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Living simply can help us challenge society’s inequities, live in alignment with nature, and build community.
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Changes in public attitudes toward the death penalty include factors like technological change and urbanization. But strategic actions by impassioned advocates can appeal to the public’s compassion.
This history is visible, but only if you know where to look.
Gaza has been forced to rely on high-efficiency solutions for political reasons. Soon, the rest of the world will have to do so for climate-related reasons.
Americans who completely or mostly believe the central tenets of the QAnon conspiracy theory (that the United States is run by Satanic pedophiles, a coming political storm will restore Donald Trump
3 composters who are thinking about the soil as well as better food waste systems.
What are you willing to give up?
One parcel at a time, Bay Area activists are pushing for land trust housing to decommodify land and take properties out of an unjust market.
Stan Cox is a research scholar in ecosphere studies at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. His six books include The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics
Summer 2021: The Solving Plastic Issue Our summer issue took on one of the most pervasive problems facing our planet today: plastic pollution. We uncovered what happens to exported U.S. plastic
David Markham recently bought six boxes—300 copies—of YES! Magazine to give away. That caught our attention! What did he plan to do with so many copies? It turns out David’s
Dear Reader, When I was in my mid-20s, with an MBA in hand and just off a wild ride with a dot-com startup that left me with a pile of
For mixed-race people, especially those of us who have one White parent, the answers to questions of identity can be confusing to sort out.
Congress members getting arrested is nothing new. It’s just the latest iteration of suppressing Black people’s voting rights.
Get clued in on a cross-section of Black people’s accomplishments, in business and beyond.
A Native writer finds meaningful connections between his heritage and his love for a show about bad movies and goofy robots.
The Sámi people of Northern Sweden oppose geoengineering as a solution to climate change because they say it follows the same logic that produced the climate crisis in the first place.
During the pandemic shutdown, only government protection kept many people in their homes. That shield is gone now.
Engaging residents opens the opportunity for them to thrive despite the ever-increasing climate emergency.
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