http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org Environmentalist, Author, Philosopher Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:24:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:00:21 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=737 A previously unpublished book review of Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society, by Eugene Odum (third edition, published by Sennar Associates, Sunderland, Mass., USA, 1997). Eugene Odum, who was Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia, was probably the most distinguished ecologist of his day. His principal textbooks Basic Ecology (1983) and its [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/737/ecology-a-bridge/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:58 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=41 Edward Goldsmith explores the themes of knowledge, intuition, aesthetics and the Sacred. Published in The Structurist magazine Nos. 41-42, 2001-2002: “Art and Altruism”. It seems increasingly clear that the principal method of acquiring knowledge about the World, is via a mysterious, ill-defined process we call intuition and that is closely related to our emotions and to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/41/art-and-ethics/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=50 This is a discussion of the multitude of pollutants, chemical and radiological, that are being pumped into the environment in the name of progress and development, and the failure of regulators to tackle the growing problem as to do so would challenge the principle of never-ending economic growth that threatens the entire biosphere. The article [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/50/can-pollution-be-controlled/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=900 Edward Goldsmith interviews Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who risked everything to challenge GM giant Monsanto. Interview conducted on 1 May 2004. Background: For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/900/spanner-in-the-works/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=52 An overview of the life and work of the eminent German-American geneticist, Richard Goldschmidt, and the angry reaction he received from the defenders of Orthodox Darwinism as a result of the challenging theory of evolution expounded in his magnum opus The Material Basis of Evolution. Richard Benedict Goldschmidt was born in Frankfurt in 1878 and [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/52/richard-benedict-goldschmidt/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1320/indigenous-peoples-declaration-on-climate-change/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1320/indigenous-peoples-declaration-on-climate-change/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00:04 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1320 At the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Durban, South Africa in December, the representatives of Indigenous Peoples from around the world made their own Declaration (full text in English below—sourced from Forest Peoples). See also the Proposal for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth made at the World People’s [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1320/indigenous-peoples-declaration-on-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1153/a-blueprint-for-survival-a-review/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1153/a-blueprint-for-survival-a-review/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:49 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1153 This brief review of A Blueprint for Survival by Mark Anslow was published in The Ecologist, July 2007, in the “Classic book club” section – “Revisiting the books that shaped the environmental movement”. Reading A Blueprint for Survival written by Ecologist founder Edward Goldsmith [with Robert Allen and colleagues], is at once incredibly refreshing and [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1153/a-blueprint-for-survival-a-review/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/552/aotearoa-land-of-the-long-white-cloud/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/552/aotearoa-land-of-the-long-white-cloud/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:33 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=552 Excerpt from Globalisation and Maori. TKM Productions, Aotearoa 1998. For tens of thousands of years tribal societies around the world achieved the universal ideal of a sustainable balance between individual, community, and environment. These advanced and highly diverse cultures maintained stable and fulfilling societies characterised by small, human-scale communities, low-impact technologies, sustainable resource management, successful [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/552/aotearoa-land-of-the-long-white-cloud/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1315/belo-monte-announcement-of-war-2012/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1315/belo-monte-announcement-of-war-2012/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:09 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1315 The construction of the Belo Monte dam is one of the most controversial developments ever seen in Brazilian history. The issues raised by its construction go beyond environmental, cultural and social impacts. The approval of a gigantic development in the heart of the Amazon forest, among indigenous lands, has raised alarming concerns. The independent film [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1315/belo-monte-announcement-of-war-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1317/the-emerald-forest-1985/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1317/the-emerald-forest-1985/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:04 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1317 John Boorman’s prescient tale of the Brazilian Amazon, where the construction of a giant dam threatens more than the indigenous tribes whose lands will be overwhelmed.]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1317/the-emerald-forest-1985/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1249/brazils-large-dam-projects/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1249/brazils-large-dam-projects/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:54 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1249 Learn about the harmful impacts of (and alternatives to) the massive Belo Monte Dam Complex on the Amazon’s Xingu River in the videos below. Read Edward Goldsmith’s and Nicholas Hildyard’s groundbreaking study The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams on this website. Find out more at— amazonwatch.org internationalrivers.org xinguvivo.org.br “Belo Monte—Announcement of a War”  [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1249/brazils-large-dam-projects/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1313/richard-willson-r-i-p/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1313/richard-willson-r-i-p/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:09 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1313 Peter Bunyard and Robert Prescott-Allen remember their old friend, cartoonist extraordinaire, Richard Willson who died in November 2011. By the time of Teddy Goldsmith’s memorial service, almost two years’ ago, Richard Willson was suffering severely from Parkinson’s disease, but his mind was as razor sharp as ever. He had made an extraordinary effort to be [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1313/richard-willson-r-i-p/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=550 Edward Goldsmith explains the corporate takeover of governments and the global centralised planning being orchestrated by multinationals via the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Globalisation and Maori explores this corporate agenda through its impact upon the Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and other peoples. TKM Productions, Aotearoa 1998. See also Aotearoa: Land of the Long White [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/550/globalisation-and-maori/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:36 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1303 India and China are committing “one of the greatest crimes in history” in agreeing to allow Western agricultural produce into their markets, says Edward Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist magazine and a celebrated pioneer of Britain’s environment movement since the sixties. Original title “Opening markets is not sustainable”. LONDON, August 26, 2002 (IPS) “Opening up [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1303/globalising-agriculture-is-not-sustainable/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1300/human-guinea-pigs/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1300/human-guinea-pigs/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:00:17 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1300 Árpád Pusztai is the pioneering biochemist who first alerted the public to the health risks of consuming genetically modified food. After immediate, and widespread praise for his findings, he was summarily dismissed from his post at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health—his career in tatters. Who was behind this silencing of public-interest science? With [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1300/human-guinea-pigs/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:26 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=931 Or “Many paths to nonsense: information theory applied to the living world”. Will the proliferation of information technology really help us to solve the important issues we face today, or will it simply add to our already mounting problems? Goldsmith argues (in 1982) that the impending development of the internet and resulting “information revolution” will [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/931/the-super-informed-society/feed/ 0