#Manda Bonus: Must Read, Must Listen, Must View:
Manda’s favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season
It’s that time of year – when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring. If you want things to listen to or watch or read as you head into the long-nights, then these are (some of) the things that have caught my attention this year. Enjoy!
Non-Fiction
Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machada de Oliviera
Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as we Know It by Ginie Servant-Miklos NB – you can download the pdf for FREE!
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Wellbeing by Yuria Celidwen
Right Story, Wrong Story Tyson Yunkaporta
Down the Rabbit Hole by Charlie Bennett
Fiction
Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Murder in the Climate Assembly by Denise Baden – You can get a feel for the book here
Denise’s Kickstarter here
Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison – due March 11th US and a few days later UK
Film & Video
Richard Wain: The Oath of the Hopeful
Roots so Deep
The Shopping Conspiracy Trailer
Future Council – not yet released
Podcasts
Farm Gate 1 ‘What is Bill Gates doing to Africa’s Food?’
Farm Gate 2 ‘Down the Rabbit Hole with Charlie Bennett’
The Great Simplification: Future Council: How Children are responding to our Planetary Crisis
What is a Good Life with Mark McCartney – Rekindling our Wild Nature with Diarmuid Lyng
Wild with Sarah Wilson speaking to Indy Johar
In Conversation
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December Solstice meditation – suitable northern and southern hemispheres
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Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature
How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart’s yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging?
Word Magic 2025 – Accidental Gods’ pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year
Mandas’ pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year…
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