hope Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/hope/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:13:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 hope Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/hope/ 32 32 184391167 Community, agency and hopeShana Sullivan, MSc https://writersrebel.com/community-agency-and-hope/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:00:46 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6176 We are very glad to be able to share some extracts from the wonderful Scientists on Survival anthology. You can buy it here.   I cannot accurately recall a time when I wasn’t aware of the threat of climate change. Throughout this constant awareness, my response emotionally and materially has followed a winding path starting [...]

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The Meaning of Hope Julia Thorley https://writersrebel.com/the-meaning-of-hope/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:00:45 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5553   I’m struggling with the concept of hope at the moment. Is it an ideological con? My dictionary defines the verb ‘to hope’ as: to cherish a desire that something good will happen with some expectation of success or fulfilment. I might as well just cross my fingers. We hear a lot about the value [...]

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HOPE IS A VERBDillon Creedon https://writersrebel.com/hope-is-a-verb/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:00:47 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5548   I was surprised at my emotions upon arrival at my first XR march. As the sun warmed my skin, I looked at the faces around me: I saw smiles, I heard chanting, and I sensed solidarity. So why do I feel sad? I wondered. I couldn’t escape emotions of guilt, shame and loneliness, feelings [...]

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FOLLOW YOUR HEARTBREAK: Q&A with Jeremy LentLiz Jensen https://writersrebel.com/qa-with-jeremy-lent/ Thu, 05 May 2022 07:00:51 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4585 Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. Here he talks to Writers Rebel’s Liz Jensen about his latest book, The Web of [...]

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Lost landscapes and the grief of nature’s tessellationsJasmin Kirkbride https://writersrebel.com/lost-landscapes-and-the-grief-of-natures-tessellations/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:00:37 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3795   Wherever there is the potential for planting, I will garden. Whether it’s in a pot or on a balcony, or in my own dear garden which I’ve been raking and sowing since March. I write about the garden in a weekly mailing list, Pond Tales, chronicling the antics of the frogs and birds. However, [...]

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Ordinary MagicRym Kechacha https://writersrebel.com/ordinary-magic/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:00:41 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3571   It’s February and my husband and I move into our new house in Norwich, where we moved eighteen months ago from London seeking slower, wider skies. Before the paint’s dry or the boxes unpacked we’re out in the garden. We’ve longed for a patch of green to call our own for years. Neighbours tell [...]

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Welcome to SolarpunkShireen Tawil https://writersrebel.com/welcome-to-solarpunk/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:00:23 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3556   “UNLESS someone like you  cares a whole awful lot,  nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” -The Once-ler   Rarely do words from children’s books sear themselves into my memory like this warning by the faceless Once-ler in Dr. Seuss’s classic The Lorax. The once-destructive (now regretful) protagonist issues this warning to the [...]

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Finding the PositiveKathryn Nelson https://writersrebel.com/finding-the-positive/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:00:05 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3562   I had to stop watching the mainstream news. I turned off my notifications, stopped doom-scrolling. I closed my eyes, put my fingers in my ears. My heart couldn’t take any more, it was breaking with shame and anger, guilt and despair at what my fellow humans are doing to each other, to our planet. [...]

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Read: On RiskA L Kennedy https://writersrebel.com/on-risk/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:34:45 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1312   Dundee, where I grew up, is currently among the world’s coolest small cities. It has a V&A and hotels surrounding the V&A, not just to mask the city centre from visitors. In my day, Dundee was post-industrial, reliant on a few failing employers, full of health and social risks, particularly for the poor. But [...]

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