Chris Smaje is my guest on Episode 136 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Chris co-runs a small farm in Somerset, southwest England. Previously he was a social scientist, working at the University of Surrey and Goldsmiths College. He has written about agricultural, ecological and social issues for a variety of academic and non-academic publications and is the author of A Small Farm Future (Chelsea Green, 2020). He blogs at www.smallfarmfuture.org.uk. He is currently a director of the Ecological Land Co-op.
https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/
https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?page_id=1637
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/a-small-farm-future/
https://twitter.com/csmaje
https://ecologicalland.coop/
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00:00 - A small farm future: The case for a society of local economies
00:42 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Chris Smaje on Episode 136 with Marc Buckley
01:57 - About A Small Farm Future book
09:07 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
14:14 - Climate Reality Projects around the world
14:35 - The Civet coffee story
20:33 - Industrialised food lack diversity
22:52 - Resilient infrastructures
25:30 - New agrarian societies
26:29 - Solutions in creating local economies
29:17 - Peasant and a snapshot of big history
32:28 - Agrarian society
34:46 - Climate change and agriculture
37:01 - Do you feel like a Global Citizen?
38:32 - Local is our Future, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ep 131:https://youtu.be/8yjMqHvPCgg
43:58 - Neo-Liberalism and Neo Darwinism
50:31 - Adam Smith economy
51:52 - Distribution of economical and political power in the UK
57:52 - Ecological footprint and Earth Overshoot day Ep. 99: https://youtu.be/b2wkQftEoWU
58:58 - Focusing on Utopian questions
1:05:25 - Inequalities in economical power
1:08:32 - Restoration Agriculture - Mark Shepard
1:09:30 - Eric Toensmeier - The Carbon Farming Solution. Ep. 108: https://youtu.be/Awg24rpzA0k
1:10:52 - The burning question, WTF - What is the Future?
1:14:57 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:16:25 - What should young people think about in your field?
1:18:24 - What I wished I knew from the start