Towards the Convivial Economy

Reclaiming Commons by Patrick Noble

New title from Smokehouse Press

Patrick Noble’s writing becomes more and more relevant as the governments and peoples of the world fail to take notice of the looming disaster that awaits us all.

Industrial mono-cropping propped up by fossil-fuel-sourced fertilisers cannot be the way forward.. Patrick offers us insight and hope that we might yet find real ways of conserving energy and improving the health of the soil in which we grow our food. This new collection of his essays could not be more timely and should not be missed by anyone who cares about the future of life on earth.

Patrick Noble is an organic farmer living in Wales. He has published seven previous books on green issues.

  • Notes from the Old Blair and Bush, 2008
  • Romantic Economics, 2010
  • The Commons of Soil, 2011
  • The Lost Coefficient of Time, 2011
  • A Potent Nostalgia, 2013
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream, 2015
  • Towards the Convivial Economy, 2017

His website and blog about his organic farm can be seen at http://www.bryncocynorganic.co.uk/

In this book he writes with passion about the ways of establishing a greener more convivial world. Drawing on some of the radical ideas of David Fleming he sets his argument firmly against today's world of multi-nationals and global transport.

Reviews

“Noble’s faith in the persistent possibilities of conviviality and the commons, even among the shadows of these times, is heartening and much needed.”
- Dougald Hine, social thinker, writer, founder of Spacemakers, the School of Everything and the Dark Mountain Project.

“Patrick awakened in me the flame of conviviality. He highlights how we can face the future with dignity and do our damned-best to carve out a future for our offspring with the hand-tools our ancestors have passed down to us. The convivial economy need not be a pipe-dream, it existed once, and can exist again. I owe that belief to Patrick. His writing is a flickering torch of light in our dark times.”
- Alex Heffron, writer and farmer.

“David Fleming commended that we ’do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation’, and his dearest hope for Lean Logic was to encourage such. So I feel sure he would be delighted at Patrick Noble’s thoughtful new collection, inviting a new audience to the critical conversations of our times.”
- Shaun Chamberlin, author of The Transition Timeline; editor of David Fleming's Lean Logic and Surviving the Future.

A beautifully produced softback book of 182 pages.

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