Community Missions

Each month, we feature and support a Hopemakers who’s working on an awesome project to build a better (and more solarpunk) future.

Paid subscribers to The Hopemakers make these projects possible! We film a documentary about the work and directly fund something these projects need to thrive.

That means if you’re part of our community, you’re directly helping building the future we deserve!

If you know someone working on a great project, please encourage them to submit it. And if you’re fixing a problem in your community:

Submit your project!

👀 Mission 002: currently being filmed! Check back for more soon ;)

🥗 Mission 001: Roopa’s Supper Club

Documentary:

Impact Report: (click)

Future projects will focus on people & projects like these:

👊 Laurene Allen, who picked a fight with a polluting plastics facility on behalf of her community, and won.
🍄 Marsya Ancker, who had the first living mushroom casket burial in North America to honor her father’s wishes.
🎣 Cash the Conservation Kid, who started cleaning his local river at just 15 years old, saving enough fishing line litter to wrap around the US twice.
⛺️ Lauren Mason, who’s collecting abandoned tents from music festivals and giving them a second life as functional bags.
🐢 Sidney Woodruff, who helped save the native northwestern pond turtle in Yosemite from an invasive bullfrog that “eats anything that fits into their mouth”.
👯‍♀️ The three “drone didis” (sisters), who are flying high tech drones to make farming more efficient & better for the land.
🐒 Jo Leen Yap, who started a community Facebook group to protect the dusky langur monkey that evolved into building tree canopy bridges using old fire hoses.
🍄‍🟫 Danielle Stevenson who’s figuring out how to use mushrooms to eat pollution.
🍅 Maggie Baird, who started Support + Feed which puts on a free biweekly farmer’s market in NYC to help families in need.
🌞 Syd Kitson, who built America’s first solar-powered town after retiring from the NFL,
🛣️ Fernanda Abra, who collaborated with Indigenous leaders to build rope bridges to reconnect the forest over roads to protect tree dwelling species.
💐 Laura Ruth and Rebecca Shelly, who repurpose used flowers and bouquets to help people going through hard times.
🌳 Nemonte Nenquimo, who is building a pathway to amplify Indigenous wisdom, conserve the Amazon rainforest, and protect the environment.

… and much more to come.