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Farmers' Markets Move Online

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Green Bean Delivery, Farmers Markets, Foothills Connect, Sustainable Food, Local Food, Ecotrust, Csas, Sustainable Agriculture, YES! Magazine, Timothy Will, Arganica, Rutherfordton, Foodhub, Food News

Smart use of the Web can shift the focus of food retail away from industrial suppliers and toward those in the position to offer on-demand delivery of the freshest food around.

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Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: KXL Pipeline, Elections, This Changes Everything, Wall Street, Student Debt, Occupy Wall Street, Jobs, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Corporate Power, Citizens United, Constitutional Amendment, Inequality, Occupy the Courts, YES! Magazine, Politics News

Here are 7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down.

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10 Ways The Occupy Movement Changes Everything

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Steve Piersanti, Income Inequality, David Korten, Occupy Wall Street, 99%, Financial Crisis, Sarah Van Gelder, Democracy, YES! Magazine, 1%, Impact News

Many question whether this movement can really make a difference. The truth is that it is already changing everything. Here's how. By Sarah van Geld...

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Where the 99% Get Their Power

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Cornel West, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, YES! Magazine, Seattle, Corporate Power, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy-Seattle, Politics News

The demonstrations now spreading virally from Wall Street immediately strike a chord: we all know that neither our economy nor our government is working for the benefit of the 99 percent.

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Not Above the Law: Revoking Massey Energy's Charter

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Corporate Charters, Jeff Clements, Beau Biden, Massey Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Upper Big Branch Coal Mine, Corporate Personhood, Free Speech for People, Corporate Power, Appalachian Voices, Coal, YES! Magazine, Green News

On Friday, two public interest groups asked the attorney general of Delaware to revoke the charter of Massey Energy, a company they call a criminal enterprise.

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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The Wavelength: Original Reporting--What's it Worth? Plus: Tracking the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Fcc, WAVELENGTH, Free Press, Truth-Out, Net Neutrality, IPS News, AT&T, Google, Colorlines, T-Mobile, The WAVELENGTH, Mother Jones, ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION, Truthiness, Save the Internet, YES! Magazine, Media News

By Eric Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Last week, the New York Times debuted a long-awaited paywall, and stats blogger Nate Silver used the launch a...

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Wisconsin Awakens a Sleeping Giant

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Uncut, Public Employees, Collective Bargaining, Family Farm Defenders, Wisconsin, Van Jones, Mahlon Mitchell, Ohio, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Scott Walker, Sarah Van Gelder, YES! Magazine, Unions, Health Care, Michigan, Defend the American Dream, Wisconsin Protests, Brooke Jarvis, Politics News

In state after state, the Americans whose rights and services are being cut are rising up against the decades-long shift of wealth and power to corporations and the very wealthy.

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Weekly Audit: Standoff Continues in Wisconsin

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Weekly Audit: Standoff Continues in WisconsinBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The 14 Democratic state senators who fled Wisconsin to th...

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Weekly Mulch: Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted of Two Felonies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Compost, Dep, Keystone XL, YES! Magazine, Care2, Alternet, Tar Sands, Wild Lands, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Salazar, Earth Island Journal, Hydrofracking, Tim Dechristopher, Doi, Grist, Blm, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was o...

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Dear Glenn Beck: It's Not Conspiracy. It's Courage.

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Uncut, Global Economy, Van Jones, MoveOn.Org, Budget Cuts, Ohio, Sarah Van Gelder, Corporate Power, Citizens United, American Dream, Bank of America, Corporations, Fox News, Glenn Beck, YES! Magazine, Jobs With Justice, Tea Party, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

Glenn Beck has made a startling discovery. People are working together to make change!

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Wisconsin: First Stop in an American Uprising?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Uncut, Green Bay Packers, Koch Brothers, Budget, Vodafone, Scott Walker, Tax Dodgers, UK Uncut, YES! Magazine, Corporate Power, Unions, Tea Party, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

The uprising that swept Tunisia, Egypt, and parts of Europe is showing signs of blossoming across the United States. In Wisconsin, public employees an...

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Why, Finances Aside, Our Children Will Be Better Off Than We Are

Peter Block | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Peter Barnes, Children, Gross National Happiness, Economy, David Korten, Community, Bhutan, Happiness, Wealth, Children Happiness, Peter Block, Kids, Measuring Wealth, John McKnight, Olivia Saunders, Living, Future Well-Being, YES! Magazine, New Economics Institute, Optimism, Pew, City, Future Standard of Living, Parenting, Recession, Abundant Community, Children Well-Being, Child, Health, Pew Research Center, Environment, Pew Research, Healthy Living News

Our children will be better off than we are, but not because they will make more money.

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Weekly Mulch: With D.C. in GOP Hands, Environmentalists Must 'Fight Harder'

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Subsidies, Leadership, Congress, Judy Bonds, Emissions, Jeffrey Leonard, Carbon, Mother Jones, Cap-and-Trade, No Impact Man, Washington, 112th Congress, ORION MAGAZINE, Green Movement, In These Times, MRM, Grist, Energy and Commerce, Colin Beavan, Global Environmental Fund, Janisse Ray, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Washington Monthly, Train Travel, Sustainable Energy, YES! Magazine, Plane Travel, No Impact Week, Subhas Dutta, Robert Hirschfield, India, Fred Upton, Republicans, Senate, Jason Grumet, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger For the environmental community, this coming year offers a chance to regroup, rethink and regrow. Two year...

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Weekly Mulch: How to Avoid Fracking and Oil Spills in 2011

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Years Eve, Steph Larsen, Truth-Out, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Environment, Green, New Years, Sustainability, change.org, One World, YES! Magazine, Resolutions, Grist, Winslow Myers, Local Government, Green News

Editor's Note: We're posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week because of the holidays. It'll return to its regular Friday morning posting next w...

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10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Normal, US Social Forum, Cooperatives, Resilience, Move Your Money, Transition-Towns, Medicare for All, Jobs, Corporate Power, It Gets Better, Citizens United, California Climate Law, Wikileaks, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Cancun, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Military Bases, Detroit, Social Movements, Bolivia, Climate Change, YES! Magazine, Chamber of Commerce, Health Care, Common-Security-Clubs, Impact News

It was a tough year, but events from 2010 contain the seeds of transformation. None of the following stories is enough on its own to change the momentum, but each story points to a piece of the solution.

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Weekly Mulch: Was Cancun Climate Conference a Success?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The United Nations-led Climate Conference at Cancun was not a diplomatic disaster, but for climate activis...

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Weekly Mulch: What's in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and Industrial Estrogen

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grist, Estrogen, The American Prospect, Hydrofracking, MUTANT FISH, COAL SLURRIES, SUE STURGIS, Water Supply, Pittsburgh, Running Out of Water, Contamination, Arsenic, Grittv, Enriched Uranium, New Jersey, Natural Gas, Water Pollution, Nuclear Waste, Massey Energy, Clean Coal, PURGEN, Care2, YES! Magazine, East Tennessee, Linden, Mining, Fracking, Factory Farms, Rhrealitycheck, Oceans, 60 Minutes, Susan Leal, Water, EE2, Bpa, Learning Disabilities, change.org, Coal, LADYPEE, MINGO COUNTY, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger It won't be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. "We've had the sa...

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Weekly Audit: Your Vote, Your Economy--Why Today's Election Matters to Your Pocketbook

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tapped, Women, Abuse, Vote, Midterm, Spending, Social Security, Social Services, Democrat, YES! Magazine, Domestic Violence, Election, Alternet, Economy, Republican, Politics News

Weekly Audit: Your Vote, Your Economy--Why Today's Election Matters to Your Pocketbookby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Election Day is ...

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Vote Anyway: Why Our Families Can't Afford to Stay Home on Election Day

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Social Security, Poverty, 2010 Elections, Retirement, Jobs, Citizens United, Pro-Family, Campaign Finance, Unemployment, College, Great Recession, Elections 2010, Special Interests, YES! Magazine, Family, Voting, Politics News

Sure, lots of us are frustrated by the economy, the war, and lack of progress in Washington, D.C. But there's too much at stake to stay home on electi...

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Weekly Audit: Surprise! Bailed Out Banks Backing Anti-Bailout Candidates

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working in These Times, YES! Magazine, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Alternet, Politics News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Some of the banks that got bailed out during the financial crisis of 2008 are backing Republican can...

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No One Is Illegal: Why YES! Magazine Is Taking the I-Word Pledge

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nafta, The I-Word, Illegal Immigrants, Jobs, Climate Change, Immigration, Immigrants, YES! Magazine, Immigrant Workers, Unions, Politics News

YES! Magazine is joining ColorLines, The Nation, and others in pledging not to use the term "illegals" to refer to people. Actually, this isn't a chan...

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Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Independent, Cooking the Books, CEO Pay, Unemployment, Mother Jones, Birther, Forbes Magazine, Jobs, YES! Magazine, Stimulus Package, Stimulus, Dinesh D'souza, Recession, Alternet, Politics News

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger The economy is terrible. Jobs are nowhere to be found. Wall Street bonuses are through the roof. But main...

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Eight Ways to Confront Extremism on 9/11

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, 9/11, Islamic Extremists, Fox News, Hate Speech, Right Wing, YES! Magazine, 9/11 Families, Religious Tolerance, Color of Change, September 11th, Quran Burning, Religion News

Who benefits when a pastor in a small town in Florida threatens to burn the Quran? Or when a proposal to build a Muslim cultural center in Manhattan e...

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Weekly Audit: Save Affordable Housing, Help Revive America's Middle Class

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Over the past decade, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transformed themselves into some of the worst-run companies ...

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