Accidental Gods

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 Hopkins
The 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 Taylor

Fiction:

'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 Addison

Podcasts:

Upstream hosted by Della Duncan
The Hive hosted by Nathalie Nahai
The 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 Kempf
Farm Gate hosted by Ffinlo Costain
'Equiosity' by Alex Kurland
'Horses For Future' by Alex Kurland
Drinking from the Toilet by Hannah Brannigan

Link to Dreaming the Year Awake

What is Accidental Gods ?

Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone - it is 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, create a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn.

What happens if we commit to a world based on the values we care about: compassion, courage, integrity?

What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves (so we have to do the inner work of healing individually and collectively), between ourselves and each other (so we have to do the outer work of relearning how to build generative communities) and between ourselves and the Web of Life (so we have to reclaim our birthright as conscious nodes in the web of life)?

We can do this - and every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being. We have all the answers, we just lack the visions to weave them into a future that works. We can make this happen. We will. Join us.

Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come.

If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - future, we need to get to know the people who are already living, working, thinking and believing at the leading edge of inter-becoming transformation.
Accidental Gods exists to bring these voices to the world so that we can work together to lay the foundations of a world we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system.
Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.

Find the membership and the podcast pages here: https://accidentalgods.life
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