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.
Recent articles from the Blog
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A tribute to Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food
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Carlo Petrini, who has just died at the age of 76, pioneered the global real food movement – one founded on food culture. Here Suzanne Wynn who helped introduce Slow Food to the UK remembers him and reflects on his legacy
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Two party politics is over. Now we need the Renaissance
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by colin tudge Many were cheered by the election results in Britain on May 7 – a breath of fresh air! Hooray! But I found them seriously depressing. It is sad to see the end of Labour, possibly forever. The Tories, too, in their day, had touches of greatness. The rise and rise of the…
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Strength of Flavour
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Let’s take the opportunity provided by Summer to recalibrate our taste buds and season with a lighter hand.
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.
Recent comments
I am probably not alone in cheering on a long-hoped-for death of the Labour Party, whose moral/ethical principles have been…
One can only agree with your blog, Colin – with perhaps a minor footnote that the Green Party hasn’t actually…
To say that Brexit has been a disastrous mistake has the makings of a typical British understatement. Of course the…
I too often speak about these vital needs—for constantly seeking and nourishing ‘Love and Mystery’, ‘a love for all things’,…
Hi Colin – in spirit I am with you all the way. Any rupture in the free passage of cultural…