http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org the late environmentalist, author, & philosopher Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= 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, 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 time they lead [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1261/aluna-2012-the-kogis-return/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/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/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/1291/uncontacted-tribes-could-be-wiped-out-by-drug-traffickers-and-oil-companies/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1291/uncontacted-tribes-could-be-wiped-out-by-drug-traffickers-and-oil-companies/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:00:33 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1291 Oil companies, loggers and organised crime. What’s the difference? Gregor MacLennan reports for amazonwatch.org. More at uncontactedtribes.org. “Uncontacted Tribes” Could Be Wiped Out by Drug Traffickers and Oil Companies In Peru, less than 150 miles to the south, oil company Pluspetrol in consortium with Spanish Repsol and US company Hunt Oil is pushing ahead with [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1291/uncontacted-tribes-could-be-wiped-out-by-drug-traffickers-and-oil-companies/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1252/progress-whose-progress/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1252/progress-whose-progress/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:33:43 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1252 Survival International asks the great taboo question of our time—is the industrial development model really progressive? And who does it really benefit? Find out more with SI’s special report “Progress Can Kill”. Read Edward Goldsmith’s related article Development as colonialism. And watch Wade Davis’s powerful video presentation below examining the rapid extinction of our planet’s [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1252/progress-whose-progress/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1094/the-vernacular-economy-is-localized-and-hence-largely-self-sufficient/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1094/the-vernacular-economy-is-localized-and-hence-largely-self-sufficient/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:09 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1094 Published as Chapter 59 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “Whenever the timber trade is good, permanent famine reigns in the Ogowe region.”    Albert Schweitzer “Free [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1094/the-vernacular-economy-is-localized-and-hence-largely-self-sufficient/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/805/extinction-of-the-ethnosphere-2003/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/805/extinction-of-the-ethnosphere-2003/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:35:06 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=805 In this video presentation Wade Davis explains how cultural diversity is undergoing an extinction rate far greater than that of biological diversity.]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/805/extinction-of-the-ethnosphere-2003/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:15:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=897 The decline of the many municipal religions of the city-states of North Arabia created the opening for the establishment of Islam as the national religion of the Arab people. From Towards a Unified Science, The Ecologist Vol. 1 No. 18, December 1971. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » We know very little about the [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/897/the-disintegration-of-pre-islamic-society-in-north-arabia/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/885/the-great-takeover-and-its-reversal/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/885/the-great-takeover-and-its-reversal/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:00:46 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=885 Published as chapter 26 of The Case Against the the Global Economy, Sierra Club Books, 1996, under the title “The last word – a personal commentary”. « previous chapter · contents Original note: There are no cosmetic solutions to the problems that confront us. They are the inevitable consequences of economic growth or development and in [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/885/the-great-takeover-and-its-reversal/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:44:31 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1215 An obituary for Jean Liedloff—former editor of The Ecologist and author of The Continuum Concept—who died on March 15th, 2011. See below for a list of Jean Liedloff’s contributions to The Ecologist. A “Living Treasure” Dies by Geralyn Gendreau “Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept, died peacefully in the pre-dawn hours on her houseboat [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1215/jean-liedloff-r-i-p/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:00:53 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=802 “Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden”. Education as the ultimate act of Western colonialism, destroying cultural diversity and spreading human monoculture—in its own image—around the globe. Interviews with Wade Davis, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, et alia. Schooling the World website. Trailer below.]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/802/schooling-the-world/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/852/letter-to-the-guardian/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/852/letter-to-the-guardian/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:00:05 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=852 This letter was written to John Vidal, the Guardian‘s environment editor, in response to accusations by George Monbiot in “Stealing our clothes”, published in the Guardian on 30 April 2002. The article also appears on Monbiot’s website under the title “Black shirts in green trousers”. In the article, Monbiot asserts that Edward Goldsmith “assumes that [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/852/letter-to-the-guardian/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/768/archaic-societies-and-cosmic-order-a-summary/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/768/archaic-societies-and-cosmic-order-a-summary/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:58 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=768 This is an edited version of Chapter 61 of Edward Goldsmith’s book The Way: towards an ecological world view, published by Themis Books. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 30 No. 1, January–February 2000. “What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not an isolated salvation of his soul. I am [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/768/archaic-societies-and-cosmic-order-a-summary/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/46/vernacular-man-follows-the-way/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/46/vernacular-man-follows-the-way/#comments Sun, 31 May 1998 23:00:15 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/edwardgoldsmith/?p=46 Published as Chapter 61 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “Tao is like Dike, the Way, the way of nature; and man’s whole religion, his whole moral [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/46/vernacular-man-follows-the-way/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1104/the-way-a-summary-review/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1104/the-way-a-summary-review/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1104 This summary review of The Way: An Ecological Worldview was written for Schumacher College in 1998. First published in 1992, The Way is Edward Goldsmith’s magnum opus. This second edition of The Way, was published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, in 1998, and was fully revised, incorporating a glossary, page references, and index. [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1104/the-way-a-summary-review/feed/ 0