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| Discussion Guide :: The New Economy - Summer 2009 |
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| Conversation starters and article summaries for the economy issue. |
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| Food for Everyone :: Discussion Guide - Spring 2009 |
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| The Food for Everyone: How to Grow a Local Food Revolution issue of YES! Magazine looks at the people who are working to restore flavor, nutrition, and joy to our food, and to make it available to everyone. Use this discussion guide to talk about the issues with your group. |
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| Sustainable Happiness Discussion Guide - Winter 2009 |
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| How happy are we really? Have the things we thought would make us happy done so? This issue of YES! explores different ways to find happiness: meditate, de-stress the holidays, restore the earth, embrace the bad with the good, simplify, and downsize. What makes you happy? |
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| Purple America Discussion Guide - Fall 2008 |
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| Where are the areas of agreement that bridge the supposed political divide between "red" and "blue: voters? Where are stories of people reaching out to make common cause on the many issues where majorities of Americans agree, regardless of political stripe? |
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| A Just Foreign Policy Discussion Guide - Summer 2008 |
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| We can continue to assert our military and economic dominance, or we can work with other countries to tackle issues like global warming and ultimately create a more secure world. |
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| Climate Solutions :: Discussion Guide - Spring 2008 |
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| Conversation starters and article summaries for our Climate Solutions issue. Explore solutions to climate change and find practical, feasible ways to make big differences through your own actions. |
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| DIY Liberation: Discussion Guide - Winter 2008 |
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| This issue of YES! introduces us to people who are done waiting for a leader to come along; who are recognizing their own power to liberate the spaces where they live, work, learn, and create. |
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| Stand Up to Corporate Power::Discussion Guide - Fall 2007 |
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| Discuss topics such as: Are corporations serving the common good? If so, how? If not, how can we encourage corporations to adopt more responsible business practices? What are some of the pros and cons of a worker-run business? What might an alternative prosperity standard look like? What factors would measure nations’ economies of well-being? |
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| Latin America Rising::Discussion Guide - Summer 2007 |
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| Conversation starters and article summaries for Democracy: Latin America Leaps Ahead. |
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| Is the U.S. Ready for Human Rights? :: Discussion Guide - Spring 2007 |
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| Think about the rights we have as human beings. How did they come to be agreed upon? How does the U.S. measure up in meeting those rights? |
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| Go Local Discussion Guide - Winter 2007 |
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| Think about the systems of capitalism and communism, and the values they reflect. What would your ideal alternative economy look like? On what fundamental values would your model be based? Should consideration for human rights be incorporated into the “rules” of the economy? More questions like these . . . |
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| Discussion Guide - Health Care for All - Fall 2006 |
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| Discussion questions like "If you had to pick just one, which word would you choose to describe our health care system?" or
"What experiences with the health care system have you had, or have friends or colleagues had, that influence your views?"
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| Discussion Guide: 5,000 Years of Empire – Ready for a Change? - Summer 2006 |
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| Questions such as: What makes you anxious about the future? What is different now from your expectations growing up? Have you ever experienced a time when a new story helped defuse a conflict? What was it about the story that reduced conflict? |
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| Discussion Guide for 10 Hopeful Trends - Spring 2006 |
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| Questions such as: As you look back on the last 10 years and forward to the next, what do you fear? What do you hope for? What has the last decade meant in your life? What do you expect from the next decade? |
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| Discussion Guide for Spiritual Uprising - Winter 2006 |
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| Explore questions: Has religion lost its edge? Are churches now centers at best of apathy, at worst of right-wing reaction? Is organized religion now so sectarian that work across denominations is impossible? and more. |
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| Discussion Guide for Respecting Elders, Becoming Elders - Fall 2005 |
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| Questions like: • What would you need to do to enter elderhood? What could your community do to support you in making that transition?
• Do you have an older person you admire and would like to be like? What makes this person a model for you? |
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| Discussion Guide for What Makes a Great Place? - Summer 2005 |
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| What are your favorite places in your area? Where do you spend the greatest amount of your leisure time outside your home? Where do you most enjoy spending time? Which of the five qualities do these places have? More questions like these for discussion . . . |
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| Media That Set Us Free Discussion Guide - Spring 2005 |
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| Why in the midst of this information glut are we not getting the information we need? What does this mean for our democracy? More questions like these . . . |
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| Discussion Guide for Healing and Resistance - Winter 2005 |
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| November 2 dashed the hopes of millions. After an election that stirred such passions, how do we move forward as a nation? In this issue, we look at the fractures underlying our present social landscape, the new fears and old scars, and how we can heal them. How can we resist these destructive spirals? How can we overturn ancient patterns of harm? What sources of healing are within and around us? |
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| Can We Live Without Oil? Discussion Guide - Fall 2004 |
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| Whether it’s 10 years or 50 years, we must start making significant changes to the way we power our lives if children born in 2004 are to have safe, reliable, and sustainable energy sources. |
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| What Is the Good Life? Discussion Guide - Summer 2004 |
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| But what really makes for a satisfying life? When you look at your own life, what has brought you genuine joy? What has brought you deep and lasting contentment? In this issue, we explore the question philosophers have wrestled with at least since Socrates asked, “How should one live?” |
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| Discussion Guide for a Conspiracy of Hope - Spring 2004 |
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| When has awareness of an injustice spurred you into action? What was it that made you want to act? What kind of information or images have made you feel unwilling or unable to act? More questions like these . . . |
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| Discussion Guide for Whose Water? - Winter 2004 |
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| Like oil, water scarcity lies at the heart of many of the world’s worst conflicts, and, as they once looked at oil, the world’s corporations see water as the next great commodity for their profit. But is there a different path, a way to share water, fostering abundance rather than exploiting scarcity? |
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| Government of the People :: Discussion Guide - Fall 2003 |
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| Think about relatives, colleagues, or neighbors who have a very different perspective on issues you care about. What is the foundation for their deeply held views? Are there values you hold in common? Do these suggest issues on which you might find common ground? What language might help find that common ground? |
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| Finding Courage Discussion Guide - Summer 2003 |
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| s nonviolence a universal requirement or merely a sometimes-useful strategy? Nelson Mandela, for example, during the struggle against apartheid, rejected demands that the African National Congress renounce violence as a strategy. Is nonviolence always required or are there times when violence is necessary? Have you seen nonviolent action work? What made it succeed? Have you seen it fail? In what way and why? Faced with an invasion and oppression of your community, what would you do to resist it? |
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| Discussion Guide :: Our Planet, Our Selves- environment and health - Spring 2003 |
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| Questions like: Who in your own life has experienced serious illness? What has it been like for those close to that person? What obligation do we have to keep an environment clean for other people? |
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| Discussion Guide for What Would Democracy Look Like? - Winter 2003 |
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| Questions such as: What ways do you stay hopeful in dark times? What keeps you acting on what you believe when success seems distant or unlikely? What can (or do) you do to help friends and co-workers keep their spirits up? |
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| Discussion Guide for Living Economies - Fall 2002 |
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| Questions like: How have corporations affected life for you or your community? Have you had experiences of elements of a local living economy being created or restored? What worked for you? What didn't? What actions can you take as an individual or a participant in a political movement to restore your own community? |
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| Art and Community Discussion Guide - Summer 2002 |
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| Where does art fit in your life? Is it something you visit in a museum? Something you buy in a music store? Is art a mere luxury? Or can art change lives and communities, making life more livable by the act of creation? |
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| Discussion Guide for What Does It Mean to Be an American Now? - Spring 2002 |
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| What did you grow up loving or hating about America? How did you express that love or hate? How have your feelings about America changed over time? What experiences caused those changes? How have your feelings changed since 9/11? Who are American heroes whom you look to for a sense of what makes America? |
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| Discussion Guide :: Can Love Save the World? - Winter 2002 |
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| On September 11, the question we'd set out to address in this issue-Can Love Save the World?-took on a new life-and-death urgency, amid the bombing of Afghanistan, the curtailing of our freedoms in the name of security, and the fear of biological and nuclear warfare. Can love save this broken world? We need an answer now. |
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| Discussion Guide for Technology: Who Chooses? - Fall 2001 |
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| This issue of YES! invites you to think more deeply about our collective relationship to technology. Is technology good or bad or morally neutral? Is technological progress inevitable, its direction determined by some force beyond our control? Or is it the result of a series of individual choices—and if so, who is making those choices? According to what criteria? |
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| Discussion Guide - Summer 2001 |
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| YES is a leading-edge quarterly journal magazine published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network concerned with building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future |
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| Discussion Guide - Spring 2001 |
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| Discussion Guide for Working for Life, Right Livelihood, YES is a leading-edge quarterly journal magazine published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network concerned with building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future |
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| Discussion Guide - Winter 2001 |
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| YES is a leading-edge quarterly journal magazine published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network concerned with building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future |
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| Is It Time to Close the Prisons Discussion Guide - Fall 2000 |
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| Have you, or has someone close to you, spent time in jail or prison? What was the experience like? How did it change you/them? |
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