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Inspirational Books:

FICTION:                        Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
J.D.Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
George Orwell, 1984
Neal Stephenson, Zodiac; Cryptonomicon; & many more
Cory Doctorow, Makers
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Enid Blyton, Famous Five; The Faraway Tree
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi

NON-FICTION:              

Paul Mason, Why it's Kicking Off Everywhere
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines

Andrew Harvey, Journey to Ladakh
Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
Lucy Irivine, Runaway; Castaway; Faraway
Nick Danziger, Danziger's Travels
 Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Free
Richard Mabey, Wild Food
Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma
Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
Starhawk, Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
Vandana Shiva, John Vandermeer & Ivette Perfecto,
Breakfast of Biodiversity:
The Political Ecology of Rainforest Destruction

 
   Inspirational Films/Documentaries:

Age of Stupid
Zeitgeist
An Inconvenient Truth
Who Killed the Electric Car?
V for Vendetta
BraveHeart
City of Joy
Withnail & I
Repo Man 
The Way Back
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Wake up, Freak out - then Get a Grip (www.wakeupfreakout.org)
& so many more...

Inspirational Music:

Chumbawumba 'Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records'
The Subhumans 'Us Fish Must Swim Together'
The Grateful Dead
Bob Dylan
Nick Drake
Here & Now
Hawkwind
Tarantism
Ska
Northern Soul

Inspirational People:

Gandhi
Dalai Lama
Vandana Shiva
Michael Eavis (host of Glastonbury Festival)
Lucy Irvine (traveller, survivor, author)
John Muir (conservationist)
Martin Luther King
Aung San Suu Kyi 
Rosa Parks
Rebecca Solnit (author, anthropologist)

So many more...


   Other Inspirational Things:

Festivals!
Grassroots organising & Direct Action
Greenpeace
Yoga
Medicinal Herbs
Transition Communities
Dancing
Walking/Hiking
Hitch-hiking
India
Permaculture
Gathering & chopping wood
Sitting beside & tending a real fire
Treesponsibility
Friendship
Gardening
Cuba
Zapatistas
Watching bugs in the backyard
Tie-dye: for opening up a whole world of alternatives :)
Photography of Ansel Adams
The Suffragettes
Comedy/Political Activism of
Mark Thomas, Rob Newman and Bill Hicks

Inspirational Living

Desire less, consume less, avoid direct debits & credit cards

Be creative, grow vegetables, make compost, reuse and recycle

Sew and mend, chop wood, carry water, explore, play

Barter, share skills, co-operate within your community

Enjoy simple things -

Walks, conversation, campfires, books, exploring, dancing, music

Avoid mass-production and exploitation

Switch off the television, Don't be afraid

Buy things from small companies not large ones

Don't be a slave to wage or career, merge life and work

Harness natural renewable energy resources and use them wisely 

Avoid packaging and processed foods; choose organic, local, non-GM

Value friends and health and nature

Be Happy, Be Free!


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