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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The absolute importance of enlightened agriculture -and why we need a new renaissance
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Colin Tudge points out a few things that ought to be intuitively obvious but apparently are not (which largely explains why the world is in such a mess) It ought to be intuitively obvious that farming in the broad sense, to include arable and ranching and horticulture and agroforestry and cultivated oyster beds and mussels…
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All Change at Sea
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At sea, nature has already responded to climate change with fish moving to somewhere that better suits their requirements.
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Bread for the jackdaws – or not?
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A very small matter with very big implications By Colin Tudge Every morning for the past 10 years or so I’ve been scattering crusts and spaghetti and other beaksome leftovers for the birds that come to the communal garden around our flat. Jackdaws and, less commonly, Magpies, are the chief clientele, plus the odd Robin…
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Hedge Plums
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“Many people know they have a local apple even if they do not know what it is: they also have local plums.”
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
My old granny always used to throw scraps of bread onto the lawn for the birds. She liked to watch…
Great piece Colin ! Apart from the metaphysics of the argument (which consume a fair amount of my waking life)…
I fervently believe that we (humans) DO have to “manage” our wild places. We have already created these small islands…
“The on-going mass extinction is more than a crime…”. Yes — so true! Such mass murder of the glorious life…
This blog is at the root of our relationship with ‘life’ – human, more than human, non human – however…