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Contents

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  1. About Edward Goldsmith
  2. Ecologist Articles
  3. Other articles
  4. Lectures, speeches, interviews
  5. The Ecologist
  6. Books
  7. Book reviews
  8. Friends, partners, supporters
  9. Allied causes

Welcome...

This links page has been created on behalf of Edward Goldsmith, the visionary ecologist, author and founding editor of The Ecologist magazine.

Its aim is to speeed up and simplify people's internet searches for information about Edward Goldsmith, and his many writings.

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Definitive website

A new website has been created on which a definitive collection of Edward Goldsmith's many articles are being published: www.edwardgoldsmith.com.

At time of writing it contains over 150 articles, and more are being added all the time. Please visit!

There is also a smaller French language website at www.teddygoldsmith.org with articles, interviews etc from L'Ecologiste and other publications.

1. About Edward Goldsmith

  • Right Livelihood - 1991 Honorary Award "...For his uncompromising critique of industrialism and promotion of environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to it."
  • Developments Not Sustainable, says British Guru - Sanjay Suri interviews EG post-Johannesburg Summit. By agreeing to allow Western agricultural produce into their markets, China and India (with 1.4 billion small farmers) are "committing one of the greatest crimes in history"...
  • www.TeddyGoldsmith.org is Edward Goldsmith's French language website. Smaller than its English sister site, but growing all the time...
  • Fred Pearce reviews 30 years of The Ecologist and the pivotal role of Edward Goldsmith, founding editor. The Ecologist, 22 June 2000.
  • Some Biographical details are listed on cesc.net.
  • Special Report: Globalising Poverty - 22 August 2000, EG and Simon Retallack. "Far from bridging the gap between the rich and the poor, the World Bank, IMF and WTO , are in the process of widening it..."
  • Age of rage - The wild child of the environment movement is now 30 years old. Fred Pearce looks back at trails blazed by the Ecologist magazine...
  • The Destruction of Domestic Economics - Teddy Goldsmith is interviewed by Steven Ferry of Government Technology.
  • OECD Biographical note about EG, 2002.
  • Steven Ferry interviews EG. 2000. "In this interview, Goldsmith, who lives in England, goes beyond the usual descriptions of the global economy to explain how it all began and then moves on to show that it cannot continue for long. This interview is not for the faint of heart..."

2. Ecologist Articles

Articles by Edward Goldsmith in The Ecologist.

  • Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? - Vol. 27, no. 6, 1997. "By now, it should be clear that our environment is becoming ever less capable of sustaining the growing impact of our economic activities. Everywhere our forests are overlogged, our agricultural lands overcropped, our grasslands overgrazed, our wetlands overdrained, our groundwaters overtapped, our seas overfished, and just about the whole terrestrial and marine environment overpolluted with chemical and radioactive poisons..."
  • EdwardGoldsmith.com - contains a large and growing selection of EG's articles, lectures etc. All indexed and searchable.
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3. Other articles

  • Intelligence is Universal in Life - Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum 93 2000#3. "The notion that man’s mental processes are categorically distinct from those of other animals is a gratuitous assumption based on no valid knowledge of any kind. In particular it is gratuitous to insist, as mainstream science does today, that only humans are intelligent — especially since the term has never even been satisfactorily defined..."
  • EdwardGoldsmith.com - contains a large and growing selection of EG's articles, lectures etc. All indexed and searchable.
  • www.TeddyGoldsmith.org is Edward Goldsmith's French language website. Smaller than its English sister site, but growing all the time...
  • Traditional Agriculture in Sri Lanka - Edward Goldsmith interviews Mudyanse Tennekoon. "Farmer Tennekoon is a prophet, a prophet of traditional rural life in Sri Lanka. He is also a farmer and lives in a small village in the Kurenegala district of the island. In recent years he has become quite well known among those people who recognise the destructiveness and counter-productiveness of the modern system of intensive agriculture which the international institutions - FAO and the Word Bank in particular - are imposing on Sri Lanka."

4. Lectures, speeches, interviews

  • Teddy Goldsmith speaks on Radio Pacifica's Democracy Now (needs RealPlayer to listen), April 30, 1999, about the The Ecologist special issue on Monsanto and the company's failed attempt to suppress its publication.
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5. The Ecologist

Edward Goldsmith founded The Ecologist magazine in 1970, and served as an editor of the magazine until 2001. He continues to take an active interest in the magazine and is a frequent contributor to its pages. Separate editions of The Ecologist are now published around the world, in France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, India, Italy and New Zealand.

  • The Ecologist Brasil - the Brazilian edition of The Ecologist.
  • Fonde a l'automne 2000, L'Ecologiste est l'edition francaise de "The Ecologist". Chaque trimestre, 84 pages couleurs dont un dossier central de plus de 40 pages. Directeur de publication: Edward Goldsmith Redacteur en chef: Thierry Jaccaud.
  • This is not a permanent URL for The Ecologist Asia - a dedicated website is being constructed. meanwhile, however, it will enable you to read articles from the Jan-March 2003 issue, which focuses on large dams in Northeast India.
  • The Pacific Ecologist is published in New Zealand by the Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM). Founded in 1984, by Wellington architect George Porter, PIRM is an organisation dedicated to sustainable use of the earth's resources.
  • The Ecologist para Espana y LatinoAmerica - The Ecologist for Spain and Latin America - which hit the news-stands in April 2000.
  • The Ecologist - the original UK-based publication, founded in 1970, which is now published monthly.

6. Books

  • Green Books publish and distribute a wide range of books on environmental issues, including Edward Goldsmith's "The Way" and The Ecologist's "Go Make a Difference".
  • Buy The Way through this direct link to Green Books (UK).
  • A review of The Case Against the Global Economy (and For A Turn Towards Localization), edited by Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander, for Fourth World Review by Peter Etherden.
  • The Case Against the Global Economy - and For a Turn Towards Localization Editors: Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander. Earthscan, 1996. Winner of the American Political Science Association award for the ‘Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics’.

7. Book reviews

Edward Goldsmith has written 15 books, which have attracted many reviews - both positive and negative.

  • Heureka reviews The Way. "The underlying premise is that of self-regulating, self-organising systems discussed by Fritjof Capra in The Web of Life, but whereas Capra looks at patterns and networks and the meaning of life, Edward Goldsmith looks at life as part of Gaia and elevates ecology to a philosophical, spiritual dimension..."
  • Amazon review of The Way. You can also buy the book here.
  • Review of The case against the global economy on AREWA-online.
  • Lindy Deurvorst reviews The Way. "Edward Goldsmith's Magnum Opus THE WAY strings together the various phenomena of our present-day way of life in the so-called Western World, criticizing and synthesizing them into a grand epos of Holism..."

8. Friends, partners, supporters

  • The Man of the Trees - a new website pertaining to Richard St. Barbe Baker, (1889-1982), the "Man of the Trees." The site includes links to both Edward Goldsmith's in-depth Ecologist Interview with St. Barbe and posthumous Tribute to St. Barbe.
  • The Right Livelihood Awards, often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize",
  • FARM is an organisation that seeks to represent the many small and progressive farrmers whose interests are systematically sidelined by the national Farmers Union.
  • The International Society for Ecology and Culture is a small NGO which seeks to protect both biological and cultural diversity. "Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives."
  • Founded in 1980, the Schumacher Society exists to promote the ideas of E F Scumacher, author of "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered", in the world today. "Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues."
  • The Management School of Restorative Business is a non-profit business school and the developer of EcoPreneur, a progressive management program for sustainable development that empowers concerned individuals with skillful tools to change the way we live.
  • The personal website of Crispin Tickell, the pro-environment former UK Ambassador to the UN, with many of his articles and lectures.
  • Founded in 1994, the International Forum on Globalization aims to expose the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities which revitalize local economies and communities, and ensure long term ecological stability. Edward Goldsmith is a co-counder and director of the IFG.
  • Sanctuary Asia is a leading NGO for the preservation of endangered species in the Indian subcontinent, also closely associated with The Ecologist Asia.
  • The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.
  • The Cancer Prevention Coalition, whose goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates by establishing prevention as "the nation's foremost cancer policy". Chaired by Dr Samuel Epstein, an expert on industrial carcinogens in air, water, the workplace, consumer products, and carcinogenic prescription drugs.
  • Edward Goldsmith is an advisor to Blue Energy Canada Inc, a company that is commercializing the Davis Hydro Turbine, "a technological breakthrough able to generate high-density renewable and emission-free electricity from ocean currents and tides at prices competitive with the cheapest conventional sources of energy today".
  • Goviya - traditional farming in Sinhala, Sri Lanka. Teddy interviewed Tennekoon one of our founder trustees for The Ecologist and for autobiographical film made by Nicholas Claxton.
  • Green ISP is a not for profit ISP that brings environmental awareness to the marketplace. It offers broadband, unmetered, 0845 access, e-mail and webspace, all run from a solar powered office. A percentage of profits is donated to environmental causes.
  • The Institute of Science in Society, under the direction of dissident scientist Dr Mae-Wan Ho, is one of the leading organisations fighting dangerous technologies, especially the genetic modification of food.
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9. Allied causes

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