This insightful article from Yes! Magazine explores how online activism can help us understand how real change is made.
Stories that Light Up the Dark
The experiences of our ancestors offer us wisdom for surviving today’s crises.
A Month Without Monsanto
April Dávila wondered what it would take to cut the GMO giant out of her family’s life. She found that it was far more entrenched than she’d ever realized.
Share Your Stuff
From socks to cars to skills, how sharing and swapping gives you more.
Get Free From Wall Street: An Interview With David Korten
David Korten’s 1995 bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, was a key document in building the anti-globalization movement. In the aftermath of the 2008 economic meltdown, he wrote Agenda for a New Economy, a critique of the overwhelming influence of Wall Street on economic policy, which has resulted in a political system that serves, not the many, but the very wealthy few. Now, Korten is back with a strategy for taking back our political and economic systems and using them to create localized, community-controlled economies that foster the things we really need.
At Last, a Human Right to Water
Today is Blog Action Day! Bloggers around the globe are posting about the same issue on the same day with the goal of “sparking a global discussion and driving collective action.” This year’s topic is water, and the following article published on in July in Yes Magazine! is so important it needs to be read and read again, and again.
I Hate Handstands
“Yoga uncovers hidden parts of yourself, then shifts your life,” writes guest author Marylee Graffeo Fairbanks. “It summons the lessons needed lessons for transformation. We can resist, but the longer we take to see the harder the lessons get.
10 Ways to Celebrate 10/10/10
10.10.10 has been designated by organizations like 350.org as a Global Work Party to take action for our planet. 350’s message to the world is: “STARTING NOW, people at 7347 events in 188 countries are getting to work on the climate crisis. People are digging community gardens, installing solar panels, planting trees, riding bikes instead of driving, doing beach clean-ups and more. We’re sending a clear message to our political leaders: “If we can get to work, so can you!”
A History of Happiness
I think it is probably fair to assume that most Americans today consider happiness not only something that would be nice to have, but something that we really ought to have—and, moreover, something that’s within our power to bring about, if only we set our minds to it. We can be happy, we tell ourselves, teeth gritted. We should be happy. We will be happy.
My Lucky Pants
Losing your pants during an interview isn’t the worse thing that can happen as our newest writer, Snotty McSnotterson, discovers when she unearths her “lucky pants” for the occasion.