Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
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Writer, small-scale farmer, social scientist. Seeking low-energy localism by design so it doesn't arrive by default. Currently writing a book - Finding Lights in a Dark Age.
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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Episode 6 - Chris Smaje - Agroecology Radio Hour
In this months episode we chat with Chris Smaje; he is an aspiring woodsman, stockman, gardener, and peasant in Somerset, southwest England. Chris is also an author who writes urgently about the need ...
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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Sep 2
Aiee, AI! Or, feeling the story | Chris Smaje
With the publication of my new book Finding Lights in a Dark Age fast approaching but not yet arrived, I’m at that awkward stage in an author’s journey with a book where it’s too late to change anythi...
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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Aug 17
From Glastonbury to Gaza: no direction home | Chris Smaje
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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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Aug 8
Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Aug 4
From Frome to Glastonbury | Chris Smaje
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 s...
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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Livestock and climate change further explained | Chris Smaje
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 mention...
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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Go solar, go vegan and still collapse: beyond the global environmental problems framework | Chris Smaje
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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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft|Paperback
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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Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft|Paperback
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 ...
barnesandnoble.com
Chris Smaje
@chrissmaje.bsky.social
· Jun 23
A clown and two romances | Chris Smaje
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 Tehr...
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