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\"\"<\/a>Ever seen the film The Number 23? In it, the main character is confronted with the number 23 everywhere he looks. It\u2019s been like that with the word HOPE for me this year.<\/p>\n

On New Year\u2019s Day, I posted a blog about hope. Ironically, at a time of year where I struggle to hold on to any kind of hope at all, I have been confronted with hope everywhere I look. In my own home life, even though I have failed to keep some of my New Year\u2019s resolutions to the letter, I have managed to take some more small steps, make some more small changes towards a more ethical lifestyle. I\u2019m sure the same is true for you too.<\/p>\n

When Slumdog Millionaire won best film at the BAFTAs on Sunday night, Christian Colson referred to the people of Mumbai in his acceptance speech as people of resilient hope. I guess that resilient hope is what drives the main character, Jamal, to achieve his goal and win the girl. This kind of resilient hope can be seen in communities where homes and industries are rebuilt after a devastating tsunami, where replanting begins after another failed harvest, where growers continue to produce their best crops as market prices fall yet again\u2026<\/p>\n

It worries me that the media seems to do more to fill us with doom and gloom than to give us hope. That is why I submitted this question to DAVOS, the World Economic Forum<\/a> held recently –
\n\u201cIn this time of financial crisis, global conflict and climate change, what can be done to inspire the hope that sustainable living is possible and even positive?\u201d
\nThe question was put to the CEO of Shell worldwide and therefore answered from an economic perspective – and not really answered at all, in my humble opinion. For me, hope is not predicting when financial security will return and we can all start living affluent extravagant lifestyles again. It is about finding a new sustainable standard of living that takes into account wider issues than just our own comfort and enjoyment. And then going one step further and showing that sustainable living can be beneficial to us all and contain its own pleasures (as we found when we savoured a variety of roasted vegetables that I would not normally have bought but had delivered in my organic fruit and veg box!).<\/p>\n

Hope does seem to spring eternal from the human spirit. Thank God. Long may it last. Within each of us is the desire for better. Maybe the current times will provide the opportunity to turn from better gadgets and better toys to better people and better planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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