IMAGINATION

FILM / A dinner party game to spark your radical imagination, a Tedx talk by Ozy Aloziem

BOOK / From What Is, To What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want. By Rob Hopkins

Big Picture Thinking

TALKS / Do Lectures: ‘The world’s Doers – disruptors and change makers, experts and pioneers – share their stories to encourage you to go and DO amazing things too.’

NEWSLETTER / Charles Eisenstein: Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology

NEWSLETTER / Emergence Magazine: Exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality

BOOK / Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit

Ethical Food

BOOK / Basic Fermentation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation, by Sandor Katz

PODCAST / The Food Podcast by Lindsay Cameron Wilson

BOOK / Grown & Gathered: Traditional Living Made Modern and The Village, by Matt & Lentil Purbrick

BOOK / One. Pot, Pan Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet, by Anna Jones

Climate Action

DOCO / 2040, directed by Damon Gameau

DOCO / Climate Change: The Facts, Sir David Attenborough

PODCAST / Wisdom and Action Podcast (formally Dumbo Feather) specifically, Matt Purbrick, Damon Gameau, David Holmgren, Bob Brown, Sounds of the Wild

BOOK / A Family Guide to Waste Free Living, by Lauren and Oberon Carter

PODCAST / For the Wild: An Anthology of the Anthropocene

BOOK / The Good Life: How to Grow a Better World, by Hannah Moloney

DOCO / Happen Films, specifically, Life With Less Waste, Creatures of Place, The Plummery and Hands On with Milkwood Permaculture

NEWSLETTER / Minimum Viable Planet, by Sarah Lazarovi

DOCO / The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Economics

BOOK / Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, by Kate Raworth

BOOK / Less is More: How regrowth will save the world, by Jason Hickel

PODCAST / Myth, Morals and Money podcast

NEWSLETTER / Small Giants Academy: A centre for wisdom & action

BOOK / Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, by Rutger Bregman

Foraging

BOOK / Eat Wild Tasmania, by Rees Campbell

BOOK / The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia, by Adam Grubb & Annie Raser-Rowland 

BOOK / Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers, by Alison Pouliot & Tom May

Human History + First Nations

BOOK / Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

BOOK / Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, by Bruce Pascoe

BOOK / Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

BOOK / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.

BOOK / Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803, by Lyndall Ryan.

Human Nature + Psychology + Wellness

BOOK / Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman

BOOK / The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van Der Kolk

BOOK / Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, by Brene Brown

BOOK / Darkness is Golden: A Guide to Personal Transformation and Facing Life’s Messiness, by Mary Hoang

BOOK / Do Pause: You are not a to do list, by Robert Poynton

BOOK / Do Walk: Navigate earth, mind and body. Step by step, by Libby DeLana

BOOK / The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday, by Sharon Blackie

BOOK / Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit

BOOK / Human Kind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman

BOOK / If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman, by Sharon Blackie

BOOK / Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, by Hector Garcia Puigcerver

BOOK / Lost Connection: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, by Johann Hari

PODCAST / On Being Podcast, with Krista Tippett

BOOK / Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari

BOOK / Wilder: A journey back to life, by Meg Berryman

Making + Mending

BOOK / A Tree in the House: – Flowers for your home, special occasions and every day, by Annabelle Hickson

BOOK / Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts, by Nina Montenegro & Sonya Montenegro

Nature

NOVEL / The Overstory, by Richard Powers.

DOCO / Fantastic Fungi: The magic beneath us, directed by Louie Schwartzberg

ORGANISATION + work

FILM / TED Talk: A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity, by Tim Harford

FILM / How I plan my art business on PAPER, by Pottery to the People

Regenerative Systems + Gardening

FILMS/WRITING / Apple Turnover Farm, by elisa rathje

BOOK / Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth, by Charles Massy

PODCAST / Cultivating Place: Conversations on natural history & the human impulse to garden

BOOK / Futuresteading: Live like tomorrow matters, by Jade Miles

PODCAST / Futuresteading Podcast, by Jade Miles & Catie Payne

BOOK / Good Life Growing: How to grow fruit and veg anywhere in Australia, by Hannah Moloney

PODCAST / The Hungry Gardener Podcast, by Fabian Capomolla

BOOK / Milkwood: Real Skills for Down to Earth Living, by Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar

MAGAZINE / PIP Permaculture Magazine, by Robyn Rosenfeldt

PODCAST / PIP Permaculture Podcast, by Robyn Rosenfeldt

BOOK / Retrosuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future, by David & Su Holmgren

Simple + Frugal Living

BOOK / The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A guide to spending less while enjoying everything more, by Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb

PODCAST / Slow Home Podcast, by Brooke and Ben McAlary

BOOK / SLOW: Live Life Simply, by Brooke McAlary

Recommendations from newsletter readers

BOOK / A Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

BOOK / The Happiest Man on Earth, by Eddie Jaku

BOOK / The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane

BOOK / Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, by Shannon Hayes

BOOK / Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, by Charles Eisenstein

BOOK / Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy, by Matthew Evans

BOOK / Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy, by David Fleming

BOOK / This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World, by Sarah Wilson

BOOK / What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, by Jon Young