Radical Consultation - Who's Who Nicholas Albery is a director of a number of charitable projects, including the ‘Institute for Social Inventions’, the ‘Global Ideas Bank’, the ‘Natural Death Centre’, the ‘Poetry Challenge’, the ‘ApprenticeMaster Alliance’ and the 'www.DoBe.org' website for participatory events. Nicholas died in a car accident in June this year.
Angela Bates was Vice President of the 'Soil Association' during Fritz Schumacher's presidency and can claim a lifetime of active involvement in the welfare of farm animals.
Lord Beaumont of Whitley sits in the 'House of Lords'. He is a trustee of 'The Fourth World Trust' and the agricultural spokesman in the Lords for the 'UK Green Party’.
Colin Bex is president of the ‘Wessex Regionalists’, campaigning for regional government with direct representation in Europe. He has founded several ad hoc environmental organisations, has published a broadsheet campaign newspaper (‘East Ender’) and is setting up the ‘Wessex Choral Society’.
Sir Richard Body is a 'Conservative Party' Member of the Westminster Parliament and one of the eurosceptics. For many years he wrote 'Private Eye's Muckraker' column to expose the evils of modern factory farming and the dangers of modern food production.
Jackie Carpenter is a chartered engineer, the organiser of ‘The Radical Consultation’, Clerk to 'Whiteshill & Ruscombe Parish Council' and Director of ‘Energy 21’, a charity which seeks to empower people by bringing them information about sustainable energy choices.
John Coleman has had a powerful influence on the direction of the alternative movement over four decades. He is the publisher and editor of 'The New European'.
Dr. Edward Echlin grew up on the shores of the Great Lakes in Michigan and now lives in Bexhill. He is Honorary Research Fellow in Theology at 'University College of Trinity & All Saints', Leeds and has written and lectured widely on local sustainability from a Christian perspective.
Peter Etherden is an economist, engineer and entrepreneur. In the early 80s he helped establish the 'Human Scale Institute' in Boston. He is a member of the 'Swedish Green Party' and stood as the Parliamentary Candidate for the 'Referendum Party' in Oldham in the 1997 Westminster elections.
Edward Goldsmith founded ‘The Ecologist’ magazine in 1969. He is a publisher, editor, author, lecturer and campaigner and was the subject of a Channel 4 TV film ‘Edward Goldsmith - Green Revolutionary’.
Zac Goldsmith has been the director and editor of 'The Ecologist' for four years. Before joining the Ecologist, he worked for a number of years with the ‘International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)’, based in California (USA), Bristol (UK) and Ladakh (India).
Tom Greco is a community economist, writer, consultant and educator. In North America he is regarded as one of the top experts on community economic development, monetary theory and local currencies and his books on these subjects have helped to guide this important movement.
Natalia Maddison is a mother of five young children. She is involved with her family's organic farming business and is working on books to encourage children to eat more healthily.
George McRobie worked closely with Fritz Schumacher for many years on the problems of energy and intermediate technology and is respected throughout the world as a leading expert on alternative technologies.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder of the 'International Society for Ecology & Culture', which promotes closer contact between farmers and consumers.
John Papworth is the founder of 'Resurgence' and 'Fourth World Review', which he has edited since 1981, and the author of 'New Politics' and 'Small is Powerful'. He was sent to jail during the antinuclear protest of the 1950’s and ordained an Anglican priest in Zambia in 1976. Recently he gained media notoriety as 'The Shop-Lifting Vicar'.
Anton Pinschoff is an Austro-Breton backwoodsman, prone to speechmaking at street markets. He breeds goats and traditions and is co-founder of the ‘Cliff’s Edge Signalling Company (CESC)’ dedicated to discovering coherent life policy for the nations.
Helen Prescott is based in the North West and is editor of ‘Creative Mind’, having edited its journal since 1978. She is a writer and researcher and lectures in philosophy, psychology and literature. She has been involved in many community-based direct action local projects.
Dr. Aidan Rankin, a Research Fellow in Government at the 'London School of Economics', has taken a leading role in developing the theoretical parameters for a 'League of Real Nations'. His book, ‘The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism’ is due to be published later this year.
Sir Julian Rose is an organic farmer and campaigner for sustainable solutions to the current crisis in the British countryside. He advises a number of authorities, both local and national, on new policy options for agriculture and rural economy.
Kirkpatrick Sale is one of the most influential American writers of our time on the radical scene and on the bioregional vision. His books include the monumental ‘Human Scale’ and ‘Rebels Against the Future’, the latter a gripping evaluation of the 'Luddite' struggle against the industrial revolution.
John Seymour was born in England in 1914 but now lives in Ireland. He has authored more than thirty books on people & places, food & farming, philosophy & economics, poetry & autobiography including 'The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency' and 'The Fat of The Land'.
Tracy Worcester is a net-worker and fundraiser for the environmental movement. She is an Associate Director of the ‘International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)’, a Trustee of ‘Friends of the Earth’ and the ‘Gaia Foundation’ and Patron of the ‘Soil Association’.
Chris Wright is the author of 'The Sufficient Community' and 'A Community Manifesto' (published by 'Earthscan' in February 2001). He co-founded a company in 1988 to support people with learning disabilities access their local communities.
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