Large majorities of Americans agree on some of the most important issues of the day, from health care to war. "Ten Policies for a Better America" shows an agenda most of us can agree on鈥攚hether we think of ourselves as red, blue, or some other political color.
Surging prices, stagnant wages, spiraling debt. This is what stuck feels like.
Americans are under increasing economic pressure, and many feel powerless to do anything about it. David Sirota travels coast to coast and finds the people who know the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction--and are joining a populist uprising to turn it around
An agenda that puts people first.
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
First rule: Don鈥't panic. How to weather an economic storm and help make the transition to a less crisis-prone future.
Niceness is often filled with falseness鈥攊t is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. 鈥淏e nice!鈥 is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone鈥 it鈥檚 not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to ensure the universal right to clean water for all.
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules鈥攆air ones.
It鈥檚 called 鈥渄efense鈥 spending, but how much of it is actually about defense? Here鈥檚 how we could save billions, and still have billions left to make the U.S.
and the world more secure.
The U.S. spends piles of money on foreign aid, right? See how the spending actually stacks up.
Sarah van Gelder interviews former Secretary of State, George Shultz, who advocates abolition of nuclear weapons as the means to stop further proliferation and avert dangerous terrorism or all-out war.
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
Can we get to a post-carbon world? Guy Dauncey shows how to make buildings, electricity, transportation, food, and forests climate friendly. Yes, we can.
It turns out people are willing to make sacrifices to stop Global Warming: polling data from 23 countries confirms that people are ready to do what it takes.
Using algae for biofuels as a possible solution. The oil in algae can be converted into biodiesel and its carbohydrate components into ethanol.
Agrichar is another solution to reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
Climate’s Vicious Cycle A penguin walking on a melting glacier. Photo illustration by Hiroshi Howell/Getty Images We Are 2掳 from Disaster: How to Turn it Around Rising sea levels threaten
Who鈥檚 Responsible for 100 Years of CO2: Our YES! Magazine Graphic gives Just the Facts on global warming and global equity.
Over the past decade, a growing network of practitioners across Appalachia have chosen to live with horses in a utilitarian way. They are using horse power to practice 鈥渞estorative forestry.鈥
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
Practical tips on green burials, rain water collection, and vegetable storage without plastic.
In a 2007 interview, folk singer Pete Seeger talks about hitchhiking with Woody Guthrie, inspiring people with music, and the power of millions of small changes.
In the face of global warming it is hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says that speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity.
The Transition Town movement brings neighbors together to prepare their communities for a post-carbon world. And finds that "the future with less oil could be preferable."
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