Why is all this gloom and doom appearing in YES? The first step toward a positive future at the individual, community, society, or global level is to address seriously the problem at hand and take meaningful action.
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
The Lincoln-Dameron neighborhood in Prescott,
Arizona, encompasses roughly two blocks, including two
apartment buildings and 30 houses, the majority built in the
1930s. The neighborhood, which is built around the floodplain
of nearby Miller Creek, is home to six greywater systems, two
rainwater cisterns, five organic gardens, 25 heirloom fruit
trees, and (at last count) 57 chickens. Welome to Prescott's
"EcoHood".
Hopi and Iroquois prophecies draw on long
cultural memories, offering practical approaches to surviving
hard times.
Graphics showing climate change, financial
meltdown and peak oil
They don't like the occupation or the militias, and they aren't signing up for any political or religious faction. Instead, these Iraqis want to live with their neighbors in peace.
The work of peace building in South Africa and elsewhere is largely a rehumanizing process, calming fears by destroying dehumanizing stereotypes.
These are not simple. Reduce the economic insecurities that are fueling the anti-immigrant backlash in the United States.
In danger of losing their vote and voice, Americans are demanding a return to the founding principles.
On YES! Magazine's 10th anniversary, we look at trends that are changing our culture, our relationship to the earth, and our sense of self.
In growing numbers, Americans are rediscovering that the real meaning of the good life doesn't come from things they can buy but from things they can feel.
Why are farmers鈥� markets, community supported agriculture, direct farm-to-household marketing, organics, and humanely raised meats all on the increase?
As signs of climate change grow, and leaders lack political will to change course, people are acting in community to create a world that works for all.
A nonviolent army stands fast, watching over human rights in the midst of conflict, a model of courageous peace.
In post-Katrina New Orleans, will casinos, big business, and tourism displace people and the culture of the Big Easy? How will the city protect itself from future storms and rising seas? New Orleans could be rebuilt to serve its residents, poor and rich, and prosper in harmony with its watery ecosystem.
A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com
Although Las Posadas is a beautiful ritual, the reality it addresses is a painful one: the reality of human need and exclusion.
Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case,
95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and
practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in
recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our
origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and
his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit
that Jesus鈥� presence and teaching unleashed.
Is it time for Americans to build a culture that rejects empire and adopts the principles of the Jubilee?
An interview with Matthew Fox. Organized
religion needs to get its act together and bring in the
feminine, the widom of Sophia. See also his 95
theses.
Monitoring human rights abuses at checkpoints in occupied Palestine
Utah Phillips.聽 Photo provided by Fleming & Associates, Inc We met each other a number of years ago when Ani was doing a single in Philadelphia. She was playing at
What would you ask of the people who will care for you when you are unable to care for yourself?
Social security privatization, the collapse of
private pensions, low rates of savings -- what should we
do?
This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
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