• Take Back Control

    Take Back Control

    EDF group is Électricité de France S.A., a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. There was a point in time when conservative voices thought this kind of important national infrastructure should be owned by the British state on behalf of the public, with any profits remaining in the United Kingdom.…

  • Everything gardens>Cities

    Everything gardens>Cities

    The term Garden City is immediately evocative and attractive. Who doesn’t like gardens? Who doesn’t think a city like a garden would be appealing? This is the term’s greatest advantage and most disabling handicap: it creates a positive feeling without offering any clear definition about what it means. Thus it can be all things to…

  • VIDEO: Estuary Bioregionalism

    VIDEO: Estuary Bioregionalism

    Estuary Festival have now uploaded the recording of my May 23rd 2021 talk for Focal Point Gallery on ‘Estuary Bioregionalism’. Those who have attended a Permaculture Design Course I’ve worked on in the last few years or been at the Bioregionalism workshop I hosted at the UK Permaculture Convergence in Manchester will find a lot…

  • 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.

  • Shifting Shores

    Shifting Shores

    Today’s Guardian has an article on how the National Trust’s decision not to fix sea defences at Cwm Ivy on the North Gower in south Wales has created a salt marsh rich in flora and fauna. It was an un-managed retreat initially, a hole in the sea defences was created by Atlantic storms in 2013,…

  • Local Politics for Local People

    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…

  • Soviet Dengie

  • A brittle redoubt

    A brittle redoubt

    All to produce an atomic island raised above the surrounding land, destroying views enjoyed for millennia. An ugly plant for overpriced electricity, using the technology of a century that’s passed, profits leaking overseas to foreign investors. A brittle redoubt destined to hold a chamber of poisons no living thing can touch.

  • Managed Retreat #2

    After a few false starts, reconsiderations and revaluations since the first issue, work has commenced on issue 2 of Managed Retreat. The image above is part of the prototyping phase for the cover. The pink shape is the outline of the Dengie peninsula after

  • Back to the Strandline

    This week Essex Live brought back the Climate Central Flood Map story that featured in the last post. This time around the story, and its associated maps, were accompanied by some welcome discussion of the implications and possible mitigation from Drs Natalie Hicks and Tom Cameron of the University of Essex’s School of Life Sciences.…