Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.