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Sarah van Gelder

Sarah van Gelder is a founder of a new nonprofit start-up, PeoplesHub, which will be offering online training to local groups around the country who want to make change where they live. Sarah is also YES! Magazine co-Founder and columnist, a public speaker, and the author of the new book, The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America (Berrett Koehler, 2017). She also edited Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference, and This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement (both with Berrett Koehler).  
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Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

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About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their September 12, 2017 dialog they invited YES! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder to share the stories...
Friends & Neighbors

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

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More than 20 years after co-founding YES!, I am launching a new project. The idea came to me when I was on the road trip that resulted in my new book, The Revolution Where You Live. As I traveled, I met people...
Stories

I Saw the Revolution in So Many of the Small Places We Call Home

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The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. The real change we need to stop the social and ecological unraveling can be found in the neighborhoods and cities,...
Stories

The Revolution Where You Live

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YES! Magazine co-founder and editor at large Sarah van Gelder talks about her 12,000-mile journey to find out what people are doing in their communities about poverty, inequality, the climate crisis, and racism.   Related:   I Saw the Revolution in So...
Stories

The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy

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Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time. After meeting every weekend for three years to plan our hoped-for cohousing community, and after investing much of our savings to acquire a few acres of land,...
Friends & Neighbors

The Economics of Compassion: Can This City Wipe Out Debt by 2019?

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Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the fastest growing cities in the Midwest. It hosts corporate giants like Procter & Gamble and Kroger, and some of its close-in neighborhoods have become chic, with coffee shops and new condominiums. But prosperity is not...
Friends & Neighbors

Out of Chaos

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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...
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