http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher Thu, 17 May 2012 20:42:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1355/the-post-industrial-age/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1355/the-post-industrial-age/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:20:13 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1355 In the early years of its publication, The Ecologist came with the subtitle “Journal of the Post Industrial Age”. Its message—that society needed to begin voluntarily de-industrialising if it was to avoid global catastrophe in the century ahead, a disaster that would mean de-industrial­isation by default—with all the suffering that would entail. The seminal Blueprint [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1355/the-post-industrial-age/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1261/aluna-2012-the-kogis-return/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1261/aluna-2012-the-kogis-return/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:59:37 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1261 In this new film (due April 2012), Alan Ereira returns to the Kogi of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia, 20 years on from his first visit * which opened the world to this lost pre-Columbian civilisation, and its message that we (“the Younger Brothers”) are set on a course of global self-destruction. This [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1261/aluna-2012-the-kogis-return/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1344/the-crisis-of-civilization-2012/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1344/the-crisis-of-civilization-2012/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:56:11 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1344 Based on the book A Users Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and how to save it, Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed explains how systemic failings intrinsic to industrial society are converging inexorably towards its collapse before the century’s end. Rather than attempting to change the current industrial system—which is the root of the problem—policy makers [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1344/the-crisis-of-civilization-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:20:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=881 Published in The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 2, February 1975. We live in an Age of Faith, not in God but in Science. If most of us are still capable of facing the mounting problems of the world today with relative. equanimity, this is because we believe that Science will provide us with the means [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/881/is-science-a-religion/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:15:52 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1074 This is Chapter 20 of the book Can Britain Survive?, published by Tom Stacey, London, 1971, and Sphere Books, London, 1971 (paperback). Another version of this article was published in The Ecologist, Vol. 1 No. 13, July 1971. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » When social systems (or any other systems) join together to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1074/social-disintegration-causes/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:10:06 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1128 Section 2: A Blueprint for Survival. The Blueprint occupied the entire issue of The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1972, in advance of the world’s first Environment Summit (the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm). The principal authors were Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen, with additional help from Michael Allaby, John [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1128/towards-the-stable-society-strategy-for-change/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1338/the-athabasca-tar-sands/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1338/the-athabasca-tar-sands/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:05:45 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1338 As a result of the peak in global crude oil production and the subsequent explosion in oil prices, the world’s largest and dirtiest industrial project is racing ahead in the Canadian heartland of Alberta. The oil industry is now heavily engaged in excavating the vast, and previously uneconomic, tar sands sitting under the Athabasca boreal [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1338/the-athabasca-tar-sands/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:17 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=51 Mass tourism is not a benign force of economic development, as popularly supposed. It rather corrodes the health, well-being and environment of the societies it collides with, while the promised benefits fail to materialise for the great majority of people. This article, one of the first ever critiques of mass tourism, was published in The [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/51/pollution-by-tourism/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:06:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=779 This is one of a series of six talks by Edward Goldsmith, broadcast on the World Business Report programme of the BBC World Service, 15-19 December 2003. See Related Articles on the right for others in the series. During much of the nearly 20 years I lived in rural Cornwall I had no car (though [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/779/can-we-cope-with-the-growing-oil-shortage/feed/ 0 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