<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: <div>1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" <a href="https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas.pdf">https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas.pdf</a></div><div>2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart</div><div>3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being.  And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta. </div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list!</div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Vandana<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Christine Dann" <christine@horomaka.org><br><b>To: </b>gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?<br><br>
  
    
  
  
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dave Goulson (2019)<i> The Garden
        Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet</i></div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Goulson is Professor of Biological
      Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer
      who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science
      stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too
      English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens
      everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well
      as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going
      on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are
      relevant everywhere.  I wish this book had been around when I
      started gardening in my teens. <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Christine<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman
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      <div dir="ltr">Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical
        example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change<br>
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          PM John Foran <<a href="mailto:foran@soc.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">foran@soc.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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              Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries</div>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at
              8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <<a href="mailto:ashishkothari@riseup.net" target="_blank">ashishkothari@riseup.net</a>>
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                <p>William Morris, News from Nowhere <br>
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                <p>Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland <br>
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                <p>Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) 
                  (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun
                  Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science
                  Fiction) <br>
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                <p>Ashish <br>
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                <pre>LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (<a href="http://thepluriverse.org" target="_blank">thepluriverse.org</a>) 
and <a href="http://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org" target="_blank">www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org</a>  

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                <div>On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:<br>
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                    <div>Dear all,</div>
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                    <div>What fiction / non fiction books or writings
                      would you recommend for young adults to introduce
                      to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based
                      futures ?</div>
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                    <div>Sujit and I have the following ideas but am
                      sure you all have many more and it would be nice
                      to compile a reading list together for children/
                      young adults.</div>
                    <div>Ours are as follows:</div>
                    <div>1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma
                      (Very clever and imaginative writing for
                      young adults fictionalising the
                      famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against
                      mining )</div>
                    <div>2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the
                      Sudbury Valley School</div>
                    <div>3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial
                      Civilisation  by Samuel Alexander</div>
                    <div>4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi
                      to young readers </div>
                    <div>5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so
                      many". </div>
                    <div>6. The following chapters in  Alternative
                      futures: Ch 35,  Looking Back into the <span>Future</span>:
                      India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp
                      627-645), and  Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)</div>
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                    <div>What else and what more would you recommend to
                      us that can be used as a reading list for Young
                      Adults?</div>
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                    <div>Many thanks in advance!</div>
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                    <div>Pallavi</div>
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