Love your website. I share a similar …
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love your website. I share a similar political vein, philosophy, and geography of the city. It’s important to me that there are people out there who are just as passionate about finding the beauty and utopia in the world we live in, now. The more people share and advocate, the more beauty we can bring to the world. Thanks.
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August 27th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I like to visit your site a couple times a week for new thoughts. I was wondering if you have any other niches you write about?
August 27th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
sure, quite a few… they’re listed at the top in the masthead, and you can also peruse the categories at left…
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August 29th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Chris, thank you for the kind words about my new book, Radical Gardening. And yes I loved the fact that you sourced an image of allotments in Lancaster, Lancashire–my home town! George
September 6th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
This seems to me like TED talk:
“Sustaining anything close to the comfort and convenience of our current world is not going to be possible unless we apply the whole systems, regenerative thinking that is so well applied to urban homesteading in this volume, to larger industrial systems too.”
We can “apply” all the “thinking” we want, but the large industrial systems are far too large and embedded in fossil fuel supply systems for pie-in-the-sky or rutabuaga-in-the-sidewalk kind of green messianic charlatanism. Talking green, living brownish – that’s about where we, the collective human race, stand at even the earthy-crunch edge.
Once again I’m here to wreck the mellow vibe, but that’s what comments sections are for.
September 6th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
yeah, that IS what comments are for, I guess!… thanks!… but you know, the hopeless cul-de-sac that lies behind your comment, wrapping itself in know-it-all realism, is just despair in other clothes… I’m sorry your main point is despair. I don’t share it. I actually DO think we can get out of this mess, but certainly not without trying!… and for sure lots of mistakes and wrong paths will be taken in that effort (presuming we ever start to actually make it!)…
anyway… hope you’re enjoying your time on the planet, in spite of the despair…. we only get one time ’round, apparently…
September 7th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Fine rejoinder – you’ve certainly got a right to your more optimistic views, but in trying to understand the “whole systems” of social reality, I just don’t get that imperative – but that is for me to live out, with some amount of joy and fun in seeing a mess of dead-ends and a lot of green wishfulness that cannot go much of anywhere – but we are here to enjoy the entirety, the good life along with the massive crack-ups. Thanks for your fine work, as always.
October 5th, 2011 at 1:45 am
Loved this article and great to see Bristols allotments, as that is where I live. I have also read George Mckays new book and really liked it. I believe that food is essential to retaining the ability to opt out of the dominant economic system, and the more people do this the more that we self organise and move towards our own sustainability the more we regain power over our lifes. We have just posted up some interesting talks on transistions movements in UK which you might find interesting and tie into these issues and concerns.
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February 9th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
love your website. I share a similar political vein, philosophy, and geography of the city. It’s important to me that there are people out there who are just as passionate about finding the beauty and utopia in the world we live in, now. The more people share and advocate, the more beauty we can bring to the world. Thanks.