How would you describe 2020? Alarming, chaotic, enraging or all of the above? Here are some books to help you make sense of it all. Editors of YES magazine chose these books.    All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis  ”A splendid offering of wisdom, warmth, and inspiration to reshape our vision of climate futures, All We Can Save is a skillfully curated collection of essays, poems, and illustrations that is decidedly feminine in its character and feminist in its approach. In her essay, “Sacred Resistance,” contributor Tara Houska writes, “Much of the space we call ‘the climate ...

  Our world is filled with misinformation. Here are non-partisan sites for you to check out what you read.   AP Fact Check… The Associated Press website, an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting, founded in 1846.   Fact Check …a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center   Fact Tank: News in the Numbers…Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.   Medi...

  How are you dealing with all of the stuff going on in your world right now? Have you tried writing a limerick? Here are some samples to get you going.   A painter who came from Great Britain Hailed a lady who sat with her knittin’. He remarked with a sigh, “that park bench—well, I Just painted it, right where you’re sittin.”     There was an old monk from Siberia Whose existence grew drearier and drearier. Till he broke from his cell And with a super-loud yell Eloped with the Mother Superior.     A goddess capricious is Fame. You may strive to make ...

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  (This article is based on a report from the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)   Wisconsin joins 30 other U.S. states in measuring civic health and building the program to make improvements. Civic health refers to the interactions of people with neighbors, friends and relatives. It also refers to the interactions of people with their government and other community organizations.   Many people have withdrawn from community life, even before the pandemic. During this crisis, social connections are needed more than ever. States are creating programs to measure and to improve ...

  (John Lewis left us his great legacy. He also gave us words to live by as we continue the march.)   “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year. It is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”   “We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house—and through books, through information we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.”   “Freedom is not a state. It ...

  Enbridge (the Canadian company) runs a pipeline through northern Wisconsin and through the Bad River Reservation.   The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe filed a lawsuit and won. Now Enbridge is planning to remove a 12-mile segment of its Line 5 from the Bad River Reservation and bypass the reservation with 42 miles of new pipe.   Enbridge says the line transports an average 540,000 barrels a day between Superior and southwestern Ontario that is eventually used to supply propane to dealers in Wisconsin and Michigan.   Enbridge has asked the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to give it eminent ...