Remembering Rebecca Tarbotton
A tribute to the beloved environmentalist, human right activist, and executive director of the Rainforest Action Network.
Environment
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.
Your Body is a Body of Water
A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
YES! Recommends: Nourish
Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth.
Detroit’s Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
5 Tools (and 1 Animal) for Quieter, Healthier Yard Work
Tending your yard doesn’t have to be noisy, irritating, or fuel-intensive. Here’s how you can unplug.
How to Save Bats in Your Own Backyard
Bats are mammals, shy creatures of the night, and fascinating to watch. They’re also endangered by loss of habitat, disease, and pesticide poisoning. You can help by providing protection.
Why the Military Can’t Deny Climate Change
Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?
How to Build Green on a Budget
The challenge: build the greenest houses on earth—and make them affordable.
Real Homes: Small, Frugal, and Green
With 5 million houses in foreclosure, we are rediscovering that living sustainably includes living affordably.
6 Tips for Sustainable Pet Care
Low-cost and natural ways to care for your critters.
Free Your (Eco)Mind
This Earth Day, think like an ecosystem—and you just might save the world.
Boulder Votes to Free Its Electric Company
Running their own utility means sun and wind energy instead of coal.
Farmers Go Wild
Going beyond organic, a new generation of farmers is nurturing nature as well as crops.
A Bold Win Against Big Oil
How people power stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Tim DeChristopher: Sacrifice for the Climate
It’s a blessing to risk it all to stop climate change—even if it means jail time.
Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America
Bringing renewable energy and jobs to reservations.
Jason F. McLennan: Bringing Buildings to Life
Designing the world’s greenest building standards.
Wes Jackson: A Perennial Revolution in Agriculture
Revolutionizing agriculture with crops that grow like a prairie.
The Innocence Project and Prison Food
Use the Innocence Project’s interactive resources to understand the causes of wrongful convictions and exonerations, and see how your school's cafeteria food measures up to prison food with this tell-it-like-it is infographic.
Wildlife Right of Way
Big mammals shouldn't be a casualty of modern society. They could make a comeback—if we give them what they need most: room to roam.
Jane Goodall’s 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals
YES! asked Jane Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
Joel Salatin: How to Eat Animals and Respect Them, Too
Why this foodie farmer believes sustainable farming includes meat.
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