Mark's book 'The Way Home: Tales from a Life without Technology':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZoUuAqRhk&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA

Julius also made a mini-documentary about Mark and his cabin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZoUuAqRhk&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA

More pics/video from the little community where Mark and Shaun live:
https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/109410285273214948

Or for more on the late Dr. David Fleming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleming_(writer)), author of the posthumous books 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy' and the multi award-winning 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', see:
https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books/

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“I would unreservedly go so far as to say that David Fleming was one of the most original, brilliant, urgently-needed, underrated, and ahead-of-his-time thinkers of the last 50 years. History will come to place him alongside Schumacher, Berry, Seymour, Cobbett, and those other brilliant souls who could not just imagine a more resilient world but who could paint a picture of it in such vivid colours. Step into the world of David Fleming; you'll be so glad you did.”
~ Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition Network

“David Fleming was an elder of the UK green movement and a key figure in the early Green Party. Drawing on the heritage of Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, Fleming’s beautifully written and nourishing vision of a post-growth economics grounded in human-scale culture and community—rather than big finance—is both inspiring and ever more topical.”
~ Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader, Green Party of England and Wales; former Member of the European Parliament

"Why do some of the truly great books only emerge and exact their influence upon us after the death of their authors? Perhaps it takes a lifetime to accrue and refine the necessary wisdom. Or perhaps it simply takes the rest of us too long to catch up. Like Thoreau, Fleming's masterpiece brims not only with fresh insight into every nook and cranny of our culture and what it means to be human, but with such wit and humour that its challenging ideas and radical perspectives become a refreshing delight. If we’re to have a future worth surviving, this book demands to be read, re-read, and—ultimately—acted upon."
~ Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

Portrait From Jay Jordan who Lives at the ZAD.
Labelled a "Domestic Extremist" by the UK police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the French press.

Original upload: https://vimeo.com/503812369
From: https://cameltown.be/project/future-of-protest/

Fleming's last interview (November 2010), where he discusses his life's work, available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1m6Z-HEYpA&t=12s

And since 2020, ten years on, Vermont's Sterling College have been offering their online community and courses grounded in Fleming's ever-more-pertinent work - 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time':
https://survivingthefuture.darkoptimism.org/

Additional footage of Fleming:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2016/10/14/by-popular-demand-david-flemings-interviews/

Or for Rob Hopkins and Shaun Chamberlin, ten years on, discussing Fleming's legacy and his influence on the origins of the Transition Towns movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOldfjUkElc

(the above public talk given while Fleming was in Totnes to teach on the Schumacher College residential course "Life After Oil", which both Rob and Shaun attended before writing the first Transition books:
https://www.transitionculture.org/2006/08/31/life-after-oil-course-at-schumacher-college-updated-and-reposted/ )

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“I would unreservedly go so far as to say that David Fleming was one of the most original, brilliant, urgently-needed, underrated, and ahead-of-his-time thinkers of the last 50 years. History will come to place him alongside Schumacher, Berry, Seymour, Cobbett, and those other brilliant souls who could not just imagine a more resilient world but who could paint a picture of it in such vivid colours. Step into the world of David Fleming; you'll be so glad you did.”
~ Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition Network

"A monumental achievement, David Fleming’s Lean Logic is an encyclopedic guide to the crisis of industrial civilization. I challenge anyone to read as much as a page of it without finding at least one insight worth serious reflection. Individuals, families, and communities will find it invaluable as a guide to navigating the troubled waters of the future."
~ John Michael Greer, author of The Long Descent and After Progress

"In my words it's half encyclopaedia, half commonplace book, half a secular bible, half survival guide, half . . . yes, that's a lot of halves, but I hope you get the picture. I have never encountered a book that is so hard to characterise yet so hard, despite its weight, to put down. Lean Logic is neither a policy manifesto nor a dry technical guide. It's an incredibly nourishing cultural and scientific treasure trove."
~ John Thackara, founder and director, Doors of Perception; author of How to Thrive in the Next Economy

"Why do some of the truly great books only emerge and exact their influence upon us after the death of their authors? Perhaps it takes a lifetime to accrue and refine the necessary wisdom. Or perhaps it simply takes the rest of us too long to catch up. Like Thoreau, Fleming's masterpiece brims not only with fresh insight into every nook and cranny of our culture and what it means to be human, but with such wit and humour that its challenging ideas and radical perspectives become a refreshing delight. If we’re to have a future worth surviving, this book demands to be read, re-read, and—ultimately—acted upon."
~ Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

For full details on the book, reviews, the forthcoming film about Fleming's vision and legacy, etc: https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books

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This interview by Richard O'Rourke took place in Fleming's apartment overlooking Hampstead Heath on the 4th August 2009.

He will be fondly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.

The full one hour film is available to view with password "SQ" at: https://vimeo.com/268836119

At 27 minutes in he laughingly mentions "people pointing at me in the street saying 'see that poor old fellow over there? He's been writing this book for the last twenty years, he'll never finish it. He's a nice fellow but just don't mention the book...'" We hope he won't mind us mentioning it now! All details, reviews etc, plus details of the 2020 film on Fleming's legacy at:
http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books

If you've already read one of Fleming's books and would like to explore further, Lean Logic editor Shaun Chamberlin and Sterling College offer the online community/courses 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time':
https://survivingthefuture.darkoptimism.org/

Video footage of Fleming giving a public talk at Schumacher College in 2006:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keLuiUkReQI

Shaun Chamberlin and Rob Hopkins of the Transition Towns movement, in Oct 2016, discussing the foresight, enduring influence and importance of Fleming's work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOldfjUkElc

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Snippets from reviews of Lean Logic:

“Unconventional and captivating reading, written with such charm and levity … Quite astounding … I’m a sucker for beautiful books … One of the most enthralling books I've read in a very long time … One of Britain’s most visionary thinkers … with a combination of wit and wisdom that often makes his writing soar … A tour de force … Exceeded my expectations in just about every way possible … A complete masterpiece. Kept me up in the night for a week … Something I’ll be coming back to for years … It’s hard to hold hope, as things are, but this dictionary is a place I can duck into now and again, to re-find it.”

(reviews in full at: https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books)

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