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Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” — Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (2007) “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) “I started off down the ride from Deer Path to the moat, with the rain rat-a-tat-tatting on…
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Black Mountains and Beyond 2: Hedgelaying, Ancestry, Narratives and thoughts about Back-to-the-Land movements.
At the end of a splendid week on the road with my Canadian friend Andrew Millward visiting the Black Mountains College (see previous post) we connected with my old buddy Nigel Adams in Oxford. Nigel took Andrew and I for a days hedge-laying in Henley. It was supposed to be two days, but at Nigel’s…
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The Black Mountains and Beyond: A Road Trip Brain Dump
Talgarth, South Wales. This is my first blog in a while and is really just a collection of thoughts and ideas that have been surfacing, or have surfaced during this road trip, arranged in no particular order! Its going to be a bit fragmented while I get down lots of ideas to follow up later.…
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Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush
“We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or put ourselves to sleep.” Pema Chodron (1996) When Things Fall Apart This short post is largely a personal reflection on barriers that keep us from thinking about the possibility (inevitably?) of social collapse. Unbelievably this is the first post of mine for nearly 9 months!…
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Limits to Growth: on what Authority?
In a recent blog post Professor Jem Bendell, author of the Deep Adaptation paper wrote a challenge to views expressed by John Foster of Lancaster University/ Green House UK Think Tank ( the latter’s strapline is “It aims to lead the development of green thinking in the UK.” I’m beginning to automatically view with caution…
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James T Jones 