Why I Give – David Markham
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
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The Work of Breaking Free
A conversation with YES! Media Executive Director Christine Hanna and Casey Camp-Horinek, Environmental Ambassador, Matriarch and Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma.
Survival as Transformative Justice: “Live and Work and Be Free and Heal”
Transformative Justice is not just replacing the cops. It’s a completely different worldview.
Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs?
For decades, Americans have been told they should love their jobs. But is this a healthy relationship?
Tough Love for Mediocre White Guys
Getting White men to give up dominance is a challenge.
Closing the Digital Divide
How communities are addressing the digital divide equitably and quickly.
How to Get Rid of Throwaway Culture
Waste is built into modern culture. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Wildflower Apothecary Recipes
Meet seven deserving medicinal wildflowers to invite into your world.
Toward Disability Justice
Don’t forget the plastic that gives me freedom.
View From a Tiny Deep-Sea Diver
I hope to inspire people to want to change, to cut off their plastic usage little by little.
The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint
Big Oil says citizens should do more to stop climate change.
What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?
Other countries get creative.
One of the World’s Biggest Cities Outlawed Single-Use Plastic
Mexico City’s 22 million people discovered change is not that simple.
What Comes After This Plastic-Filled Pandemic?
A new generation of medical professionals is tasked with undoing decades of hospitals’ easy reliance on single-use plastic.
Toward Eco-Social Justice
The disconnection and buried shame that hold us back.
Should I Wear Plants or Plastic?
Textiles are the second largest source of plastic waste.
Don’t Let Consumerism Co-opt the Zero-Waste Concept
The movement began as anti-consumerist. Yet now there are marketing ploys, feelings of inadequacy, and misplaced responsibility.
Plastic World or Plastic-Free World?
The plastic crisis is tied not only to ecological destruction, but also drives systemic injustice.
With plastic’s fall, will we rise?
Introduction: The Solving Plastic Issue
In this issue we explore the history of plastic, its global impacts, and some of the most inspiring solutions we’ve come across.
Why I Give – MaryEllen Wilson
MaryEllen Wilson became a regular supporter of YES! in 2020, shortly after discovering two old issues. Retired from a busy career, she now spends her time reading, writing, knitting, painting,
“I Have Decided to Stick with Love”
Dear Reader, Today, I am thinking about love. A fraught, confusing, full-of-potential kind of love. It’s like this: I’m writing to you on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.,
Readers Respond – Winter 2021
Winter 2021: What the Rest of the World Knows The Better Ideas issue sparked conversations about potential solutions to some of the ongoing challenges facing the United States, from our
YES! Issue Contributors – Ecological Civilization
Jeremy Lent is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current existential crisis. His recent book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural
Evolving Into an Ecologically Civilized State of Mind
David evolved from a self-described “conservative young Republican” who traveled the world hoping to “save” other cultures from communism, to a collaborative thought leader who calls out the outsized influence of corporations and passionately advocates for global societies to move toward an ecological civilization.
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