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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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A new ecclesia founded on glebe

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The Church of England is among England’s largest landowners. An estimated 105,000 acres of this is managed by the Church Commissioners of which around 85,000 acres is farmland. An additional 30,000 acres of “Glebe Land” is owned by the Dioceses – managed by individual Diocesan Boards of Finance, following the rules laid out in Church … Read more

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 … Read more

The Renaissance Movement: Part 2 AN AGENDA FOR RENAISSANCE

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Colin Tudge

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 … Read more

The Changing Food Scene

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Suzanne Wynn

The good and bad news about the way we ate in 2025.

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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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  3. Belated comment – I just saw this and it’s now 18 Feb. 2026. Walnuts do fine on the English/Welsh border,…

  4. Many thanks for this, Andrew. Points taken. However: More and more, it strikes me that the conventional approaches to the…

  5. Dear Colin, You say that “The most serious divide in the present world is…between those who realize the gravity of…