YES! Magazine
Encyclopedia
YES! Magazine is a non-profit, ad-free magazine
that covers topics of social justice
, environmental sustainability, alternative economics, and peace. The magazine is published by Positive Futures Network, founded by David Korten
and Sarah van Gelder; Korten's wife, Fran Korten, is the publisher. The first issue of the magazine was published in winter 1997. It has ISSN 1089-6651 and LCCN 96656670 sn 96044464.
The magazine is printed on recycled paper and archives all its issues online. It won Utne Magazine's Alternate Press Award for Best Cultural Coverage in 2001, and was nominated for Best Political Coverage in 2004.
It features community-based solutions and "supports people's active engagement in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world". Issues of YES! Magazine explore a specific issue in depth, and provide resources so that readers may become involved in that issue. Previous issues have covered solutions to the energy crisis
, local economies, and water preservation.
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
that covers topics of social justice
Social justice
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...
, environmental sustainability, alternative economics, and peace. The magazine is published by Positive Futures Network, founded by David Korten
David Korten
David C. Korten is an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist and prominent critic of corporate globalization, "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems". His best-known publication is When Corporations...
and Sarah van Gelder; Korten's wife, Fran Korten, is the publisher. The first issue of the magazine was published in winter 1997. It has ISSN 1089-6651 and LCCN 96656670 sn 96044464.
The magazine is printed on recycled paper and archives all its issues online. It won Utne Magazine's Alternate Press Award for Best Cultural Coverage in 2001, and was nominated for Best Political Coverage in 2004.
It features community-based solutions and "supports people's active engagement in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world". Issues of YES! Magazine explore a specific issue in depth, and provide resources so that readers may become involved in that issue. Previous issues have covered solutions to the energy crisis
Energy crisis
An energy crisis is any great bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In popular literature though, it often refers to one of the energy sources used at a certain time and place, particularly those that supply national electricity grids or serve as fuel for vehicles...
, local economies, and water preservation.