Introduction

Well, I’ve been accepted on the MSc in Environment and Development at Cardiff University, I have a potential mixed enterprise agroforestry site in mind, and I‘ve had some good feedback on a grant application. 🎉

The name of the site is Recommoning, because I think there needs to be a fundamental rethinking of how society is organised to tackle the nature and nature climate crisis.

For a very long time, the intellectual consensus has been that we can no longer ask Great Questions. Increasingly, it’s looking like we have no other choice

David Graeber, Debt: the first 5,000 years pp19

I use Obsidian a lot for my day-to-day note taking and writing, so I’m using it to publish thoughts and organisation to this website, using the most excellent Hugo static site generator and the rather nice documentation and blog theme Hextra.

A big thank you to Doug for the stimulating conversations, which prompted this website because I wanted to put my reading list online! And a massive thank you to Antonia Malchik for all the inspiration from On the Commons, helping to rekindle why I’m doing what I’m doing.

If you’re interested, the source code is available here github.com/growdigital/jaker.uk