the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher
Tercentenary gates unveiled at Richmond Park Richmond Park has unveiled a new set of gates—the St Paul’s Cathedral tercentenary gates—which take pride of place at the entrance to Sidmouth Woods and frame the park’s famous view across the capital. The two words on the gate—The Way—is an epitaph to Edward Goldsmith, author of the book [...]
Jonathon Porritt writes his personal tribute to Teddy. 10 September 2009. Teddy Goldsmith, one of the most important and original thinkers the Green Movement has ever had, died on August 21st 2009. In a funny kind of way, I’m where I am today because of Teddy Goldsmith. I wouldn’t have joined The Ecology Party (now [...]
On 4 September 2009 Last Word on BBC Radio 4 ran this piece on the life of Teddy Goldsmith, featuring exerpts of Teddy’s own speech as well as commentary by his nephew Zac Goldsmith, and his long standing friends and colleagues Jonathon Porritt and Robin Hanbury-Tenison. The presenter is Matthew Bannister. The original audio can [...]
Pedro Burrezo, editor of The Ecologist for Spain and Latin America writes his words of tribute to Teddy Goldsmith, September 2009. This article was kindly translated for this website by Victoria Miller. Edward Goldsmith suffered from an incurable illness for some years. On Friday the 21st of August he left us, at the age of [...]
Peter Bunyard, a long standing friend and colleague of Teddy’s, offers his personal tribute. Written on 28 August 2009. A shorter version of this article was published on The Ecologist website. Teddy died on August 21st, in Tuscany, in his hill-top house, a converted convent, which overlooked one of his favourite places in all the [...]
This page has been created to record personal memories of Teddy (listed in order of surname). To contribute, please contact the editors. Further tributes and obituaries, taking the form of full length articles, can be found under obits (received) and tributes (received). For obituaries hosted on other websites see Obituaries for Edward Goldsmith. “He was [...]
A personal tribute from his close friend and colleague Jerry Mander and staff at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). See also Comments from colleagues and friends on the IFG website. The Board of Directors and staff of the International Forum on Globalization, joined by dozens of Associates and colleagues, deeply regret to announce, and [...]
Here we have collected together links to a variety of online obituaries for Edward Goldsmith, who died near Sienna, Italy on August 21st, 2009. Among these obituaries are some that contain factual inaccuracies, while others perpetuate various myths and misrepresentations that had grown up around him over the years. We include a broad range here [...]
