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Whose land are you on?
Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement _TED Talk by Lindsey Schneider, April 2022_
August 11, 2025
Inchoate ideas
I have lots of random yet related ideas. I never really know what to do with them, so I thought I‘d start a list. In no particular order (apart from the date, which is some sort of order): Mon 8 Sep 2025 #Capitalism is inherently undemocratic (h/t Jason Hickel) #democracy My next project is all about Ecology, Education & Agroforestry How useful is #hierarchy? Why hierarchy rather than organisation? Can you enforce flat level organisation? Mon 25 Aug 2025 Book idea. #Degrowth: a manual Sat 23 Aug 2025 If you are poor, there is less margin for error #poverty Thu 21 Aug 2025 Industrial technological colonialism. Is colonialism practised around world across the ages different, only distinguished by advances in technology, and we just happen to have landed on western colonialism #colonialism #technology Fri 8 Aug 2025 Who has the #authority? #Authority as systemised power A visceral morality? Thu 7 Aug 2025 What even is #development? Discussion with health worker from Swansea about money spent on student accommodation and not much else. Targetted development. HTML analogy: all frameworks deliver is simple HTML. Gardening analogy: plants in the ground.
August 8, 2025
The Abuse of Property
My wife is studying the philosophy of property and housing, so a lot of cross-over with my recommoning work. (I don‘t actually know what else to call it, so that will do for now.) This conversation was with Daniel Loick, Brenna Bhandar and Jacob Blumenfeld.
August 7, 2025
Political music
BYE BYE 25! When I was thinking of lyric ideas, it occurred to me to use words taken from a site that had all the words that Trump has essentially banned, meaning any grant or piece of a project or proposal for research that includes any of those words would be immediately disregarded or “cancelled.” I guess Trump does believe in cancel culture, because he is literally trying to cancel culture.
July 29, 2025
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
July 22, 2025