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 Makerfield by-election and the future of life on earth
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Colin Tudge argues that the upcoming by-election in Makerfield has implications that resonate far beyond the confines of a Manchester suburb The by-election to be held in Makerfield, Manchester, on June 18 is a blip in the history of politics – but is much more significant than it may seem. If Andy Burnham wins for…
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Are we witnessing the death of the Great British Pub?
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Its called the hospitality sector, yet hospitality is what is so frequently missing today.
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A tribute to Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food
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Carlo Petrini, who has just died at the age of 76, pioneered the global real food movement – one founded on food culture. Here Suzanne Wynn who helped introduce Slow Food to the UK remembers him and reflects on his legacy
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
May I recommend a marvellous YouTube that a very old friend of mine living in the States serendipitously sent to…
Thank you Fiona, your words also express what we are all feeling beautifully.
Beautifully expressed, Suzanne. Not easy to do, with a life so rich and impactful as Carlo’s. Thousands of us across…
Hi Colin – in spirit I am with you all the way. Any rupture in the free passage of cultural…
So good Colin and thank you; thank you for spelling it out and totally going for the cooperation aspect of…