Books and articles by other writers which discuss Edward Goldsmith and his work (including mentions, praise, * criticisms, ** personal attacks—of which, see Goldsmith’s rebuttal: My answer).
RESEARCHERS: The following list is by no means exhaustive. GoogleBooks now provides a comprehensive database of most texts published in the English language and is a recommended starting point for hunting down leads. If you cannot find a particular work online, you may wish to try your local library and use their inter-library loans service, or try the British Library directly which maintains a comprehensive archive of most published books and journals.
Books
- The Restless Generation: a crisis in mobility, Patrick Rivers, Davis-Poynter, 1972
- The Best of Friends, John Aspinall, MacMillan, 1976 (entry)
- The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies: Critical Perspectives, Frederick H. Buttel, Howard Newby, Taylor & Francis, 1980 (entry)
- Creative Alternatives to Communism: Guidelines for the Future, Donald Wilhelm, Ardent Media, 1981 (entry)
- Environmentalism, Timothy O’Riordan, Taylor & Francis, 1981 (analysis)
- Science and Public Policy, Vols. 9-10, Beech Tree, 1982 (entry)
- * The Roots of Modern Environmentalism, David Pepper, Routledge, 1984 (entries, particularly concerning Blueprint for Survival)
- The Passion of John Aspinall, Brian Masters, Jonathon Cape, 1988 (entries)
- Tribalism in History: the contribution of ancient and modern tribal cultures, Douglas Mackewen (MacEwan), Volturna Press, 1989 (discussion of work on applying tribal approaches to modern nations)
- New Models in Geography, Vol. 1, Richard Peet and Nigel Thrift, eds., Unwin, 1989 (entry)
- “Uncle Teddy”, in Green Warriors, Fred Pearce, The Bodley Head, London, 10 January 1991 (chapter about Edward Goldsmith)
- Billionaire, Ivan Fallon, Little Brown, 1991 (about James Goldsmith, entries)
- * Ecology and Utility: The Philosophical Dilemmas of Planetary Management, Lincoln Allison, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991 (entry)
- Rethinking the Future: The Correspondence Between Geoffrey Vickers and Adolph Lowe, Jeanne Vickers, ed., Transaction Publishers, 1991 (entries)
- Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement, John McCormick, Indiana University Press, 1991 (entry)
- Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach, Robyn Eckersley, SUNY Press, 1992 (entry)
- * Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice, David Pepper, Routledge, 1993 (entries)
- Fantasy, the Bomb and the Greening of Britain. Romantic Protest 1945–1980, Meredith Veldman, Cambridge UP, 1994 (section on Edward Goldsmith’s systems theory, and other work)
- Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines, Mano Daniel, Lester E. Embree, Springer, 1994
- Invisible Patterns: Ecology and Wisdom in Business and Profit, Jon Lund Hansen, Per A. Christensen, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995 (discussion of homeotely and heterotely in a business context)
- The Environment and Christian Ethics, Michael S. Northcott, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (entries on moral philosophy)
- Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape, Robert A. Hart, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1996 (entry)
- * Modern Environmentalism: An Introduction, David Pepper, Taylor & Francis, 1996 (entries)
- * Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, JHU Press, 1997
- * Transforming Human Culture: Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis, Jay Earley, SUNY Press, 1997
- * Goldsmith: money, women and power, Chris Hutchens & Dominic Midgley, Mainstream, 1998 (about James Goldsmith, entries)
- * The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, Virginia I. Postrel, Free Press, 1998 (entry)
- * Environmental Democracy: A Contextual Approach, Michael Mason, Earthscan, 1999
- * Nature’s Holism: Holism, Ecology & Evolution, Laurence Evans, iUniverse, 1999 (entries)
- * Green Political Thought (3rd Edition), Andrew Dobson, Routledge, 2000 (entries)
- Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment, Ian Welsh, Routledge, 2000 (discusses the Luxulyan protest camp)
- Preservation Versus the People?: Nature, Humanity, and Political Philosophy, Mathew Humphrey, Oxford University Press, 2002 (extensive exploration of Goldsmith’s ecological philosophy)
- * Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought, Peter R. Hay, Indiana University Press, 2002 (aka A Companion to Environmental Thought, Edinburgh University Press, 2002)
- * Society, Ethics, and Technology, eds. Ralph Edelbach, Morton Emanuel Winston, Wadsworth, 2002
- Annabel: an unconventional life, Annabel Goldsmith, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004 (entries)
- Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities, Stephen Wheeler, Routledge, 2004
- The Unforgiving Minute, David Sanctuary Howard, The Memoir Club, 2004 (entries, photo)
- * The Gamblers, John Pearson, Century, 2005 (entries)
- Visionaries of the 20th Century: a Resurgence anthology, ed. Satish Kumar et al., Green Books, 2006 (includes a profile by Peter Bunyard)
- The Goldschmidts: A European Dynasty, Anthony Allfrey, Timewell Press, 22 Feb 2007 (entries, photos)
- * Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, Tamir Bar-On, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007
- * The Environment: A Sociological Introduction, Philip W. Sutton, Polity, 2007
- Transfrontier Conservation in Africa: At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature, M. Ramutsindela, CABI, 2007
- The Art of Interconnected Thinking: Tools and Concepts for a New Approach to Tackling Complexity, (Die Kunst, vernetzt zu denken: Ideen und Werkzeuge für einen neuen Umgang mit Komplexität – Ein Bericht an den Club of Rome), Frederic Vester, trans. J.A. Underwood, (DTV) MCB Publishing House, (2002) 2007 (entries on contribution to systems theory)
- Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law, H. Patrick Glenn, Oxford University Press, 2007 (entries discussing chthonic legal traditions)
- ** The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power, Melanie Phillips, Encounter Books, 2011
- Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement, Matthew Reed, Earthscan, 2012
- Digination: Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains, Robert C. MacDougall, Lexington Books, 2012 (entry on purposiveness in relation to ‘media ecology’)
- Anecdotes, Kathy Goldsmith (to be published)
Articles
- Maddox vs. Goldsmith, New Scientist, 4th May 1972
- * A challenge to the prophets of calamity, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Letters, May 1972
- Ecological changes, New Scientist, Feedback, 13th December 1973
- Communities that Seek Peace with Nature, The Futurist, December 1974
- Goldsmith’s brainchild, Jon Tinker, New Scientist, Review, 4th September 1975
- Ariadne, New Scientist, 7th August 1975
- A blueprint for deindustrialisation, New Scientist, 26th may 1977
- * The Primitive Barrier to Political Ecology, Brian Johnson, The Ecologist, Vol.7, No.3, pp. 88-93, 1977 (aka “Ecological policies not advanced by Goldsmithian cosmology”)
- * Doomsday Revisited, The Economist, May 21st 1977
- The Reykjavik Imperative, New Scientist, 23rd June 1977
- Professional opponents move in, New Scientist, This Week, 20th October 1977
- * The stable society, Tim Robinson, New Scientist, Review, 17th August 1978
- * Looking back to the future: Utopian Ecology, Al Bradshaw, The Ecologist Quarterly, No.4, Winter 1978
- Ecological Party, New Statesman, Vol. 106, 1983
- * Beyond ecology: study in systematic ideology, George Walford, Science and Public Policy, October 1983
- The Cheerful Doomsmith, Observer Magazine, 9th December 1984 (interview)
- Dams Disrupting Tribal Lives, Agriculture, Vegetarian Times, News Digest, May 1985
- One Man’s Battle for the Environment, Today-Auckland Star, 24th March 1986
- Brave new world hits marital hurdle, Sunday Times, 28th May 1989
- Teddy Goldsmith: the Prophet of Loss, Charles Nevin, The Evening Standard Magazine, August 1989
- Man has only thirty years left, The Sunday Times, 29th October, 1989
- Green is also the colour of money, Lewis Chester, The Sunday Correspondent, 24th September 1989
- Engineer of the green machine, The Sunday Independent, 22nd July 1990
- The Lion and the Lamb, Peter Popham, The Independent Magazine, 8th December 1990
- Green sheep of the family, Alexander Baron, Investors Chronicle, 12 January 1990 (interview and profile)
- The Thoughts of Chairman Ted, Alexander Baron
- Not crazy after all these years, Daily Telegraph, 14th July 1990
- Green With Go, NZ Listener & TV Times, 20th May 1991 (interview)
- The Final Crusade, London Portrait Magazine, May 1991
- The Green Man, Sam Llewellyn, Country Living, July 1993 (interview)
- * A Short History of the Green Party of England and Wales, Derek Wall, 1993 (republished in Another Green World blog)
- How Deep is Deep Enough?, Ullrich Melle, in Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Activism, ed. Don E. Marietta, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995
- The Way (review), Alastair McIntosh, Worldviews: Environment, Culture Religion, 27th December 1996
- Killer Food, Healthy Eating, 1997 (interview)
- Billionaire with a Cause by Sally Bedell Smith, Vanity Fair, May 1997
- Printers Pulp Monsanto Edition of The Ecologist, The Guardian, 29th September 1998
- **Blood and Culture: Ethnic Conflict and the Authoritarian Right, Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House, January 1999
- The Other Goldsmith: how Teddy Goldsmith has played godfather to the environmental movement, The Economist, 17th April 1999
- The prize fighters, The Guardian, 30th June 1999
- ** Critical Notice of Edward Goldsmith, The Way: an ecological worldview, Wendy Donner, Dept. Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada, 26th July 1999
- ** Goldsmith and his Gaian Hierarchy, Eric Krebbers, Fabel van de Illegaal, 16 Sept 1999
- ** Millionaire Goldsmith supports the left and the extreme right, Eric Krebbers, De Fabel van de illegaal, September 1999
- ** Who’s Who in the Green Movement: the Goldsmith Klan, Bob Finch, Mappa Mundi, No. 16, The Mundi Club
- * Red, Green or a new shade of Grey?, Derek Wall, Red Pepper, February 2000
- Global Warming: Teddy refuses to grin and bear it, Times of India, 12th March 2000
- * Age of Rage, Fred Pearce, The Guardian, Wednesday July 12th 2000
- ** The “Jeremy Bentham” Behind New Terrorism, Scott Thompson, Executive Intelligence Review (website of Lyndon LaRouche with many other articles attacking Edward Goldsmith), 24th Aug 2001
- Biblical Proportions, Mark Revington, The New Zealand Listener, 27th April 2002
- ** Stealing our clothes (“Black shirts in green trousers”), George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday April 30th 2002
- Eco-preacher, Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald, 26th May 2002
- ** The Dark Side of Political Ecology, Peter Zegers, Communalism: International Journal For A Rational Society, December 2002
- * Janus-Faced Utopianism: The Politics of Ecology, Andrew Dobson, in Explorations in Environmental Political Theory: Thinking About What We Value, ed. Joel Jay Kassiola, M.E. Sharpe, 2003
- Intuition, Reason, and Environmental Argument, Mathew Humphrey, in Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice, eds. Andrew Light and Avner de-Shalit, MIT Press, 2003
- Environment News, Issue 2, Winter 2003, Richmond Environmental Information Centre (reporting on a speech at the AGM)
- The Conservative Ecology of Edward Goldsmith, Richard Morris, Alternative Green, No. 36, Winter 2005–6
- * True Colours, Derek Wall, The Guardian, 1st October 2007
- * Growing up in the shadow of Fitzroy Maclean, Charles Maclean, Sunday Times, June 15th 2008
- My Grandfather’s Secret, Jemima Kahn, Sunday Times, August 10th 2008
- The Eco Gardeners from Tuscany, Caroline Donald, Sunday Times, Feb 1st 2009
- * Richard Ingrams’s Week: It takes all kinds to get involved in the eco debate, The Independent, 29th August 2009
- * Light and dark shades of green, FT.com, October 2nd 2009
- A Personal View of Environmentalism, James Lovelock, in Theories of Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a Selection of Classic Readings, Gordon Graham, Taylor & Francis, 2010
- Wikipedia (entry)
French
- «Teddy Goldsmith: Sauvons la Terre, Point de Vue», 22nd Août 1991 (interview, photos)
- * «Le dérive extrémiste d’Antoine Waechter», Christiane Chombeau, Le Monde, 18 February 1999
- * «Waechter accusé par les siens de dérive brune», Nicole Gauthier, Libération, 12 February 1999
- * «Waechter, Goldsmith, etc.», Silence, No. 243, April 1999
- «Recyclé», Liberation, 14th June 2001 (profile)
Spanish
- Ecología y Espiritualidad, Pedro Burruezo, Obelisco, 2008
Dissertations
- “La Sociologia Ecologica di Edward Goldsmith”, Gianfranco de Santis, Doctoral thesis (University of Rome: Facolta Di Magistero, Corso di Laurea in Sociologia, 1978)
- “From Earth’s last islands: the global origins of Green politics”, Christine Dann, Doctoral thesis, (Lincoln University, NZ, 1999), (entries)
- “The Ecologist Magazine 1970–2007: a case study”, Kristen Harding, Master’s thesis (University of Plymouth, 28th September 2007), (entries)
Obituaries
See Obituaries for Edward Goldsmith and obits (received) category
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- Calling Stars: Words of “Paul the Carpenter”, November 1970 (manuscripts)
- ** www.undueinfluence.com—organisational connections according to Ron Arnold
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