“Rage is Tinder, Hope is Fuel”: Let’s Imagine Hopeful Climate Futures

Are you concerned about climate change and wondering how to channel your feelings into meaningful action? As we navigate environmental challenges, it’s natural to experience a mix of emotions. But what if hopeful futures are already beginning to emerge around us?

Join Nichole as she leads you through step-by-step exercises to imagine a hopeful and just climate future in your own community. In this workshop you will:

• Explore the land and build a fire
• Work through your climate anxiety
• Imagine possible solutions to the issues you care about
• Write a journal entry from a future you
• Collectively build hopeful futures in small groups
• Brainstorm real-life actions you can take to make that future a reality

At the end of the workshop, you’ll go home with a story seed, the beginning of a fictional story about a just climate future rooted in your own experience and ready to inspire your real-world climate action.

Meet Your Teacher Nichole Amber Moss (she/they) is a writer and poet of speculative ecologies. By day they work as the Creative Director at a climate research organization. By night they write stories inspired by queer ecology, ecofeminism, and Appalachian environmental justice.

Nichole lives in Appalachia with her rescue dog, Brodie Baggins