the lives of three wounded U.S. peacemakers. Seven years later, the Americans returned—to thank them.
Pete Seeger: “You Stick Together ’Til It’s Won”
Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, “Pete Seeger: In His Own Words” reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges
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.
To Save Our Ecosystems, Stop Overloading Them
Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.
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