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.
Alas, I am no farmer but I do very much agree with your view on the world. The nearest I…
Some years ago I wrote an article for World Agriculture magazine on food security although they eventually felt it was…
Thanks, Colin, for this wide-ranging review of ‘biodiversity’ and so much of what you observe chimes with my own perspective.…
Hi Colin, The 22 kingdoms in Eukaryota came as a surprise. My other half (who had a botany degree) reckoned…
My understanding is that La Via Campasina are one of the largest civil organisations in the world, and indeed that…