Quarantined? Looking for something to fill the time? Use this time to armour up for the climate crisis, learn about regenerative agriculture, do some inner work or dive into some top-shelf Nature reading.
Em and I put together this list of recommended reading in our book In Our Nature. Lots of second-hand booksellers who will deliver promptly and some great documentaries on the list!
Let's use this time to think about the bigger crisis coming if we don't change our relationship with the natural world that sustains us. You can also still pick up a copy of In Our Nature right here.
Stay well and take care of each other.
Favourites:
2040, a documentary by Damon Gameau and their website https://whatsyour2040.com/
Fresh the documentary. iTunes store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/fresh/id497110815
Not Just a Game, a documentary by Dave Zirin. Hard to find online but you can see parts of it here on YouTube. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
ABC Story Lab: What you’d spend to prevent climate change — and what you could get with your money
A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit
The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung, Carl Jung
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead, Brene Brown
Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives, James Hollis
Living an Examined Life; Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey, James Hollis
Finding Resilience: Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Brian Walker
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life, David Montgomery
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells
Half-Earth: our planet’s fight for life, Edward O. Wilson
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth, Charles Massy
New and Selected Poems, Volume One, Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, Mary Oliver
Out of the Scientist’s Garden: A Story of Water and Food, Richard Stirzaker
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, Dan Barber
Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, bell hooks
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
An Arid Eden: A Personal Account of Conservation in the Kaokoveld, Garth Owen-Smith
Life is Like a Kudu Horn: A Conservation Memoir, Maragaret Jacobsohn
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture, Gabe Brown. You can see Gabe in this short video on regenerative agriculture