General reading and resources
Book: Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy
Video: What is active hope? A short inspirational animation about bringing meaning to Life
Free online training: Active Hope
Book: The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future by Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
Lesson specific reading
Section 1: Celebrating people and planet
Lesson 2: People of Earth
- Article: How slavery fueled the industrial revolution
- Teaching resource: Industry and empire
Section 3: Digging deeper
Lesson 2: Our Earth, Our Future: To Mine or Mind
- Update on campaigns: Maxima Acuña Atalaya (Conga No Va) and Fidelma O’Kane (Save Our Sperrins)
Lesson 3: A Circular Economy
- Article: Northern Ireland’s waste problem
- Article: Recycling and it’s future in NI
- Article: Waste to landfill increases in England
- Article: Where does our waste go?
Section 4: Switching track
Lesson 1: Renewable Energy
- Updates: Berta Caceres update and Standing Rock
Lesson 2: Power in Your Hands
- Website: Gender Justice
Section 5: Be the change
Lesson 3: Hope and Action
Book: Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy
Video: What is active hope? A short inspirational animation about bringing meaning to Life
Free online training: Active Hope
Video, active hope exercise: Seven Sentence Starters in Support of Active Hope - how Conversations can Energise Positive Change