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

  • Developing Discernment

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    Suzanne Wynn

    A weakness of the British Food culture is that we don’t talk much about the taste and quality of food. We need to learn how to be more discerning.

  • A Food Culture Worth Saving

     by 

    Suzanne Wynn

    Suzanne proposes the UK Food Culture as a topic for the Renaissance Movement and invites examples worth saving.

  • A new ecclesia founded on glebe

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    guest author 

    The term ‘quahal’ (translated into English as ‘assembly’, ‘congregation’ or ‘company’) appears about one hundred times in the Old Testament, mostly in rather late strata. According to Gottwald it is ‘an instrument by which Israelites come together to reach collective decisions and to carry out ceremonial activities’. When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek…

  • The Renaissance Movement: Part 1 WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE

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    Colin Tudge

    COLIN TUDGE PROPOSES A NEW, PEOPLE-LED INITIATIVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM TERMINAL DECLINE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we – humanity – worked together, and did conceptually simple things well, we might still…

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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

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