Edward
Goldsmith is an Anglo-French environmentalist and eco-philosopher who was the
first editor of The Ecologist magazine. Older brother of billionaire Sir
James Goldsmith, Edward Goldsmith was one of the founders of the Ecology Party,
which later became the Green Party. As editor of The Ecologist from 1969
to 1990 and then again from 1997 to 1998, Teddy Goldsmith has been a leading voice
for environmental sustainability. He has been an outspoken advocate of conservation
and organic farming and a return from an industrial society to a rural one, with
an emphasis on the wisdom of indigenous peoples. His most popular book, The
Way: An Ecological Worldview, first published in 1992, has been translated
into a number of languages throughout the world. Edward Goldsmith is a director
of the International Forum on Globalization and in 2001 he co-edited the book,
The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Towards the Localization,
which includes 43 essays by the most important voices in the anti-globalization
movement. In 1991 he received the Right Livelihood Awards (often referred to as
the Alternative Nobel Prize) "...for
his uncompromising critique of industrialism and promotion of environmentally
sustainable and socially just alternatives to it.”
