YES! Magazine

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. The first issue of the magazine was published in Winter 1997. [ [http://www.yesmagazine.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=58&zenid=44cv71qf50l7ltlib2biioo994 Entry for Issue #1] at Yesmagazine.org]

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 [cite web
url=http://www.utne.com/magazine/press/20020201a.html
title=Winners announced for 2001 UTNE Magazine Alternative Press Awards
accessdate=2006-06-11] .

It features community-based solutions and "supports people's active engagement in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world" [cite web
url=http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=9
publisher=YES! Magazine.com
title=About Positive Futures Network
accessdate=2006-06-11] . 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 [cite web
url=http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=115
publisher=YES! Magazine.com, Fall 2004
title=Can we live without oil?
accessdate=2006-04-19] , local economies [cite web
url=http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=48
publisher=YES! Magazine.com, Fall 2002
title=Living economies
accessdate=2006-04-19] , and water preservation [cite web
url=http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=42
publisher=YES! Magazine.com, Winter 2004
title=Whose water?
accessdate=2006-06-11] .

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External links

* [http://www.yesmagazine.org/ Official site]