Rather than just talk about the issues I want to highlight in the blog, each blog post has an accompanying video that illustrates the ideas being talked about with some practical action.
Each video works a stand-alone production; but to fully understand the depths of what is discussed, you need to read the blog post and follow the references the text provides. Note that videos are made for the main blog posts; the ‘Radical References’ area has an accompanying audio podcast instead of a video.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2021/4, 25th February 2021:
‘An Introduction, with Musical Trees’
In this first part I define what the new blog seeks to cover, and where -- literally -- I'd like to take you. There's a whole world of research around solutions to ecological collapse which involve “having less”; but few will even acknowledge its existence, and why it is the only viable solution.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2021/5, 7th March 2021:
So many times people passing have said to me, “what have you got in that big rucksack”. In this video I outline in detail what it is I carry in ‘my big pack’, and a little about why I take it.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2021/7, 24th March 2021:
‘Wild tea making and the revolt against the machine’
Going outside to brew rosehip tea is a gateway to a lifestyle revolution! Walking, camping, and foraging, are the last ‘natural’ refuges outside technological society – the last ‘commons’ open to all irrespective of wealth; albeit one that’s always under threat.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2021/9, 18th May 2021:
‘Time Without The Machine: No mobile phone, no watch, but I have time’
Many have questioned how I dare wander abroad without the technologies of time measurement and mobile communication. In this post I explain, in reply, my querying of their ‘necessity’.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/5, Imbolic 2022:
‘Ancient Roads and the Wroxton Fingerpost’
There are events and periods of history that are not talked about; they raise difficult, political questions about that history. Viewing how the past has created the world as it is today, with all its perceived faults, can be a journey into that unspoken, ‘taboo history’.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/15, 28th April 2022:
Kelly Kettles and the Practise of Zero Carbon Cooking Outdoors
Metal containers for boiling water are ‘ancient’; but what do you think ancient Greek (their word, ‘kotyle’) or Roman people used to heat their pans? Electricity? Kerosine? Compressed petroleum gas? Heating water is foundational to human society – a technology that defines us. How do we maintain that skill in an increasingly uncertain world?