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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.

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Recent articles from the Blog

The matter of human numbers: less is more

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Colin Tudge

Colin Tudge argues that we need to bring far wider dimensions – ecological, evolutionary, and indeed cosmic – into discussions on human population. Not to do so is “a dereliction of duty” As I argued in my blog on human population on November 10:   “… because the issues are so emotive, the subject has become … Read more

Slow Cooking

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Suzanne Wynn

Slow Cooking is the method called for in the deep mid-winter. There are more benefits, and applications than you might imagine.

Beans by many other names: Part one

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Colin Tudge

The derek cooper award This month, out of the blue and marvellously, Ruth and I became the proud recipients of one of the BBC Food Programme’s Food and Farming Awards; to wit, “the Derek Cooper Award for Outstanding Achievement”. It is a great honour and a great fillip. Derek was a fine writer and a … Read more

Beans by many other names: Part two: the recipes

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Colin Tudge

I ended each chapter with a few recipes plagiarised from various sources but modified in the light of what was then the orthodox nutritional theory. The emphasis was on low-fat, under the influence of the American physiologist / nutritionist Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Keys’s general idea – that we should follow a basically Mediterranean diet – … Read more

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.

Colin Tudge among some of John Letts’s Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire

Recent comments

  1. Thank you Susie. What fascinates me in your reply is the fact that your church is selling walnuts ready shelled.…

  2. Wonderfully interesting, useful and inspiring article on line about growing walnuts. We have just planted 21 small trees, grown on…

  3. Dear Colin, I have greatly enjoyed reading your latest outstanding essay on overpopulation, highly insightful and informative, hitting all those…

  4. Thanks, Colin, for this well argued article. Any accusations of misanthropy by those supporting continued growth or even stabilising at…