Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think
This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.
Recent articles from the Blog
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Two party politics is over. Now we need the Renaissance
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by colin tudge Many were cheered by the election results in Britain on May 7 – a breath of fresh air! Hooray! But I found them seriously depressing. It is sad to see the end of Labour, possibly forever. The Tories, too, in their day, had touches of greatness. The rise and rise of the…
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Strength of Flavour
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Let’s take the opportunity provided by Summer to recalibrate our taste buds and season with a lighter hand.
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Why Britain must re-unite with Europe with all possible speed
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by colin tudge Britain has been sadly diminished these past few decades by a series of government follies. They include Eden’s hare-brained attempt in 1956 to reclaim control of Suez; Thatcher’s introduction of neoliberal economics in the 1980s; Blair’s gung-ho plunge into George W Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq in 2003; Osborne’s policy of austerity…
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President Macron of France has told Donald Trump to be serious. But is any politician really serious! Is politics serious?
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By Colin Tudge Though many people in high places are in denial, no sensible – “ordinary” – person needs telling that the world is in deep trouble: deeper than ever before. There is disaster on every front: political, economic, social, ecological, climatic – and although many good things are happening the economic ideas and policies…
The Big Idea
The Big Idea is divided into the following chapters:
The pic — of me (CT) among some of John Letts’ Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire — encapsulates some of the prime themes of The Great Re-Think. For John raises genetically diverse cereals on soils of low fertility year-on-year: no fertilizer, no pesticide, no herbicide, no digging, no fallow, and all wonderfully wildlife-friendly: key principles of agroecology applied to arable. All this is the complete opposite of the modern, industrial trend — monocultures of uniform crops chemicalized to the hilt. To rescue the world at this late hour we need to apply such radical thinking to all aspects of life.
Recent comments
Very wise words, I particularly concur with the idea of life through a Darwinistic lense being based around cooperation and…
Colin, As always, it is comforting and inspiring to read what you propose for our Earth and humanity’s future. I…
Wherever I have posted this recipe it has received great feedback so I am happy to be able to do…
Stumbled on this fascinating history and background to Easter biscuits while hunting for a recipe that was sent with my…
I too often speak about these vital needs—for constantly seeking and nourishing ‘Love and Mystery’, ‘a love for all things’,…