#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
You may also like these recent podcasts
How to Save the World – tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs
‘If you’re not changing the numbers, you’re not changing the world.’ So says this week’s guest, Katie Patrick. Katie Patrick is a Silicon Valley based environmental engineer, climate action designer, and author of How to Save the World: How to Make Changing the World the Greatest Game We’ve Ever Played, now taught in Harvard University’s graduate program and top recommended reading material by UNEP
Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge – If the current system is not fit for purpose, what’s our core response?
The current system is not broken – it is doing what it was always designed to do – which is to shovel wealth and power from the many to the few at a human scale and from the more-than-human world to the industrial/technical maw of predatory capitalism at an ecological scale.
Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness – with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy
We grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad). But happiness isn’t enough. What we need is wellbeing, and as Dr Mark Fabian quotes in the dedication to his book, Beyond Happy, “Wellbeing is about wholeness, not happiness, and wholeness is so much more demanding than happiness.’
A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson
We are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh) – so what tools will help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach us? How do we learn to listen to our heart’s (and hearts’) desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge into a different culture?
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