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Active hope : how to face the mess we're in without going crazy / Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone.
LIBRA HM856 .M33 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macy, Joanna, 1929-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Environmental aspects.
- Social change.
- Social change--Psychological aspects.
- Social change--Religious aspects.
- Environmental psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Novato, Calif. : New World Library, [2012]
- Summary:
- "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."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Three stories of our time
- Trusting the spiral
- Coming from gratitude
- Honoring our pain for the world
- A wider sense of self
- A different kind of power
- A richer experience of community
- A larger view of time
- Catching an inspiring vision
- Daring to believe it is possible
- Building support around you
- Maintaining energy and enthusiasm
- Strengthened by uncertainty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781577319726
- 1577319729
- OCLC:
- 746834394
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