As spring slowly approaches, we turn our attention to what’s been growing beneath the surface over winter.

Rest and regeneration are not absence or delay. Nature doesn’t move by calendars or commands and gardens don’t bloom on January 1st.  If we are serious about preserving nature and the living world, we have to keep remembering that we are part of its ebbs and flows. Much of what we need for a world beyond extraction already exists — and we’ve been practising it together for years. Action, community, repair.

The first stretch of winter asked a lot of us. We told the truth about where we are. We sat with loss, failure and grief — not as abstractions, but as lived realities. We acknowledged that 1.5°C has been breached, and that the failure to act was structural, not partisan.

Now the door is open — not to comfort or certainty or complacency, but to putting our vision for a better world into motion.

This moment is for regrouping and nourishment — for protecting what sustains us: community, courage, creativity and hope. Attention is turning to the doors that remain firmly in our way, and to what it takes, collectively, to refuse to be ignored.

At the same time, cracks are appearing in the official story. Last month, a long-blocked government assessment was finally released, acknowledging that ecological breakdown is not a side issue but a serious risk to food systems, health, supply chains and social stability. The report had been delayed and redacted, held back from public view, and only emerged because of sustained pressure from concerned members of the public.

This matters, because it shows how much effort is still being spent avoiding the full truth. Extinction Rebellion’s demand to Tell the Truth remains for a reason: without honesty, people are denied the chance to respond meaningfully together, and fear is left to do the work instead.

Fear can feel isolating. Action reconnects. It’s our actions that will continue to make a difference in 2026. 

That’s why we’ve just launched the DO NOT DISTURB door-hanger action. It’s simple, local, and repeatable. A way to mark the places where decisions are made behind closed doors — councils, offices, banks — and to say, calmly and visibly, that silence and delay are no longer acceptable in an emergency. A door becomes a threshold. A private space is gently, collectively interrupted.

This isn’t about doing everything, or doing it perfectly. It’s about doing something, together. Print or order your hangers. Show up with others to doors that have closed on hope. Post on social media — tag with #DoDisturb. Repeat. Make the demand for truth and accountability visible where it’s usually hidden away. Action doesn’t remove fear entirely, but it gives it somewhere to go.

We’ve seen before what becomes possible when pressures on nature ease and people reconnect. During the pandemic, when most travel and industry halted, nature reappeared in places it had been pushed out of. Communities rediscovered mutual aid. Creativity bloomed through boredom and shared grief. None of this fixed the crisis — but it reminded us that regeneration is real, and that systems are not as immovable as they might prefer to appear.

As we move towards spring and summer, Extinction Rebellion is beginning to introduce spaces for deeper reflection and shared learning, including The World We Want talks and trainings. These aren’t a replacement for nonviolent direct action — they sit alongside it — helping us practise the kinds of relationships, decisions and care that a liveable future actually requires. You’ll hear more about this soon.

For now, know this: you are not expected to carry everything. You are not too late. You are not alone. The work ahead belongs to many hands, moving at human pace, grounded in truth and held together by community.

We are still here.
We are still telling the truth.
And we are still acting — together.

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