Wild Hope

Our planet needs hope, and wild hope is the best kind. A must read!

Wild Hope is the eloquent and compassionate story of a future that rests within us.

In a time when it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or powerless, this book offers something rarer and more sustaining than optimism: it offers evidence. A beautiful, grounding read.

Regeneration often requires us to shake up the system, one idea at a time. Wild Hope is filled with examples of people doing just that.

A powerful new book … I hope you find the book as engaging and wildly hopeful as I have.

Wild Hope is a beautiful, raw, porous, honest, joyful book that is secretly educational. It is a gentle on-ramp to finding the many ways that our contributions make an impact for people and places. A balm of a book.

Beautiful, intelligent.

Claire shows that regeneration is not an abstract theory or distant aspiration, but a living practice already taking root all around us.

Wild Hope is a book that shows us there is a better way.

A very enjoyable read – and a great contribution to the regenerative movement. Claire has a lovely writing style.

Ordinary people can wait for governments to “do something” about the urgent crises of our times or they can instigate change themselves ... Storyteller Claire Scobie set out to find the innovators who were showing how things can be done differently.

Wild Hope shows how the will of the people can make real change in local communities willing to disrupt the status quo. It’s an exploration in how locally driven solutions can also contribute to the global movement to protect the planet. A thought-provoking read.

Claire is a storyteller and she helps us think about stories in a different way. The power of story is a guiding force throughout Wild Hope. She refers to stories using many beautiful metaphors, including story as a technology and story as a rehearsal.

I loved Wild Hope – really loved it. I was in need of some re-inspiration. After seeing the film The Plastic Country, this was perfect timing to read your book and feel that amazing inspiration and hope.

Wild Hope is an insightful, powerful and beautiful read. It is an artfully written mosaic of stories of individuals and communities leading in unexpected ways in these uncertain times. Woven alongside these many stories is Claire’s personal journey towards a more holistic and regenerative understanding of how change can happen. I learnt so much while walking alongside her in these pages.

Wild Hope tells the stories of dozens of communities from around the world. They may not be broad-scale in their impact, but they demonstrate what we all have agency over – the essential ingredients of the human spirit: connection, nourishment, self efficacy and progress. I found great joy and comfort in Claire’s work. Wild Hope is really empowering to read. This book is about life and vitality and aliveness. There’s such a spirit in the pages and through the stories that you tell in this book.

Wild Hope does not look away from the realities of the world we face, nor does it retreat into despair. Instead, it shines a light and is a reminder that perfect plans, governments and technologies have never, on their own, moved our common humanity forward. Throughout history, meaningful change has emerged when small groups of committed people came together around a shared vision, aligned themselves more deeply with nature, strengthened their communities and simply got on with the work.