The Best of YES! Magazine
10+ most popular YES! Magazine articles, as voted by our community.
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YES! Magazine on Culture
A Taste of Home: How Ethnic Grocery Stores Create Community
Ethnic grocery stores have served as a cultural pillar of immigrant communities. Can they survive today’s economic challenges?
YES! Magazine on Disability
It’s Time to Make Accessibility Our Collective Responsibility
More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the burden of enforcement often still falls on disabled people and their families.
YES! Magazine on Health
You Know What Else Is Contagious? Good Health
An increasing amount of research shows that good health practices and outcomes can spread throughout a community, even outweighing the influence of immediate family members.
Beyond BMI: A New Book Embodies Fat Liberation
Evette Dionne’s new and highly personal book pushes back against cultural and medical fat shaming.
YES! Magazine on Society
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.
«This form of organization is known as a holarchy, where each element—from cells on up—is a coherent entity in its own right, while also an integral component of something larger.»
Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism
Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?
YES! Magazine on Solarpunk
Why “Solarpunk” Gives Me Hope for a More Sustainable Future
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
YES! Magazine on Sustainability
Going Beyond Charity: How Businesses Can Achieve Permanent Sustainability
A shift away from maximizing profits and to employee ownership can yield a more positive impact.
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What if We Believed Anything Was Possible?
If we don’t address our cognitive dissonance, we’ll get stuck where we are, and diminish our capacity for progress.
The Work of Radical Frugality
Frugality isn’t just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.
Why Is America Obsessed With Racial Trauma?
People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It’s time to change this.
Accent Bias and the Myth of Comprehensibility
Expecting people to speak a language in a specific way is more indicative of a colonial mindset and less of the speaker's ability to utilize and comprehend English.
Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.
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