Cooperation

Anna D’Aste makes and teaches ceramic art on 12th Street in the ""Village of the Arts" in Bradenton, FL. She  was part of the original group of artists who moved into the neighborhood 13 years ago to start the Village. When...

Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah, Ashura, Bodhi…these are just some of the seasonal celebrations that bring people together to remember, celebrate and enjoy each other. For people like me, who has a community and people to be happy with, it...

In Part Two of his interview with Peter Pula of Axiom News, Peter explores how the Axiom approach to investigative journalism is to look for stories that have the capacity to give the community life instead of focusing on its...

Bob Stilger has a forty year relationship with Japan and, in the wake of the massive destruction since March 2011, has returned to work around the country as a witness and listener. In this recent post from his blog,...

I wrote this piece for the very first issue of the new YES! and it struck me as worth revisiting. What's your take? Do you see possibilities in a time of chaos? There are times in history when two eras—with...

When we hear the term “sustainable communities” in general it refers to the Triple Bottom Line of Social, Economic and Environmental interests at the “community scale.” For our purposes in discussing sustainable (or resilient) communities, the focus is on...

“I get the jitters asserting that helping can be harmful,” says Maurice Lim Miller, founder and CEO of the Family Independence Initiative, in his Huffington Post blog post When Helping Doesn’t Help. Lim Miller takes John McKnight’s well-known position that...