Empathy Love Your Person (and the Planet) This Valentine’s Day Flowers, chocolates, and jewelry are carbon-intensive ways to show your love. Try these alternatives instead. Breanna Draxler | Feb 14, 2024
How Corporations Attempt to Co-opt Buddhism Companies like Amazon and Google present mindfulness as a secular technology for stress relief. But authentic Buddhism cannot be harmed. Curtis White | Jan 24, 2023
Murmurations Murmurations: Grow the Chorus adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they’ve learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what’s to come. adrienne maree brown | Dec 28, 2022
8 Books for Insight and Inspiration YES! staff members recommend reads that provoke thought and prompt action. YES! Staff | Dec 14, 2022
Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life The pull of solving problems is nearly irresistible, but we should prioritize relationships with our environment. Madelaine Ley | Dec 12, 2022
Oracle Cards Inspired by the Earth An ecological card deck offers wise teachings and prompts healing. Corinne Manning | Dec 8, 2022
Racial Justice Black and Unapologetic in Nature “My journeys in nature have been profound experiences of Black people coming together to cultivate healing, community, and joy.” Julius Crowe Hampton | Nov 25, 2022
Rediscovering the Family Wisdom of Yoga As a stressed young adult, I reconnected with my family's yoga practices to help with healing and sleep. Rina Deshpande | Oct 31, 2022
Consumerism Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance? Gabes Torres | Oct 26, 2022
Why You Should Write That Thank You Note An attitude of gratitude may relieve stress, which in turn may lead to better health. Richard Gunderman | Sep 23, 2022
Growing From Labor to Leisure How mindfulness can help balance the toil of farm life. Quincy Gray McMichael | May 18, 2022
Mental health How to Build Resilience to Shame Today’s hustle culture claims “unearned” pleasure is shameful. But there are ways to resist this cultural response. Joaquín Andrés Selva | May 18, 2022
Racial Justice A Journey From Rage to Mindfulness An approach to examining systems, navigating emotional distress, and increasing social harmony. Ruth King | Feb 16, 2022
Mental health How to Transform the Way You Experience Winter “Rather than letting our relationship with nature extinguish itself during the cold, wet, dark days, we need to take special care to keep it kindled.” Natasha Deganello Giraudie | Feb 10, 2022
Mindfulness in Life and Death Thich Nhat Hanh, who taught mindfulness for decades, approached death in that same spirit. Brooke Schedneck | Jan 24, 2022
A Multi-Cultural Perspective on Gratitude Learning from other languages and cultures of gratitude, perhaps Americans can make “thank you” less casual and more heartfelt. Elaine Hsieh, Jeremy David Engels | Nov 25, 2021
Native rights | Indigenous lands The Enchantment of Ceremony An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness. Linda Hogan | Feb 12, 2021
Mental health How to Nourish Your Resilience in a Time of Trauma These daily actions can help heal your nervous system for right action instead of reaction. Staci K. Haines | Sep 30, 2020
Mental health Stuck at Home? Try Making a Comic In her new book, beloved comics artist Lynda Barry encourages your inner storyteller. Lynda Barry | May 6, 2020
Minimum Viable Planet | Mental health Language Matters! A weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. Sarah Lazarovic | May 1, 2020
Coronavirus | Mental health Balancing Grief and Joy in a Time of Uncertainty Be it through mutual aid, healing circles, grief rituals, or direct actions, we grow our resilience when we gather with the intention of holding one another’s wholeness. Kate Werning | Apr 28, 2020
Minimum Viable Planet Sludge Is a Grosser Word Than Moist A weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. Sarah Lazarovic | Apr 15, 2020
Virtual or Not, a Passover Seder for the Earth This year, many people will have Passover Seder over the internet rather than in the physical company of friends and family. Rabbi Ellen Bernstein | Apr 8, 2020
Minimum Viable Planet | Mental health Stewing on Doing A weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. Sarah Lazarovic | Apr 3, 2020
Coronavirus 4 Ways to Socialize and Build Community While Stuck at Home Just because we cannot be physically present in each other’s lives doesn’t mean we have to lose our sense of kinship and interdependence. Naoise O’Faoláin | Mar 25, 2020