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.
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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.
The author in the article asks “Why do whole societies of people, millions of them, so often allow one extremely…
Wonderful, really enjoyed that.
Hi Suzanne, I’ve corresponded with Colin over the years so wonder if you can use this on food security: https://climatecoalition.org/future-food-security-must-focus-on-supplies/…
Dear Colin, Los Cedros in Ecuador is located in the cloud forest region about 4 hours’ drive from Quito and…
Dear Iain, Thanks for the link on Food Security, you seem to have every angle covered and its helpful to…