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The Renaissance Movement: Part 1 WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE
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 Renaissance Movement PART 2: THE NATURE OF RENAISSANCE
Renaissance is about hearts and minds – a change of worldview, a shift in the Zeitgeist. But how might this translate into the political and practical transformation that the world so urgently needs? America’s and Israel’s war in Iran is of course unspeakably horrible as all wars are and for good measure, because of where…
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The Renaissance Movement: Part 3 AN AGENDA FOR RENAISSANCE
THE THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT AND DO TO PUT THE WORLD BACK ON AN EVEN KEEL To bring about the Renaissance that is so urgently required we need: To rethink everything we do and take for granted from first principles; to rethink everything in the light of everything else; and to re-structure where…
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To Everything There Is A Season – Part 2
Continuing suggestions for a Natural History GCSE from a cook’s perspective.
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Why we need the Renaissance Party even though there seem to be more than enough political parties already
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: …
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Fellow Creatures
PART ONE: THE ABSOLUTE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY In 2011 the wildlife campaigner and author Mary Colwell began to publicise the idea that we – Britain; society; the world – need a GCSE in Natural History. With help from the outgoing Green Party leader Caroline Lucas and Tim Oates of Cambridge Assessment she prepared a…
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Blackshirts under the organic bed
A new 30-page booklet called Organicism and Fascism in the UK claims that the organic movement, including the Soil Association and the Biodynamic Association and also, by association, the Oxford Real Farming Conference, is tainted by its Far Right and racist origins which it fails to face up to. In truth, says Colin Tudge, the…