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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

A 21st Century Renaissance

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Colin Tudge

Proposal for a new Course to help lay the foundations of a People-led Global Renaissance My grand ambition is to provide an outline of a Life Strategy – actions, ideas, and attitudes – that would, if acted upon, enable human beings and our fellow creatures to live agreeably on this planet for aeons to come. … Read more

Spring Eating

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Suzanne Wynn

Keeping abreast of what food is in season, i.e. at its best, has become more confusing now that you can buy most things all year round. Spring is an exciting time to get back in touch.

Dare to dream

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Colin Tudge

By ANDY DIBBEN Modern technologies seem to be enabling us to do almost anything we want. Our main task now, is to decide what it is we do want to do, and why  We have reached a point in human evolution where we seem able to achieve almost anything we can imagine. Advances in genetic … Read more

Fresh Inspiration

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Suzanne Wynn

When faced with the same old ingredients we need to get inventive. Its time to learn something new.

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. A grand vision indeed! So much to say as a result but I will limit it as much as possible.…

  3. I’m not a farmer but nonetheless feel closely connected to the land and your views expressed here feel like coming…