#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
Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change – Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project
We’re at a pivotal moment in world geopolitics. Increasingly the masks and the gloves are both off – but it’s not a binary choice any more between two sets of suits in slightly different coloured ties: now we have the right showing its true colours – and a chance for the progressive majority in this country to find its feet and lead us towards a genuinely thoughtful, emotionally literate, high-bandwidth politics that ditches the toxic tribalism and instead lays the ground for a future that could actually work.
Breaking open the Story of Bread with Abby Rose of Farmerama
We’re delighted to welcome Abby Rose from the Farmerama podcast to share how story about bread helped listeners to take action, big and small. This is Thrutopia in action and really gets to the heart of the power of story to change the future. Please do listen and enjoy!
Trust like the Web (of Life) trusts – Biomimicry for Social Innovation with Toby Herzlich
How can we bring the insights of Biomimicry to the field of human inter-being? How can we shift our sense of self and other, our communities of place, purpose and passion, our businesses, our governance structures…everything that we are and do onto a different trajectory using the web of life as our template?
Thoughts from the Edge: Manda explores Thrutopian narratives, the building of intent and the paths to a future we’d be proud to leave behind
In this solo episode, Manda walks us through the middle way between the dystopia of now, towards the utopia of a future in which humanity flourishes as an integral part of a thriving plant. What could it and would it be like if each of us woke up every morning feeling safe, feeling confident in our ability to meet the challenges of the day in ways that would leave the world a better place? How would we feel if every moment of life was alive with a sense of meaning and purpose, of connection to all parts of ourselves, each other and the web of life?
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