A collection of mark’s insightful reflections as he learns the complexities of living simply on the West Coast of Ireland.

Mark’s writing is humble, moving and thoughtful, offering personal reflections that stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. Love, love, love, should be required reading for all.

I am obsessed with Sarah Wilson and this is where it all began. Her writing is frank yet friendly as she names the “disconnection” that has catalysed the climate and, ultimately, the meta crisis.

Her pages bring understanding, sympathy and courage as well as the answers and ideas necessary to traverse these wild times.

This book changed my whole life. It’s now the basis on which I compare all modern life and determine what is “normal”.

Ryan busts a wealth of myths we’ve been fed about our hunter gatherer ancestors, making the case that ‘civilisation’ is not all its cracked up to be. It has really helped me understand more about humans and our natural state of being.

Holy shit - this book really cracks it all wide open. Think ‘The Social Dilemma’ documentary but even more in depth, and more desperately harrowing.

Hari explains, with meticulously researched evidence, why our inability to focus is not our fault but the result of deliberate manipulation designed to make us over consume and surrender our data.

Further, the parallels with the climate crisis are undeniable and deeply alarming.

A well-researched, accessible book that dives into the fabrications and fallacies of capitalism. It offers a worthy solution and alternate vision to the current paradigm we seem so desperate to maintain.

Hickel helps answer a question I’ve long been asking: “can capitalism ever be ethical or is it inherently unjust?”

Another book that reached in, whacked me on the head and then ripped my world wide open. A series of short stories that read like poetry from Kimmerer’s life and learnings as an indigenous Potawatomi person. She beautifully weaves indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants, offering an entirely new way of seeing, and living in reciprocity with, the natural world and beyond.

A sweet, easy watching film that explores the science of earthing/grounding. It’s honestly mind blowing to see how the earth can heal our body. A must watch for your health and a deeper understanding of the human-earth connection.

Quite incredibly, I’ve found a documentary that ties together everything I’ve learned in the past few years and am trying to share with you all. If you want to fast track your (un)learning, do not skip this doco. It covers overconsumption, belonging, deep ecology, permaculture, community, capitalism - all of it.

A painfully eye-opening look at the insidious ways that companies convince us to buy their product, and to keep up us handing over hard earned cash over and over again. A must watch to help lift the wool from over your eyes.

An oldie but a goodie. Gives a real insight into the corruption of the meat industry and reveals how large-scale farming absolutely decimates forests, chews up water and spits out greenhouse gases.

If you’re going to eat meat, make it an informed choice.

I watched this for the first time almost 10 years ago and it was one of the things that radicalised me into being an environmentalist. Damning yet hopeful.

One of the first insights I had to an alternative way living. It features real-life people stories of food forests, permaculture, composting toilets, bartering systems and the power of community.