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Memories of Teddy - This page has been created to record individual memories of Teddy from his friends and colleagues.

Comments by Colin Hines, Convenor of the Green New Deal Group, Director, Finance for the Future - hosted on the IFG website. "One of my favourite Teddy anecdotes was how he decided to stand for his father's old constituency in Suffolk, as a People's Party candidate. He realised he needed a gimmick to get the issues he was trying to raise noticed. He would always tell, amidst gales of laughter, how he contacted 'my friend Aspinall' the zoo owner to obtain a camel to highlight the issue of soil erosion in East Anglia ... He lost his deposit, but in such typical style."

Farewell to Teddy - Caroline Lockhart and the Commision on the Future of Food - hosted on the IFG website. "He brought insights and foresight, joy and laughter into our lives. He was a giant on whose shoulders we all stand. We were so privileged to have known and to have worked with him. His passing is a huge collective loss. We will miss him enormously. His legacy will continue on."

A Remembrance of Teddy Goldsmith by Vandana Shiva - Founder and Director of Navdanya - hosted on the IFG website. "No matter what our particular issue is, Teddy shaped the ideas and campaigns that motivate and mobilize us even today. Our best tribute to him is continuing our collective work with the unique combination of outrage and fun that Teddy infected us with. Teddy was one of my dearest and most precious friends. I miss him deeply."

Comments by Martin Khor, Director of the South Centre, Co-Founder, Third World Network - on the IFG website. "Teddy Goldsmith -- thanks for the science, the spirit, the fight, the friendship, the life, the Way. Each of us and the world, and the Earth, has benefited immensely."

Global Movement mourns the death of Edward Goldsmith, and celebrates his life - "The Board of Directors and staff of the International Forum on Globalization, joined by dozens of Associates and colleagues, deeply regret to announce, and gravely mourn the death of Edward (Teddy) Goldsmith ... as meaningful as all his achievements on the global political stage, for all of his colleagues and collaborators these works may have been overshadowed by the larger-than-life presence of the man himself, the inspirational teacher, beloved guide, hilarious raconteur, and great, intimate, generous friend." Written by Jerry Mander, Cofounder, Distinguished Fellow, IFG.

Obituary: Teddy Goldsmith 1928 - 2009 - David Taylor remembers Teddy Goldsmith, writing in Green World (issue 66, autumn 2009), the magazine of the Green Party of England and Wales. "The last time I saw Teddy was back in 2004 during the run-up to the European Elections. I'd gone up to London to see if he'd contribute to our campaign here in the south west. What stayed with me after I left was the way he said farewell. He shook my hand and then, with the touch of an old fashioned ‘gentleman', placed his left hand on top of our two held hands, and looked into my eyes. I remember the intimacy of that look. I knew it might be the last time I saw him and it was a gesture of remarkable warmth. I first heard of Teddy in a Sunday magazine back in 1972. He was featured in a story about a group, including Jeremy Faull - the party's first-ever county councillor - who'd bought land in Withiel, Cornwall to create a self-sufficient community living close to the land. Some years later, quite coincidentally, I found myself living in the same valley, with Teddy as my neighbour ..."

Edward Goldsmith wiki - on en.wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia. An evolving account of Teddy's life and works.

Teddy Goldsmith - a tribute - 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 world, no less than the mediaeval city of Siena. For Teddy, Siena embodied much of what he believed in; a city with ancient roots going back to the Etruscans, where civic pride and a vibrant living culture was the result of centuries of republicanism and popular participation in the running of the city and where everyone knew everyone else. And the Siennese acknowledged Teddy as one of their own, such that, when word got out, just days before his death, people flooded in from the City to pay their respects to a man whom they admired for his wisdom, humanity and no less his sense of fun ... "

I am where I am today because of Teddy Goldsmith - Jonathon Porritt writes his personal tribute to Teddy. 10 September 2009.

Ecologist and Environmentalist Edward Goldsmith - 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.

Teddy Goldsmith: a tribute - Peter Bunyard pays tribute to the rich life of Edward Goldsmith, writing in The Ecologist, 1 September 2009. There is also a longer version of this article on this website.

The great teacher has passed away - Pedro Burrezo, editor of The Ecologist for Spain and Latin America writes his words of tribute to Teddy Goldsmith, September 2009.

Edward Goldsmith, 1928 - 2009 - Paul Kingsnorth contributes his personal memories of Teddy, 31 August 2009. "Teddy Goldsmith was a curious paradox of a man. Very rich, very establishment, yet also fiercely anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-modern. A pioneer of environmental campaigning, Teddy was making the case against global capitalism before I was even born, and countering its global spread with a vision of his own: a romantic, conservative vision of small communities living 'stable' lives close to the soil ... "

Edward Goldsmith Pioneer of the Green Movement Dies Aged 80 - the Institute for Science in Society records its memories of Teddy, 31 August 2009. "Most of all, Teddy was kind and attentive to everyone to a fault, and always had time for people. He remained a sharp and independent thinker almost to the last. What he enjoyed most was a congenial argument on a finer intellectual point in philosophy, politics, anthropology, religion, art, or any other discipline you care or dare to engage, as Teddy had extraordinary breadth as well as depth in the knowledge he was passionate about ... We love him dearly, all of us at ISIS, for his big heart and soul, for his fount of knowledge and consummate story-telling.We owe him a life-long debt for showing us The Way (his last major work first published in 1996), and because he had so unstintingly championed and supported us over the years."

The Environment Loses a Champion - Paul Craig Roberts writes in Counterpunch, 31 August 2009. "Teddy Goldsmith believed that the high consumption era of hydro-carbon man was of short duration, totally dependent as it is on cheap but exhaustible petroleum energy. Teddy believed that only small-scale societies are viable in the long-run. He opposed the spread into the remaining traditional societies of the development model pushed by the World Bank and western economists ... "

Sad death of a Green pioneer - Economist Colin Hines of the Green New Deal Group pays tribute to the late Teddy Goldsmith: "It's very hard to believe he has gone. 'Loss' is a word that is lightly bandied about at these times, but for me and his family and friends it has a real depth and poignancy. Teddy was quite literally irreplaceable. From his grandee role as one of the founding fathers of the environment movement via that great wakeup call for so many people - The Blueprint for Survival - to his founding the world's first environmental party in 1973 - the People's Party, now known as the Green Party ... "

Tribute to Teddy Goldsmith, a Green pioneer - the Green Party of England & Wales pays its tribute to Teddy - one of the Party's founders and earliest Parliamentary candidates.

Obituary - Edward Goldsmith - by Walter Schwarz, published in The Guardian, Thursday 27 August 2009. "Edward Goldsmith, who has died aged 80, was an influential environmental scholar, polemicist and campaigner who founded and edited the Ecologist. A special issue in 1972, Blueprint for Survival, proposing the formation of a movement for sustainability, was published as a book, sold 750,000 copies in 17 languages and led to the foundation of the People party, later the Ecology party, which eventually became the Green party."

Addio a Goldsmith Ecologista Pionere - by Carlo Petrini, la Repubblica, 26 August 2009. This obituary is provided as a .pdf file (95KB) in the original Italian.

Farewell, Teddy - Carlo Petrini pays tribute. Translated from the original Italian version published in La Repubblica on 26 August 2009. "The death of Edward Goldsmith leaves a gap in the environmentalist movement that cannot be filled. A campaigner since the 1970s, he fought to promulgate ecological sensitivity and promote forms of behaviour conducive to the protection of our planet. I first met Goldsmith a few years ago, when we were both asked to sit on the Commission on the Future of Food, set up by the Tuscany Regional Authority and presided over by Vandana Shiva. Not that I wasn't already familiar with the wealthy Englishman's achievements and extraordinarily lucid, clear, irrevocably radical writings ... "

Edward Goldsmith: environmentalist - "Teddy Goldsmith was a highly influential figure in the world environmental movement ... Though colourfully outspoken, purposefully antagonistic and with political and social views that would make many of today's environmentalists blanch, Goldsmith was one of the founders of the modern green movement. Before he appeared on the scene, as one early follower said, 'much of ecology had been about the complex life in duck ponds'.". Obituary published in The Times, 26 August 2009.

Ecologist founder Edward Goldsmith dies at age 81 - "Edward Goldsmith, the founder of the Ecologist and one of the world's foremost green thinkers, has died at the age of 81. Goldsmith - known almost universally as 'Teddy' - had been suffering from a long-term illness and died peacefully in his sleep on Friday 21st August. He is survived by his second wife, Katherine Goldsmith, and five children ... " Article in The Ecologist, 26 August 2009.

Teddy Goldsmith - obituary in The Telegraph, published 25 August 2009. "Teddy Goldsmith, who died on August 21 aged 80, was a champion of conservation and organic farming, the elder brother of the billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, and founder of The Ecologist magazine and the Ecology Party, which later became the Green Party ... "

The Way - quotes from reviews - this is a compendium of quotes from reviews of The Way - an ecological worldview by Edward Goldsmith.

Teddy speaks - This is a compilation of statements by Edward Goldsmith taken from correspondence and some conversations with a close follower of Teddy's writings. These notes represent the only record of Teddy's words, the original letters now discarded. The quotations are undated, other than can be inferred from references to dates within the text. Quotations from different times and sources are also joined together without break. However the text as a whole, rings true to Teddy's opinions and views expressed elsewhere, and come with Teddy's authentic 'voice'. It is organised under the headings The Way, Climate, Globalisation, Ecosystems, Education.

True colours - The Goldsmith clan's stripe of conservative ecology is deeply flawed, but without it where would many activists be?. Derek Wall, Green Party Principal Speaker, muses on the pivotal but eccentric role of the Goldsmith brothers, Teddy and Jimmy, in Britain's Green movement. Published in The Guardian, 1 October 2007.

The Godfather of Green - having launched The Ecologist 37 years ago, Teddy Goldsmith has been instrumental in everything from the setting up of the world's first political green party to being the first to expose many of the problems associated with global development, such as giant dams and nuclear power. Now 79, he is as vociferous as ever, but finally the rest of the world is beginning to catch up. By Paul Kingsnorth, former deputy editor of The Ecologist. Published in The Ecologist Volume 37 Issue 2, March 2007.

Books by Edward Goldsmith - we aim to present here a comprehensive list of all Edward Goldsmith's published books, whether as author, editor, co-author or co-editor, in all main editions, languages and countries.

CV - Edward Goldsmith's curriculum vitae.

Eco Hero - Edward Goldsmith - Annabel Freyberg interviews Edward Goldsmith for the Telegraph Magazine, 16 December 2006.

Green revolutionary - interview of Edward Goldsmith by Bittu Sahgal, published in Sanctuary Asia magazine, at the 2004 World Social Forum, Mumbai.

The prize fighters - for 20 years, the alternative Nobels have recognised men and women who challenge the injustices of globalisation. Walter Schwarz meets the radicals pushing for change - including Teddy Goldsmith. Published in the Guardian, 30 June 1999. "The fiery Edward Goldsmith, founder-editor of the Ecologist, who became a laureate in 1991 'for his uncompromising critique of industrialism and promotion of alternatives', insists that only a change in lifestyle and the way society is organised can save the planet ... "

Pointing the way - Real World magazine Interviews Teddy Goldsmith about A Blueprint for Survival, The Way, and the need to move towards a sustainable society. Published in Real World No. 6, summer 1992.

Uncle Teddy - This is a chapter about Teddy Goldsmith from Green Warriors by the prodigious environmental writer Fred Pearce. Green Warriors was published by The Bodley Head, London, 10 January 1991.

Right Livelihood Award - in 1991 Teddy was the recipient of an Honorary Award for " ... for his uncompromising critique of industrialism and promotion of environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to it."