May 18, 2012

Biotechnology and global warming

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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview Edward Goldsmith for the “Democracy Now!” programme on Pacifica Radio, USA. Broadcast 30 April 1999. The original audio can be found here. Background: In September 1998, The Ecologist produced a special issue called “The Monsanto Files: Can We Survive Genetic Engineering?” exposing the genetic engineering giant’s chequered history and [...]

Corporate power and free trade

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Amy Goodman and Larry Bensky interview Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander for “Democracy Now!” on Pacifica Radio (California, USA). This edition of “Democracy Now!” was produced by Julie Drizzen, and the engineer was Kenneth Mason. Broadcast 29 October 1996, duration 62 minutes. The original audio can be found here. Amy Goodman (presenter): From Pacifica Radio, [...]

Report from the planet

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Edward Goldsmith speaks to the International Forum On Globalization Global Teach-In Conference, Washington DC, USA, 11 May 1996. The talk was broadcast by TUC Radio, and produced by Maria Gilardin [TUC Radio, Box 410009, San Francisco, CA 94141, USA. Panel 2 comprised Ignacio Peon Escalante, Cece Fadope, Tim Lang, Sara Larrain, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Richard Moore, [...]

New lamps for old (transcript)

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Edward Goldsmith, Publisher of The Ecologist, talks with Satish Kumar, Director Of Schumacher College. The interview was published by Schumacher College as a video in the Schumacher Series, produced by Phil Shepherd in 1991. “Schumacher College has produced a series of video and audio tapes documenting a clear expression of visiting scholars’ main ideas and [...]

Edward Goldsmith: the Green Revolutionary – Part Two (transcript)

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This is a transcript of Part Two of Edward Goldsmith: the Green Revolutionary: “The Solution: People and Planet”, in Channel 4′s Fragile Earth series. Teddy argues that the planetary crisis facing us today cannot be solved by further economic progress and technological innovation but only through the cooperative efforts of ordinary people guided by their [...]

Edward Goldsmith: the Green Revolutionary – Part One (transcript)

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This is a transcript of Part One of Edward Goldsmith: the Green Revolutionary: “The Problem: industrial society”, in Channel 4′s Fragile Earth series. Teddy argues that the planetary crisis facing us today cannot be solved by further economic progress and technological innovation but only through the cooperative efforts of ordinary people guided by their faith [...]

Ecology, controls and short-term expedients

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This interview, by Michael Glenny, was broadcast over Radio Free Europe around the time of the launch of The Ecologist in 1970, as part of the “Can We Survive Our Future” radio symposium. It was later published in an edited compendium of interviews broadcast between 1970 and 1971 on Radio Free Europe (Can we survive [...]