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.
by
By Colin Tudge Though many people in high places are in denial, no sensible – “ordinary” – person needs telling that the world is in deep trouble: deeper than ever before. There is disaster on every front: political, economic, social, ecological, climatic – and although many good things are happening the economic ideas and policies…
by
A weakness of the British Food culture is that we don’t talk much about the taste and quality of food. We need to learn how to be more discerning.
by
Suzanne proposes the UK Food Culture as a topic for the Renaissance Movement and invites examples worth saving.
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.

Stumbled on this fascinating history and background to Easter biscuits while hunting for a recipe that was sent with my…
Dear Colin … How inspiring! “To a very large extent a propensity for cooperativeness is built into the genes.” As…
Dear Colin Your ambition to “put the world on an even keel” is daunting indeed. Yet, we seem if anything…
Here we go again – ill thought-out ideological interference in Iran backed up with (supposedly) overwhelming military force, leading to…
Wherever I have posted this recipe it has received great feedback so I am happy to be able to do…