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What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE/YES! MAGAZINE What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for […]
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline Activists protest against the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at the United States Capitol on Friday, October 15, 2021. PHOTO BY TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big […]
Building Community by Buying Nothing
Building Community by Buying Nothing “It’s like a radical new economy, except of course it’s an old economy that has been around forever.” Following knee surgery five years ago, Myra Anderson was having difficulty getting around. Living alone in Charlottesville, Virginia, she began asking on Facebook if anyone could assist her in getting a few […]
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discuss panel orientation and spacing for a project on simultaneously growing crops under PV Arrays while producing electricity from the panels in South Dearfield, Massachusetts. The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE project seeking to improve the environmental compatibility […]
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on October 22, 2019, in New York City. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, is taking on ExxonMobil in a landmark case that accuses the oil corporation of misleading investors […]
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities Greening alleys reclaims public space, reconnects urban dwellers to one another, and invites nature deep into cities. Rachel Schutz hated watching the kids play outside, and not because she was a curmudgeon. As director of an after-school program in a Latino neighborhood near Portland, Oregon, she likes the […]
By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves Enslavement and sharecropping cannot erase thousands of years of Black people’s sacred relationship with the land. Dijour Carter refused to get out of the van parked in the gravel driveway at Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. The other teens in his program emerged […]
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables. The food would go to allies in Europe, where there […]
Farming and Food for the Soul
Farming and Food for the Soul When Cuba’s industrialized agriculture crashed in 1989, women were among the new small-scale farmers who fed the nation. Cuba’s former agricultural system—large-scale, mechanized, and “modern”—relied on a steady flow of resources from the Soviet Union. Before 1989, the Soviet Union sent vast amounts of agricultural supplies, including petroleum, pesticides, […]
The Fierce Urgency of “How”
The Fierce Urgency of “How” When we have reconsidered the lives we have built, how will we live? There is only one pathway to avert the crisis humanity is heading toward, and it is to deeply feel the connection with the ecosystem we are a part of. But understand, this is not an ecological argument, […]
In the Water-Scarce Southwest, an Ancient Irrigation System Disrupts Big Agriculture
In the Water-Scarce Southwest, an Ancient Irrigation System Disrupts Big Agriculture In New Mexico and Colorado, the “acequia” is more than just democratic water distribution—it is at the center of Southwest culture. Water in the American Southwest has never been abundant. Its availability fluctuates depending on conditions like drought and mountain snowpack that feeds streams […]
It’s Not Just Nostalgia: “Real Things” and Why They Matter
It’s Not Just Nostalgia: “Real Things” and Why They Matter In his new book, David Sax explains how giving into the lure of things like vinyl records and paperback books might actually make you happier. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and […]
More Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: This Time, They’re Coming for Your Democracy
More Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: This Time, They’re Coming for Your Democracy Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.” John Perkins. Photo by Paul Dunn. Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit […]
Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience
Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells. A tiny community sitting on a 27-square-mile piece of Western Pennsylvania wanted to send a big message to the energy company planning to deposit […]
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we can do it. And the first step is to start with the easy stuff. If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will achieve savings in the ongoing energy […]
