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Sarah van Gelder is the co-founder of YES! Magazine and author of The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017). Sarah speaks and writes regularly about solutions journalism, grassroots innovations, and social change movements. She is also the editor of Sustainable Happiness: Living Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference, and This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement (both with Berrett Koehler).
In our interview, we discuss:
Her experiences living and working in China in the mid 1980s
How she first got interested in “solutions journalism” and when she decided to start YES! Magazine
Her thoughts on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the future of the democratic party
The top solutions she found on her 12,000 mile journey through America
And finally, we discuss her new school project that has a goal of increasing collaboration across communities and spreading some of the key learnings that she found while writing the book “The Revolution Where You Live.”
Resources:
Book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Sarah van Gelder’s talk on Sustainable Happiness: Living Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference
Book: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Indigenous Environmental Network
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Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.