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: Online archives generally don’t go far back beyond 2000. If you cannot find a particular work online, you might 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 Best of Friends, John Aspinall, MacMillan, 1976 (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)
- “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)
- 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)
- * Goldsmith: money, women and power, Chris Hutchens & Dominic Midgley, Mainstream, 1998 (about James Goldsmith, entries)
- Annabel: an unconventional life, Annabel Goldsmith, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004 (entries)
- 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)
- Anecdotes, Kathy Goldsmith (to be published)
Articles
- Maddox vs. Goldsmith, New Scientist, 4th May 1972
- Communities that Seek Peace with Nature, The Futurist, December 1974
- A blueprint for deindustrialisation, New Scientist, 26th may 1977
- * The Primitive Barrier to Political Ecology, Brian Johnson, The Ecologist, Vol.7, No.3, pp88-93, 1977 (aka “Ecological policies not advanced by Goldsmithian cosmology”)
- * Doomsday Revisited, The Economist, May 21st 1977
- * Looking back to the future: Utopian Ecology, Al Bradshaw, The Ecologist Quarterly, No.4, Winter 1978
- * Beyond ecology: study in systematic ideology, George Walford, Science and Public Policy, October 1983
- The Cheerful Doomsmith, Observer Magazine, 9th December 1984 (interview)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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
See also: criticisms (rebuked), interviews (received), reviews (received), tributes (received), video, audio, gallery, and biography categories.
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