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Local Politics for Local People
‘The political economies of the future will be essentially local’– David Fleming Thanks to all the folk who voted for me in the Essex County Council elections and to the small group of local people in Maldon District Green Party who all volunteered their time and energy to making sure the electorate had clear Green…
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Vulnerable to Flooding
Lots of the local ecologically concerned folk are sharing this news story based on the Climate Central flood map update using the CoastalDEM® v1.1 digital elevation model. I’m not immune to doing so myself. Combined with the recent devastating floods in the north of England these projections seem to offer a warning from the future…
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Super Blood Wolf Moon
I had a dream last night: I was tasked with capturing a wild black beast that was inside a suburban home. I stood outside the porch of the house with a small dog – as it had been determined that the dog’s presence would calm the beast. I opened the porch door and
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High (Tide) and Dry
It’s now ten days since I wrote to my District Councillors (Peter Elliott and Ron Pratt) asking why Maldon District Council has no current Environment and Climate Change Strategy despite the Climate Emergency and I’m still waiting for a reply. I recognise that they may be busy, that it’s not a salaried role and their…
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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…
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Community Wealth Building
This morning I’ve been thinking about the ‘Preston Model’ and how this model of ‘new municipalism’ might inform bioregional praxis – with special attention to how it might work out here on the Dengie. In my workshop on bioregionalism at the UK Permaculture Convergence in September I briefly mentioned the Preston Model as a possible…
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Climate Emergency
On 8th December I posted on social media about trying to find a point of agency in the face of the wicked problem of climate change – partly re-energised by the Extinction Rebellion actions: ‘I’ve never been a member of a political party, I’ve always been against it on the basis that joining a political…
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Bioregioning: Ed Tyler
Permaculturalist Ed Tyler has been exploring bioregional action and thought up on his own peninsula in Kintyre. With the name of his blog he has coined a new word for the re-inhabitation lexicon: bioregioning. He goes on to define the word on the blog About page. Bioregioning: from verb “to bioregion”; act of bringing your…
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Engage with, Protect, Regenerate and Re-enchant the places where we are
My friend Graham Burnett recently posted on Facebook that:
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Get out of Debt!
Back in the middle of the first decade of the C21st, Essex County Council briefly ran a website http://www.agreeneressex.net/ with a purpose to ‘take sustainability on’ in Essex. That link is dead, and many of the plans it presented are also lifeless now, but some of the site remains preserved here at the Internet Archive for…
Dengie Bioregion 