How to prepare your collaboration: There are 3 ways to participate in the great 2025 collective creation that will showcase the diversity of actions in defense of nature and the common good around the world. When you start, which ever option you choose, please let us know on the link below. This helps us to […]
With the 2025 Call to stitch, we seek the creation of an enormous collective artwork made of secondhand clothing that showcases the strength, diversity, beauty, and magnitude of collaborative action in the world. We are in the midst of an eco-social crisis, climate change, and severe ecosystem degradation. The UN conferences, known as Climate change […]
The United Nations climate conferences are one of the key elements of the UN’s mechanism to mitigate, reverse, and address the issue of climate change. They began in 1996, and in 2025, the thirtieth multilateral meeting will be held in Belém, Brazil, where the Amazon river flows into the Atlantic Ocean. In those 30 years, […]
This guide is for neighborhood, community, and collective groups that are already active in their locality and wish to come together to express a shared idea through a collective textile creation. The first part of this guide discusses materials and measurements (Material Matters). The second part addresses the theme, which each group will define to […]
This guide is for all collectives or groups that stitch together and who want to delve deeper into imagining the world we yearn for and who wish to capture their visions of the future in a textile creation. One might say that human societies have two boundaries. One boundary is drawn by the requirements of […]
This activity to help us imagine the future is taken from the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. There is much more free material available on the website: Active hope Being from the future We recommend doing this activity in groups of 2 or 3 – 15 to 30 minutes. Close your […]
Once you’ve read what we have about imagination you can also explore the fantastic work of Rob Hopkins in many formats:
On stubborn optimism Read and imbue yourself with the ideas of stubborn optimism or active hope as a practice of self care and care of others and the world around us: You can start with our entry about stubborn optimism Then consider going deeper: further reading on stubborn optimism On imagination The power of imagination […]
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Further reading about stubborn optimism
To learn more about the ideas of stubborn optimism and active hope we can recommend these books (please, where possible, always try to buy from an independent bookshop, not on Amazon):
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What if fossil fuel extraction stopped?
Leer este artículo en español This text was originally published on our social media on 24.09.2021. Today is 24th September, Day of the Global Strike for Climate. What if on 31 December next year, in 14 months, all fossil fuel extraction stopped? Would it be worse that the pandemic that forced us all to stay […]