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Health Care or Corporate Profits signspacerHealth Care for All
Why businesses and economists are backing the health care "public option."
Banner of Beavan's No Impact man blogspacerOur Best Shot at Climate Leadership
Will the U.S. lead on confronting climate change, or not? The House has passed a landmark bill. Now it's on to the Senate. Colin Beavan explains what ACES means, and why you should know about it.
Greg Silver, MD (Fl.), member of PNHPspacerDoctors Just Want to Be Doctors
Why most physicians want real health care reform.
The New Economy: Summer Issue
money creation YES! graphicspacerWhere Does Your Money Come From?
See and understand how banks create money out of thin air.
31 Ways to Jump Start the Local Economy Posterspacer31 Ways to Jump Start the Local Economy
How we can make it with less, share more, and put people and the planet first.
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money man, YES! graphicspacerJust the Facts
Why we can't go back to the old economy…
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clothing swapspacerThrift and Shift
Green America's Alisa Gravitz shares her economic change recipe for our time.
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933spacerPeople Power Pushed the New Deal
Roosevelt didn’t come up with all those progressive programs on his own.
David KortenspacerWhy This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance
Let Wall Street go and rebuild a Main Street economy.
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DAVID READS FROM HIS LATEST BOOK
Omar FreillaspacerOwn Your Job: Worker Co-ops
Look who’s providing stable sources of employment, goods, and services today:
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:: GREEN TREASURE IN THE SOUTH BRONX
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:: RECOVERY IN CLEVELAND
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:: A CO-OPERATIVE CORPORATION
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The late Thomas BerryspacerA Tribute to Thomas Berry, Scholar, Visionary, Planet Lover
Thomas Berry, one of the great philosophers of our time, left us with a story of the emergence of the universe and our extraordinary place in its unfolding.
Mousavi supporters, Iranian presidential election 2009, photo wikimediaspacerIran's Stolen Election Has Sparked an Uprising—What Should the U.S. Do?
by Stephen Zunes
It is the Iranian people alone who have the right and the capability to reform or bring down the country’s increasingly illegitimate regime and establish a more just and democratic society.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, photo wikimediaspacerThe Iranian Election Appears to Be Over: What Next for U.S. Policy?
by Robert Naiman
The Administration is affirming that its efforts to engage Iran diplomatically will go forward, regardless of the election results.
Ellen BrownspacerOut of the Ashes of GM: the Phoenix of Renewable Energy
America now owns a car company. To put it to good use—building energy efficient vehicles and alternative energy devices—we just need to own a bank.
Rosie the Riveter. Poster by J. Howard Miller for the War Production Co-ordinating Committee, 1942spacerJump Start Racial Justice
The Supreme Court debate shows we have lots of work left to do on race. Here are two strategies that can get us started.
Rosie the Riveter. Poster by J. Howard Miller for the War Production Co-ordinating Committee, 1942spacerThe Climate Crisis: What if We Did Everything We Can Imagine?
As the coal industry tries to tell Americans what is and is not possible, all of us need to put our hands and our imaginations to work.
Bicycle drawing, wikimedia commons, spacerA New Bike-Friendly Commuter Law
The 180-member Bicycle Caucus in Congress has lobbied successfully to get bike infrastructure funding into the stimulus package, and in January, they passed a bike-friendly commuter law.
Paul HawkenspacerYou are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring
Paul Hawken's inspiring Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, University of Portland.
Climate Solutions
Beyond Lightbulbs: How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 YearsBeyond Lightbulbs: Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
Meet the Joneses: find out how an average family can get carbon-free in 10 years, without turning their lives upside-down. A decade from now, maybe the Joneses new way of life will be the new American average.
13 Best Energy Ideas13 Best Energy Ideas
Energy policies and technologies that can get us on the path toward a sustainable future (plus a few that won’t)
Food For Everyone
Prepping cornspacer8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
How to turn a lawn into lunch, swap preserves, glean, boost your food security, live the good life.
Growing Power’s Grant Park Harvest Celebration in Downtown ChicagospacerGrowing Power in an Urban Food Desert
Growing Power is the leading urban agriculture project in the U.S. It doesn’t just talk about what needs to be changed, it’s accomplishing it.
Deatil from YES! Magazine's Community Food PosterspacerEverybody Eats: Community Food Poster
It begins with small farms working with natural cycles and ends with fresh food and stronger communities in nearby cities.
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fresh school food in Belo HorizontespacerThe City that Ended Hunger
For a penny a day per resident, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, makes sure everyone is fed. What’s most startling? It’s easy.
Sustainable Happiness
10 things to make you happy, YES! Magazine interactive graphicspacer10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
Scientists can tell us how to be happy. Here are 10 ways, with the research to prove it.
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Health Care :: Health Care For All
Health Care graphicspacerHealth Care Options at a Glance
We outspend the world to buy and under-performing system. But how do other countries do it so much better? Here is a quick fact sheet of other systems.
Purple America :: Across the Divide
David KortenspacerWe Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect
It's not just the Golden Rule; it's hard-wired into our brains: we can't help caring about each other.

Foreign Policy :: Beyond Superpower
A veteran, Photo by Joseph O. HolmesspacerHeal the Warrior, Heal the Country
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
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Life in Iran
See the people behind the headlines in our YES! photo essays of Life in Iran.

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Iranian schoolgirls. Photo by Abdi Sami
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