An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020. All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of the really good stuff out there - but it's good. Enjoy! We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here are some to choose from - all links to Blackwells. For obvious reasons. Non-Fiction 'From what is to what if' by Rob HopkinsThe Trembling Warrior and others by Gill Coombs'The Best of Times, the Worst of Times' by Paul Behrens'How to Be More Pirate' by Alex Barker'Doughnut Economics' by Kate Raworth (also Doughnut Economics Action Lab) 'Less is More' by Jason Hickel'The Ocean is Alive' by Glenn Edney'The Tao of Revolution' by Chris TaylorFiction: 'This is How You Lose The Time War' by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone'The Border Keeper' by Kerstin Hall 'Slough House' by Mick Herron'Agent Running in the Field' by John le Carré'Attack Surface' by Cory Doctorow'Call Down the Hawk' by Maggie Stiefvater'The Timekeeper' by Tara Sim'In Other Lands' by Sarah Rees Brennan'The Ten Thousand Doors of January' by Alix E Harrow'The Left Handed Booksellers of London' by Garth Nix.'A Deadly Education' by Naomi Novak'Fallible Justice' by Laura Laakso'Poison in Paris' by Robert Wilton'The Last Protector' by Andrew Taylor'The Angel of the Crows' by Katherine AddisonPodcasts: Upstream hosted by Della DuncanThe Hive hosted by Nathalie NahaiThe Sustainable Futures Report by Anthony Day A New and Ancient Story by Charles Eisenstein'Your Undivided Attention' by Tristan Harris'Regenerative Agriculture Podcast' by John KempfFarm Gate hosted by Ffinlo Costain'Equiosity' by Alex Kurland'Horses For Future' by Alex KurlandDrinking from the Toilet by Hannah BranniganLink to Dreaming the Year Awake
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Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone- and it's never coming back.
We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine,
and by doing so, lay the foundations for a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn.
What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity?
What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things...