The world needs us all to solve its current crises and create a brighter future, but the sheer amount of problems can feel too overwhelming to start. Learn to turn your anxiety into action so you can stay hopeful even when the world seems broken.

I'm illustrator, author, and environmentalist Emily Ehlers, and welcome to a quick framework to help you find and nurture your own flame of hope and, in turn, a sense of radical optimism for the future.

We're all in this together, and our future depends on our ability to not only hope for a better world but also make it possible.

For hope to be meaningful, effective, and empowering, your participation is required. Hope isn't something you have; it's something you do.

Now, more than ever, we need individuals and communities to not only wish for change but also use it to light the way into the future. This is active hope. This is hope as a verb.