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SUMMARY:The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA four-part series of webinars led by Colin Tudge \n\n\n\nhosted by The Pari Center\,The Scientific and Medical Network\, and the College for Real Farming and Food Cultur \n\n\n\nWith special guests Andrew Fellows\, Denise Walton\, Ian Rappel and Ruby Reed \n\n\n\n2 Sessions each Saturday –  April 17 and 24\, 202110:00 – 12:00 pm BST and 3:00 – 5:00 pm BST11:00 – 1:00 pm CEST and 4:00 – 6:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nThough the world is now in a dreadful state and popes and scientists warn of impending collapse\, humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment with abundant and diverse wildlife. But to achieve this we need to re-think everything we do and take for granted from first principles—those of morality and ecology\, both rooted in the all-but forgotten discipline of metaphysics which embraces both science and religion. The re-think and re-structuring amount to nothing less than a Renaissance—more far-reaching than the Renaissance that ended the European Middle Ages. Furthermore\, this new Renaissance must be brought about by us—people at large: Ordinary Joes and Jos. The dominant oligarchy of governments\, corporates\, financiers\, and their chosen intellectual and expert advisers are not on the case. They remain focused on wealth and power. It’s a tall order—but there is good news. Many millions of individuals and organizations worldwide are already showing the way. What’s needed now is coordination\, underpinned by a coherent philosophy. The Great Re-Think does not presume to provide sure-fire formulae. It does aspire to point the necessary discussions in the right directions. Colin will be discussing the whole thesis with expert guests\, and invites all participants to join in a lively discussion\, ask questions or add comments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday April 17The Goal with Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nSaturday April 17Actionwith Denise Walton \n\n\n\nSaturday April 24Infrastructurewith Ian Rappel \n\n\n\nSaturday April 24Mindsetwith Ruby Reed \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance by biologist and science writer Colin Tudge.  \n\n\n\nWinner of the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award\, 2020 \n\n\n\nColin examines why we must re-think everything we do and take for granted—the biosphere\, agriculture\, food\, technology\, governance\, the economy\, law\, science\, metaphysics\, the arts—and start again from first principles. If we want the Renaissance to happen\, then we\, people-at-large\, ‘Ordinary Joes and Jos\,’ have to take control.  \n\n\n\nBuy the companion book to the series from bookstores or Pari Publishing.To buy Colin’s Book: https://www.paripublishing.com/books/the-great-re-think/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Tudge is a biologist by education (Peterhouse\, Cambridge) and a writer by inclination and by trade. For some decades he worked for World Medicine\, Farmers Weekly\, New Scientist\, and the much-missed Agricultural and Food Research Council\, and then had his own science programme on BBC Radio 3 before becoming a full-time author in 1990. In 2010 he co-founded the Oxford Real Farming Conference which in 2021 becomes ‘ORFC Global’; and he is now helping to set up the College for Real Farming and Food Culture to develop and disseminate the ideas outlined in The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance\, which was named Book of the Year 2020 by the Scientific and Medical Network.
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SUMMARY:The Goal - The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtSyZAOFqg\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Goal \n\n\n\nSession 1 of The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nSaturday April 1710:00am BST  |  11:00am CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nFirst we need to decide what we want to achieve—which Colin suggests should be to create: \n\n\n\n Convivial societies—with personal fulfilment! —within a flourishing biosphere  \n\n\n\nGovernments rarely spell out properly what they are actually trying to achieve. They rely on slogans—as in ‘Make America Great Again’ or ‘Take Back Control.’ \n\n\n\nWe need to achieve the necessary turn-around not merely by Reform\, or by out-and-out Revolution—but by Renaissance—re-birth: creating the world we want to see in situ\, and leaving what we don’t need to wither on the vine. \n\n\n\nBut powers-that-be—an oligarchy of governments\, corporates\, financiers\, and their selected intellectual advisers—are not going to do what’s needed. In large part they are leading us in the opposite direction. So we—people at large—need to make the Renaissance happen for ourselves. \n\n\n\nAlways we need to be guided by the twin principles of morality (what is it right to do?) and of ecology (what is necessary and what is possible?). Both are rooted in the much neglected discipline of metaphysics. Good science is vital but commensurately we need to restore the sense of the sacred. ‘Re-enchantment’ is required. \n\n\n\n** All is ripe for discussion. Most basically: does everyone agree with the stated goal? And is it really possible to take care of humanity and our fellow creatures? (Yes\, is the answer\, but only with truly radical change—brought about by people at large.)  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Fellows is a Jungian Analyst\, Program Director and Training Analyst at ISAP Zurich\, independent researcher and author\, and deep ecologist. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics\, and enjoyed two decades of international engagement with renewable energy\, sustainable development and environmental policy before moving to Switzerland. \n\n\n\nHe is currently extending Jungian Psychology with Gaia theory\, dual-aspect monism and deep ecology to address global environmental problems. \n\n\n\nHis first book\, Gaia\, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene was joint winner of the Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. Andrew lives over three thousand feet above sea level in rural Switzerland without a car.
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SUMMARY:Action - The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6k7JYaLPaU\n\n\n\n\n\nAction \n\n\n\nSession 2 – The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Denise Walton \n\n\n\nSaturday April 173:00pm BST |  4:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nAll technologies are pertinent: both ‘high’—emerging from science; and ‘low\,’ aka artisanal or traditional—based on craft. Above all\, as E.F. Schumacher said\, all technologies must be appropriate—one reason why we need to spell out what we are really trying to achieve! \n\n\n\nBeyond doubt\, though—if we truly aim to crate convivial societies while respecting our fellow creatures—the most important technologies and crafts are those of food: agriculture and cooking.  \n\n\n\nThe kind of agriculture that really could help us to achieve ‘convivial societies in a flourishing biosphere’ is what Colin calls ‘Enlightened Agriculture\,’ aka ‘Real Farming.’ It is guided by the ideas of agroecology and food sovereignty. Both lead us towards mixed (polycultural)\, low-input (organic) farms that perforce are complex and so must be skills-intensive (plenty of farmer and growers) and so in general should be small to medium-sized. This is the precise opposite of the vast\, high-input\, minimum-to-zero labour monocultures that governments and corporates now promote (at our expense!). Clearly\, it requires wholesale economic overhaul. The market economy cannot deliver. \n\n\n\nNow for a great serendipity: there is a perfect one-to-one correspondence between Enlightened Agriculture\, sound nutrition\, and the greatest of the world’s cuisines as found on an axis from Italy to China. So all we really need to solve the world’s food problems (including much of the world’s problems of health and wildlife conservation) is to farm properly and to re-learn how to cook. Ersatz and veganism are not necessary. All will be revealed. \n\n\n\nIn short: the whole economy and social life should be built around (enlightened) farming and good cooking. At the moment both are subservient (like everything else) to the grand cause of maximizing and concentrating material wealth (in the forms of real estate and money). \n\n\n\n** Among many obvious points for discussion are: Why does craft matter in the age of mass manufacture? What should be its role(s)? And: should we all be vegetarian? And—can we really produce high quality food for everyone? What about the cost? Etc.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise Walton\, Farmer\, Food Producer and Ecologist\, lives in the Scottish Borders where she farms with her husband and son. Irish by nationality\,  Denise was born and bought up in Central Africa. She studied horticulture in her native Ireland followed by degrees (to post-graduate level)\, in  Environmental Science and Landscape Ecology at the University of London. She  had her own practice for some 20 years as a Landscape and Ecological Advisor\, during which she also lectured on conservation and wildlife management at Borders College for 9 years. In professional practice she was a member of both the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and the Landscape Institute. She is now fully involved as a partner in the farm business\, in which she is Managing Partner with main responsibility for the diversification and development of  food production from the farm’s livestock  through the on-farm butchery and for the farm’s ecological management. She is a Soil Association Farmer Ambassador for Agroecology; On the Scottish steering group of The Nature Friendly Farming Network and a member of the PFLA Research Advisory Group.
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure - The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT11J1jCvMU\n\n\n\n\n\nInfrastructure \n\n\n\nSession 3 – The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Ian Rappel \n\n\n\nSaturday April 2410:00am BST  |  11:00am CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\nEnlightened agriculture (with corresponding cuisine)—and the grand cause of conviviality\, personal fulfilment\, and a flourishing biosphere—cannot come about without an appropriate\, supportive infrastructure—compounded of the government\, the economy\, and the law. The economy is ‘the matrix of our lives.’ It is in practice the medium through which we translate our aspirations into material reality. So it is vital to have the right aspirations—and to devise an economy that really does help us to meet our needs and fulfil our dreams (insofar as our dreams are compatible with the bedrock principles of morality and ecological reality). \n\n\n\nThe economy that now prevails worldwide—that of neoliberalism—is the precise opposite of what’s needed. It is inveterately materialist (money is its only ‘value’); it idealises competition which leads to inequality and strife; it promotes excess which must lead to mass extinction; and ‘the market\,’ which has no morality\, becomes the moral arbiter. \n\n\n\nInstead we need Green Economic Democracy: the ‘tripartite mixed economy’ (public\, private\, and community ownership\, with all financial endeavours conceived as social enterprises).  Governments are not going to make this happen so we\, people at large\, must do what needs doing despite them. We surely have the power to do so\, if we choose to grasp the nettles. \n\n\n\nWe must make democracy work—difficult but necessary—and those we elect to government must follow the guidelines that Jesus suggested according to St Mark (10: 42-44): ‘whoever would be first among you must be servant to all.’ \n\n\n\nThe scope for discussion is clearly endless. What are the implications of all this for humanity as a whole and for the political parties in particular? How significant are the many uprisings worldwide? (the US\, Hong Kong\, Russia\, Belarus\, Myanmar\, India? What can they achieve?) And so on. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Ian Rappel is a geographer and ecologist by background\, working in conservation for NGOs and in academia since 1993. He is currently helping with the development of the College for Real Farming and Food Culture\, and also works as the Wales Development Manager for the National Association of AONBs. He is a curriculum advisor to the Black Mountains College\, and lives in Talgarth on the northern fringes of the Black Mountains in Wales.
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SUMMARY:Mindset - The Great Re-Think
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_N_1zQrG9M\n\n\n\n\n\nMindset \n\n\n\nSession 4 – The Great Re-Think \n\n\n\nwith Colin Tudge and special guest Ruby Reed \n\n\n\nSaturday April 243:00pm BST  |  4:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, recordings will be available for any sessions you can not attend. \n\n\n\n‘Mindset’ is the sum of all the ideas\, preconceptions\, prejudices\, predilections and aversions in ‘the basement of our minds’ that we take for granted and rarely pull out for inspection—but inspection is at least salutary and indeed is necessary. The Great Re-Think discusses mindset under four headings: science\, morality\, metaphysics\, and the arts. Very briefly: \n\n\n\nScience is wonderful and necessary (of the right kind) but it can only ever be ‘the art of the soluble\,’ as Peter Medawar put the matter. Emphatically\, it is not the royal road to truth\, or the only game in town. Without dumbing down science should be seen and taught primarily as an aesthetic and spiritual pursuit—not as the means to control or indeed to ‘conquer’ nature but as an exercize in appreciation. Its role as a provider of high tech—some of which can help to achieve the goals of conviviality\, fulfilment\, and care of the Earth—is a definite bonus but not the raison d’etre. \n\n\n\nMorality should be an exercise not in utilitarian thinking as now\, but in virtue ethics\, as embraced by all the great religions. The bedrock principles are those of compassion\, humility\, and reverence for nature (underpinned by the concept of oneness and a sense of the sacred). \n\n\n\nMetaphysics asks what many have called ‘the ultimate questions’ which here are taken to be: What is the universe really like (is it just ‘stuf\,’ as materialist-atheists maintain\, or what)? What is the basis of goodness? How do we know what’s true? And\, How come? Science and standard western philosophy provide partial answers but metaphysics offers further insights—including the vital notion of transcendence and the sense of the sacred. Metaphysics is the core of all bona fide religions—and is very similar in all of them. \n\n\n\nThe Arts are the jokers in the pack. Follow the imagination and see where it leads. \n\n\n\nIn all this there are enough points for discussion to last a great many lifetimes—including ‘What\, in practice\, can we do?’  Colin has ideas on this—but what does everyone else think?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuby Reed co-founded transformative education initiative Advaya in 2015\, bringing people together to explore links between ecology\, society and wellbeing. In 2019 she co-founded educational platform EcoResolution\, linking social movements with new audiences\, and in 2021 co-founded ecosystem restoration charity Initiative Earth. Ruby is a Trustee of Resurgence Trust\, Talks Curator for Medicine Festival\, and excited to be part of BeTheEarth Foundation’s flow-funding network. In 2018-2019 she supported Extinction Rebellion\, curating programmes at London protests and Rebel Retreats across the UK. Ruby previously worked with art collectors and has a MA in the Renaissance Body from Edinburgh and a MA in Countercultural Art in Latin America from the Courtauld. She is a Freediver and Yoga Therapist with eight years training in yoga\, pranayama & Ayurveda.
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