Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy

by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

Book Overview

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577319729
• ISBN13: 9781577319726
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A balm and a guidebook in difficult times

This book offers actionable resources for people who care about the world and want to help.

Underlining in Active Hope

There was a tremendous amount of underlining in this copy that I was not made aware of at the time of purchase.