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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: the problem that dare not speak its name

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Colin Tudge

No issue is more divisive than that of human population. Anyone who ventures to discuss it in public risks abuse, or worse, from all sides. But, says Colin Tudge, no one should doubt that human numbers matter. We cannot afford simply to duck the issue.  Sir David Attenborough tells us that the human population has … Read more

To Everything There Is A Season – Part 2

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Suzanne Wynn

Continuing suggestions for a Natural History GCSE from a cook’s perspective.

To Everything There Is A Season

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Suzanne Wynn

Suggestions for GCSE Natural History from a cook’s perspective.

Why we need the Renaissance Party even though there seem to be more than enough political parties already

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Colin Tudge

An Apologia by Colin Tudge Many thanks to everyone who commented on my blog of September 11 suggesting that we need a new political party – “The Renaissance Party”, aka the RP. By far the majority were favourable though there were objections of various kinds to which I would like very briefly to respond. Thus:  … 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. Food in England was in my heart from first discovery on the Croydon library shelf. Years later I bought my…

  2. Re: a new political party: I think this is an excellent idea for a number of reasons and it resonates…

  3. I would like to thank Peter Post who responded to Colin’s above essay by insightfully noting, inter alia, “how our…

  5. Hi Colin, Very best of luck here but can I contribute something as a policy? Everybody “wants something done” about…