#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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How can the dream of a jaguar – or any dream – help us to overcome our own fears? This week’s guest, John Perkins has written a book about this. ‘Touching the Jaguar’ is a memoir of an extraordinary life, and it’s an invitation to walk across what he calls the Bridge of Perception to see the world differently – in his words to remember that we are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
Crossing the Uncanny Chasm from where we are to where we need to be – Thoughts from the Edge #6 with Manda Scott
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Climate Popularism – Launch of the new report by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas, interviewed by Jon Alexander
This week sees the launch of the Climate Popularism Report written for the Climate Majority Project by friend of the podcast Professor Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, and Caroline Lucas, former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and for a long time, the sole Green party member of the UK’s Parliament.
A New Earth Dawning: Biological Elegance, the health of humanity and OriginEarth with Zach Bush, MD
What happens when someone who has trained for years in the Cartesian model of science, of medicine in particular – who has been trained to look at bodies the way a mechanic looks at a car, to take them apart and fix one thing and put it back together and get it back on the road… what happens when that person begins to question everything?
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