Category: Ultra Dengie

  • Unfollowed

    Unfollowed

    I’m concerned by groupthink and getting trapped in an intellectual bubble where my own opinions are reflected back to me. To counter that I read across the political spectrum, and on social media I follow people who have differing perspectives on the world. On Twitter this has always included people whose views I strongly disagree…

  • Planetary

    The post discusses the evolving relationship between global ecological crises and local actions, emphasizing bioregionalism’s focus on sustainable living within local environments. It critiques contemporary political responses to climate change, highlighting tensions between capitalist interests and emerging leftist alternatives. The text questions the effectiveness of local actions detached from broader, non-capitalist movements focused on global…

  • Weeknotes 02025 Q1 W2

    Weeknotes 02025 Q1 W2

    Going away for the weekend killed getting this out earlier, working up the notes would kill getting it out at all. So, here’s the rough take:

  • Estuary Bioregionalism

    Estuary Bioregionalism

    This Sunday I’ll be speaking about bioregionalism for Focal Point Gallery as part of Estuary Festival 2021. You can find more details and a link to the livestream here.

  • Defining bioregions in these islands III

    Ed Tyler has written an interesting response to the previous posts in this series (I, II) on his bioregioning site. He makes a number of interesting points that are worth reflecting on, but here I’ll limit myself to his reference to the Watsonian Vice County map. I first came across the Watsonian Vice County map…

  • Defining bioregions in these islands II

    ‘The necessity for scores of bioregional Johnny Appleseeds’ – Kirkpatrick Sale, ‘The Birth of Dartia’, Schumacher College journal #3, (Summer 1992) It was good to see my last post on this topic receive attention on social media, it was shared widely and garnered some useful comments – this follows on from that and is best…

  • Defining bioregions in these islands

    In a recent post, I mentioned how ‘I’m still struggling to articulate a suitable spatial scale for bioregional praxis in the Atlantic Archipelago’ and part of this struggle will be identifying particular bioregions within the Archipelago. Today I received a message from Kate Swatridge who had attended Ed Tyler and I’s session on bioregions at the…

  • Bioregional Economy

    Yesterday I attended the Oxford Real Farming Conference, primarily to attend the session on bioregions which featured a panel chaired by Isabel Carlisle of the Bioregional Learning Centre and included Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato,  the writer John Thackara, and my friend Andy Goldring – the Permaculture Association CEO. I’ll try and capture more of…

  • Essex as a Place of Sanctuary

    Yesterday I attended the ‘Essex as a Place of Sanctuary’ event at the Beecroft Gallery in Southend-on-Sea, put on by Focal Point Gallery as part of their ongoing Radical Essex project. The event was described thus:

  • National Permaculture Convergence 2018

    Ed Tyler and I delivered a workshop on Bioregional thinking at the 2018 National Permaculture Convergence, which took place in Hulme, Manchester last weekend. The session was well attended and enthusiastically received which was a relief after all the stressing out and prep I did beforehand. I didn’t manage to cover everything I wanted to…