Insight Environmentalists discussion

Last month, our group selected to read Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy. What did you think about the work?

Here are a few questions to begin our conversation. Feel free to add your own ideas or questions into the mix--

1. In your life, what are you actively hoping for and working to bring about?

2. Complete this sentence: When I consider the conditions of our world, I think things are getting....

3. Which of these "stories" are most prevalent in your experience: business as usual, the great unraveling, or the great turning? Why?

4. What do you think the poet Rabindranth Tajore meant when he said, "The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world?"

5. Paul Hawken estimates there are as many as 2 million organizations working around the world toward eco sustainability and social justice; what is your favorite organization and why?

6. Does the web of life call forth for you to do something? What?

7. What are you grateful for in your life? Who and what helped you realize this condition?

8. Do you agree gratitude is a "social emotion?" Why or why not?

9. Complete the following sentence: Some things I love about being alive on earth are....

10. Joanna and Chris suggest we can honor our feelings of pain for the world by developing ceremonies or forms of symbolic representation to mark them. Do you have ceremonies to honor your grief for the world?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts--Heather

What am I actively hoping for and working to bring about? I am hoping to mobilize people to engage in non-violent action to achieve Climate Justice. Specifically, I'm working with my spiritual community to identify the front line of climate change in the state of Wisconsin. At this time, I'm introducing the idea of Climate Justice and asking people where they see injustice at work.