What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it? "You really can’t grasp the new story — as a society — and continue to live the way we live. First you begin to move toward more voluntary simplicity, which is, literally, reducing your dependence on money. You start doing more things yourself. You pay much more attention to your relationships, to the gift economy. You perhaps get a deeper sense of being part of and a contributor to a living universe evolving toward ever … Continue reading
Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers – Here’s How We’re Undoing the Damage
"All around the United States, people are stepping up to help a damaged planet heal." Read the full story by Diane Brooks.... Continue reading
A Brief History of Happiness: How America Lost Track of the Good Life — and Where to Find It Now
"For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy — while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a thriving natural world." Read the full story by Sarah van Gelder, co-founder and editor in chief of YES! Magazine.... Continue reading
Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion
"We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth, one that goes beyond science and religion. "We need a powerful new story that we are a part of nature and not separate from it. We need a story that properly situates humans in the world — neither above it by virtue of our superior intellect, nor dwarfed by the universe into cosmic insignificance. We are equal partners with all that exists, co-creators with trees and galaxies and … Continue reading
Why We Need a New — and Old — Relationship With Our Living Earth
From Yes! Magazine.... "More and more people have come to understand that behaving as if they hold all rights to Earth’s bounty amounts to an eighth deadly sin. "Last summer, when we learned David Korten’s new book [Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth] was scheduled for publication in the same month this issue of YES! would be printed, we started looking more closely at reasons our culture came to be so at odds with nature. We thought it would be useful to … Continue reading
The New Grassroots Heroes: They Fight Pollution and Police Brutality, and They’re Changing How Social Movements Happen
"The global justice movement, the antiwar movement, the climate movement: We are now part of a much larger, more systemic movement that really sees the interrelationships between all these systems and climate destruction." Gopal Dayaneni, Climate Justice Alliance Laura Flanders wrote this article for Truthout, which appears here in Yes! Magazine. She is the executive producer, founder, and host of “GRITtv with Laura Flanders.” Continue reading
The New Economy Comes of Age: 7 Steps Toward Shared Prosperity by Fran Korten
Democratic ownership, localised food production, and a shift to renewables are key principles in this growing movement to re-envision our economy. "A diverse set of communities is coming together in a shared recognition that our economic structures are the root cause of many different crises...... The ideas are not new. Some are ancient. Many have been advocated for years in places deeply affected by poverty, pollution, and racism. What's changed is that so many communities are coming together … Continue reading
