We must call for what we really need—an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction.
In this TED Talk, 2013 TED Prize Winner Sugata Mitra believes that a child-driven education is the best way for kids to learn. Mitra shares his findings from his Granny Cloud and Hole in the Wall projects.
Governments usually use eminent domain powers to displace people. But one hardscrabble Bay Area city is going to the mat to do just the opposite—stabilize its economy and keep residents where they are.
Are we starting to see a cultural shift in how our society thinks about rape? The huge online response to a Slate columnist who told women to avoid rape by not drinking suggests that it's starting to happen.
This week, the Nobel Prize for economics may have gone to three academics, but the real work of fixing our local economies was happening on the ground—as part of New Economy Week.
In case you were distracted by Tea Party antics this week, here's a rundown of important developments in GMOs, sustainable farming, and other food news.
The Trans Pacific Partnership is likely to be a setback for efforts to regulate and label GMO foods.
The best measure of the value of a thing may be this: “How many ways can I use this? How many other things will I not have to buy?”
Self-reliant farmer types may not think they need help from the government. But they need affordable health insurance at least as much as the rest of us.
Three states have already dropped Columbus Day, while a movement begins to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead.
Two sections that essentially told kids that coal was safe and good for the environment disappeared today from the website of a state agency in Illinois.
In this rare television interview, the poet, farmer, and activist Wendell Berry discusses his vision for a society in harmony with the planet.
Of course the media needs to start talking honestly about climate change. But there's more to the issue than just gloom and doom.
For those in the intelligence community who want to come forward about government lawbreaking, Edward Snowden made it clear that they're not alone.
Our throwaway electronics harm people overseas, but new trends in responsible design are not just smart—they’re kind.
We caught up with the primatologist and activist at the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit, where she was helping to draft a declaration on how to move forward on climate change.
After decades of exclusion, home care workers are finally covered by federal minimum wage laws. Anyone who works for social change can learn from how they did it.
The idea of having a baby boy scared me: What kind of man will he grow up to be? Here’s what I learned about what it takes to raise compassionate men.
So unchecked campaign spending has played a role in today’s political chaos, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC could make things way, way worse. Now here’s the good news.
In one of our favorite responses to the government shutdown, this group of EPA staffers in Georgia went DIY on a local creek.
Many Latino immigrants have agriculture in their past. A market in suburban Maryland makes it possible for them to put that knowledge to work in the here and now.
Marie Hogan confronted Hershey’s about using children in its supply chain because she cares about other kids, fairness—and candy. Here’s what we can learn from her.
Fair trade is good, but it still leaves cocoa growers in poverty. Here’s how to do better.
With a string of powerful similes, poet Dylan Garity lets us know what life is like for Boston students who are trying to learn English.
In our new series, YES! Magazine investigates what it will take to strengthen our local economies for the benefit of all.
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