Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening

At the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what's to come, thoughts on where we're at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months. 
Non fiction  A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/a-people-s-green-n Tomorrow by Paddy Le Fluffy https://blackwells.co.uk/books....hop/product/Building Out By Charlie Herzog Young https://blackwells.co.uk/books....hop/product/Spinning No to a Farm Free Future by Chris Smaje https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/saying-no-to-a-far Lights by James Roberts https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/two-lights-james-r Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in a time of collapse by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Post-Capitalist-Philanthropy-by-Alnoor-Ladha-Lynn-Murphy/9798986531007
 Fiction Black Water Sister by Zen Cho https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/black-water-sister Grief Nurse – Angie Spoto https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/the-grief-nurse-an She is Witch by Kirsty Logan https://uk.bookshop.org/p/book....s/now-she-is-witch-a Man by DA Baden https://www.dabaden.com/habitat-man/The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North https://blackwells.co.uk/books....hop/product/The-Firs Boyle, Meantime https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/meantime-frankie-boyle/6521254?ean=9781399801157

Podcasts 
Bankless Episode w Eliezer Yudkowsky https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/....podcast/bankless/id1 Critical – particularly the episode w Alastair Campbell https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/....podcast/planet-criti Bollier’s Frontiers of Commoning, particularly