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."
In Appalachia people have learned that going green isn't all about what you have to give up, but it can make your life richer. The Central Appalachian Network hatched hundreds of new businesses, and inspired many more to a shift to local, organic sales.
Plug-in hybrids and electric cars can run on wind or solar power, and driving an all-electric vehicle cuts greenhouse gas emissions by up to 65 percent. A cool car review from Plug In America.
Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.
A 2-degree rise in temperature is the most the Earth can tolerate without dangerous climate change, scientists tell us.
The ITT oil fields, located within Ecuador's Yasun铆 National Park, have become the center of an experiment that could bring equity and human rights into the climate equation.
A little temperature rise can unlock vicious feedback loops that speed global warming. If global temperatures continue to rise, some of these feedbacks could spiral beyond our ability to reverse them.
Next to nuclear war, the climate crisis may be the biggest challenge ever to confront the human race.
With increasing numbers of people unable to afford health care, community practitioners are making acupuncture accessible to everyone. Pamela O'Malley Change invites us to "Imagine acupuncture being the medicine everyone
uses and values."
Low-power transmitters are making local radio accessible to many. Is this pirate radio or is it serving the public interest?
Do you need a permit to ride bicycles in New York? Critical Mass bicyclists say the First Amendment is their permit.
The ecological toilet is one of today's most hope-filled expressions of people's power. How composting toilets help us take back our power and autonomy.
Poka Laenui outlines the 7 steps the U.S. should take to achieve an honorable exit from Iraq.
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