Chris Smaje
@csmaje
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Writer, small-scale farmer, social scientist. Seeking low-energy localism by design so it doesn't arrive by default. @chrissmaje.bsky.social
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Joined February 2013
Just finished recording the audiobook of my 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' at the excellent Bert Jansch studio in Frome
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RT @chelseagreen: 🔸Releasing this Oct. in the UK and Nov. in North America🔸. @csmaje's new book, FINDING LIGHTS IN A DARK AGE. Now is the t….
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New essay 'From Glastonbury to Gaza: no direction home'
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The year moves through its seasons, and so does the farm over longer cycles. In recent days, I’ve been stepping off the veranda and plucking greengages, figs and apples from the surrounding trees for...
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New essay 'From Frome to Glastonbury', telling tales of my walk to the Glastonbury Festival, of cities, singers and how we seek home.
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I was invited to give a couple of talks at the Speaker’s Forum in the Glastonbury Festival in June, which I’ve just reprised at the Green Gathering this weekend. In this post, I’m going to tell some...
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New essay 'Livestock & climate change further explained', building on my previous essay in response to some queries about it.
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I mentioned in my previous post the recent kerfuffle about animal agriculture and climate change associated with the work of Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop (see this podcast and this paper). I also...
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New essay 'Go solar, go vegan & still collapse: beyond the global environmental problems framework'. discussing new data on fossil fuel emissions, strange data on livestock agriculture emissions and the need for localism.
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The end of June is usually an exciting time for me. Summer holidays approaching? No, it’s when the Energy Institute publishes its annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Who doesn’t love a big fat...
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New essay O! Enkidu! . with news of Gilgamesh, authoritarian states & my friend Eric Farnsworth's new book.
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Happy news if you’re bored of me trailing my new book – I’m shortly going to hand over to a much valued long-term commenter here at Small Farm Future, Eric Farnsworth, so that he can trail his...
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I should have mentioned in this previous post that the Barnes & Noble preorder offer for my book applies in the US only. Today is the last day!.
You can now preorder my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' from Barnes & Noble. Rewards members (it's free to sign up online) get 25% discount, premium members get a further 10% off: Use PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder.@bnbuzz.
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You can now preorder my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' from Barnes & Noble. Rewards members (it's free to sign up online) get 25% discount, premium members get a further 10% off: Use PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder.@bnbuzz.
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How we can meet the challenges of our age by moving away from the political and economic philosophies of both the left and right to a more equitable re-organization of society, economy, land and food...
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I enjoyed speaking with Robert about food & farming futures on this pod, now available.
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Radical Truth · Episode
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Looking forward to talking about #DarkAgeLight & #FoodSecurity @ #GlastonburySpeakersForum #Glastonbury2025. The last chapter of my forthcoming book involves a fictional walk to Glastonbury, so I decided to walk there for real😀 Maybe I'll post as I go!
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New essay 'A clown & two romances' with news of global war, clowns, sheep, mountains & my impending talks at #GlastonburyFestival.
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A commenter under my last post wrote ‘all eyes on Gaza from now on’. I’m not sure exactly what he meant, but recent world events suggest that all eyes also need to be on Washington, DC as well as...
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New post 'Looking forward. ' with a bit more news about my new book, my blog, recently deceased philosophers and other such matters. #DarkAgeLight.
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A little bit more about my forthcoming book Finding Lights in a Dark Age and related things. So, the book has a UK publication date of 14 October and a US publication date of November 11. Preorder...
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RIP Alasdair MacIntyre. A big influence on me among many.
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What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.
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I'm excited to say my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work & Craft' will be published in the UK on 14 Oct & in the US on Nov 11. Preorder links here: #DarkAgeLight
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RT @tradistae: Another great book coming from my favorite Distributist authors across the pond:.
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New essay "Finding Lights in a Dark Age – or, writing ἀποκάλυψις" #DarkAgeLight.
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I’ve all but finished my new book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, which will be out in the autumn. A few words here about its context, and some other bits and bobs of...
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RT @NiallLeahy: I recommend making some time to listen to this farsighted trio grappling with the recent interruption of society and politi….
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