If we really want to fix the environment, then we need to join coalitions with organizations that focus on changing our economic system too.
A proposed community-owned solar project on an abandoned coal mine in Arizona illustrates how cooperative economomics make it possible to stop extracting fossil fuels鈥攚ithout leaving workers behind.
How can potential leaders from underprivileged backgrounds tackle economic inequality and climate change when they spend most of their time trying to earn a decent living? Here鈥檚 what we learned in Massachusetts.
Why ferment? It鈥檚 practical magic. Here are a few basics to get you started.
Rather than feeling guilty for not giving each child everything they deserve, I will feel gratitude for the grace with which they accept my limits.
National People鈥檚 Action Campaign is training the next wave of progressive candidates for 2016. Here鈥檚 how they could win.
This article was produced in partnership with the New Economy Coalition as part of the 2014 New Economy Week. Each day this week, YES! will publish articles responding to different
While worker-owned co-ops provide a significant chunk of employment in several European countries, in the United States we still have a ways to go. Fortunately, opportunities for growth are everywhere.
The attempt to solve our ecological and social crises through economic growth is a fool鈥檚 task, because both crises have a common cause: an infinite-planet, perpetual-growth economy has met the limits of a finite planet.
Many opportunities exist for collaboration between the movements for racial justice and for an economy that works for everyone.
Those who have suffered the most at the hands of an unfair economy are also the most experienced at imagining and building alternative futures.
Why did some of the cooperative institutions built in the 鈥�70s鈥攅specially food co-ops鈥攇et to scale and thrive in subsequent decades, while others faded away?
鈥淥ur full humanity is expressed only when we have the capacity and the opportunity to be productive, to do for ourselves, meeting our needs in our communities.鈥�
Next Monday, YES! and the New Economy Coalition kick off New Economy Week鈥攆ive days of national conversation about the ideas, strategies, and projects that make up the movement.
The poverty rate in the U.S. would be 15 percent higher if not for the War on Poverty and government anti-poverty programs since 1967.
鈥淏efore I was on SNAP, I budgeted $50 a week for all groceries for my two children and myself. This was for food, shampoo, toilet paper, everything.鈥�
In the evolving global economy, migrants facing virtual indentured servitude abroad鈥攁nd coming home to debt and social isolation鈥攆eels like the new normal.
Brought on by the sound of a screaming child, I reflect on my past, my community, and how we can become our true selves without fleeing our roots.
From people who are still literally marching to campaigns to sue the government for failing to take action on climate change, these projects make it clear that the People鈥檚 Climate March was just the beginning.
鈥淲e need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level鈥攖o the level of human rights.鈥�
In this interview, the founder of the Bioneers conference talks about what he鈥檚 learned in 25 years of bringing thinkers together.
Naomi Klein鈥檚 powerful new book explains why not only can the climate movement win鈥攂ut it鈥檚 our best chance at overturning some of history鈥檚 greatest injustices.
Our experience strengthened our resolve to fight for housing as a human right.
New scientific research increasingly shows how 鈥渁groecology鈥� offers environmentally sustainable methods that can meet the rapidly growing demand for food.
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