Erin is an associate editor at YES! Magazine. She lives in Seattle and writes about food, health, and suburban sustainability. Follow her on Twitter @erin_sagen.
When Buying Nothing Gives You More of Everything
In addition to the obvious economic savings, the occasional hassle of giving and getting free stuff actually has a more profound advantage: You feel the physical and mental burden of having to gift every item you no longer want in your home, and it’s an embodied lesson in the cost of consumerism that’s quite effective…
November 29, 2017
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
Saddled with traffic congestion and infrastructural erosion, can suburbia be retrofitted into a sustainable model of development and adapt to a post-oil world?
April 27, 2016
Indigenous Seed Savers Fight Climate Change with Biodiversity
As farmer Mamani stated, “It’s time traditional knowledge and science work together.”
July 31, 2014