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/1362/seeds-of-freedom-2012/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1362/seeds-of-freedom-2012/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:00:24 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1362 Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seeds from their root at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity used to monopolise the global food system. The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system, and genetically modified seeds (GMO) in particular, has [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1362/seeds-of-freedom-2012/feed/ 3 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/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/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/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:25:04 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=727 There is an increasing tendency to blame human ills – physical and psychological – on ‘defective’ genes. But is it our genes that are defective? Or is it rather the pathological environment in which we live? Deprived of community, eating nutritionally impoverished foods, surrounded by industrial pollution . . . the raw conditions of life [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/727/the-gene-for-unemployment/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1223/gasland-2010/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1223/gasland-2010/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:39 +0000 The Editors http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1223 Josh Fox’s documentary-exposé of the gas “fracking” industry and its mis­leading attempts to portray this highly polluting technology as a “greener” source of energy (trailer below). Find out more here (blog), and here (pdf).]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1223/gasland-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1279/biotechnology-and-global-warming/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1279/biotechnology-and-global-warming/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:06:25 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1279 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 [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1279/biotechnology-and-global-warming/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/747/my-fears-about-gm-food-crops/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/747/my-fears-about-gm-food-crops/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:00:39 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=747 In this introduction to “The Monsanto Files”, The Ecologist‘s special issue on Monsanto, Edward Goldsmith engages with the problems of corporate control of the food chain as well as the potential health issues associated with genetic modification. The 60-page exposé of the world’s major biotech company was the best-selling issue of The Ecologist ever, selling [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/747/my-fears-about-gm-food-crops/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:05 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=710 "Cancer is now a disease that afflicts one out of three people, and everybody knows in their hearts, and also on the basis of countless studies, what one of the main causes are: exposure to carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe, and ionising radiation - from medical X-rays, nuclear tests and radioactive emissions from nuclear plants."]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/710/cancer-are-the-experts-lying/feed/ 1 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/882/industrial-pollution-getting-away-with-the-crime/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/882/industrial-pollution-getting-away-with-the-crime/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 1984 23:00:24 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=882 In the UK, there is little effective legal sanction against even the most egregiously criminal industrial polluters. But in the USA, aggressive prosecutors armed with effective environmental laws have achieved remarkable successes. This editorial article, co-written with Peter Bunyard, was published in The Ecologist Vol. 14 No. 4, August 1984. In Britain the legal system [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/882/industrial-pollution-getting-away-with-the-crime/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1025/dams-pollution-and-the-reduction-of-food-supplies/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1025/dams-pollution-and-the-reduction-of-food-supplies/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:39 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=1025 Published as Chapter 15 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Volume 1. Overview. Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Worthyvale Manor Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT, UK, 1984. By Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » Introduction Since the early 1960s, environmental pollution has become a topic of increasing concern. Disasters [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/1025/dams-pollution-and-the-reduction-of-food-supplies/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/953/under-control/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/953/under-control/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 1980 23:00:46 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=953 Do the laws regulating pesticide use in Britain really protect our health and environment? This article was written as the Introduction to The Pesticide Conspiracy by Robert van den Bosch (April 1980, Doubleday, reprinted November 1989, University of California Press). It was also published in The Ecologist Vol. 10 No. 3, March 1980. In the [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/953/under-control/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/993/the-scapegoat-principle/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/993/the-scapegoat-principle/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 1980 00:00:43 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=993 A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 10 No. 3, March 1980, by The Editors. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. The phenoxy herbicides are a group that includes 2,4,5-T and 2,4,D. Of the two, 2,4,D is by far the biggest money spinner. According to [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/993/the-scapegoat-principle/feed/ 0 http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/901/pesticides-create-pests/ http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/901/pesticides-create-pests/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 1980 00:00:16 +0000 Edward Goldsmith http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/?p=901 Published in The Ecologist Vol. 10 No. 3, March 1980. Shell chemicals currently run an advertisement which states that 30 percent of the world’s crops is consumed by pests. The implication is clear: more and more pesticides must be bought from Shell to spray over the world’s crops in order to make more food available [...]]]> http://www.edwardgoldsmith.org/901/pesticides-create-pests/feed/ 0