return to top page Radical Consultation - Who's Who Nicholas Albery helped found the 'Fourth World Trust' and helped organise the first 'Fourth World Assembly' in 1981. He 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. He is the editor of 'The Book of Inspirations ­ A Directory of Social Innovations', the 'New Natural Death Handbook' and the 'Poem for the Day' anthology. Nicholas died tragically in a car accident on Sunday 3rd June 2001.
Angela Bates was Vice President of the 'Soil Association' during Fritz Schumacher's presidency. She ran an animal feed supplement company, serving both conventional and organic livestock farmers but giving free advice on livestock nutrition and diet formulation to organic farmers for many years before the 'official' organic certification scheme was set up. Her company was the first feed firm to be registered as a supplier to organic farmers. She was one of the original directors of the 'Organic Farmers and Growers', when it was set up by the 'Soil Association' to encourage co-operation between practical organic farmers and has continued to be involved ever since. She is now a director especially concerned in its organic certification work. She served for some years on the 'Ministry of Agriculture Farm Animal Welfare Council' and on the Dean of Westminster's working party which produced a report 'Animals and Ethics'. She has served for many years on the 'Council of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust' for which she manages a major wildlife reserve.
Lord Beaumont of Whitley (Tim Beaumont) is ex-president of the 'Liberal Party' and presently agricultural spokesman for the 'Green Party' in the House of Lords. He is a clergyman of the 'Church of England' and has had long-standing interest in green and Christian politics.
Colin Bex is president of the 'Wessex Regionalists', the only political party offering local self-management to the smallest parish free from diktat form London and through regional government, with direct representation in Europe. An architect and self-taught planner in general practice, Colin has spent much of his time campaigning 'pro bono publico' against damaging plans and offensive development. He has founded and co-founded several ad hoc campaigning organisations including the 'Broadway Alliance' (established to oppose redevelopment in favour of public open space) and the alliance against an M11 link motorway for which he published 'East Ender', a newspaper inspired by the mammoth battle over six years. He has joined other campaigns also including 'Stop the Archway Motorway Plan (STAMP)', the 'Holloway Society' and 'People Against the River Crossing (PARK)' who, with others, succeeded in preventing both plans. Also he has founded two choirs, which he has co-ordinated and is in the process of founding the 'Wessex Society Chamber Choir' and the 'Wessex Choral Society'.
Sir Richard Body is editor of 'World Review', an electronic magazine with over 50,000 subscribers, which publicizes books on environmental and kindred subjects. He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate at the age of 21 and subsequently as a Member of Parliament for three separate constituencies for a total of 40 years. He has written many books. He is patron, president, chairman or trustee of over 40 charities and other bodies, and was chairman of the only official enquiry which has taken place in the world on the effect pesticides have on human health, which took evidence from many witnesses on both sides of the Atlantic. He was knighted for his public service in 1986.
Jackie Carpenter is a chartered engineer and previously a project manager and the most senior woman engineer in 'Brown and Root', one of the largest engineering companies in the UK. During that career she travelled on business, especially to Russia. She raised two daughters and grew her own organic vegetables at the same time. She was a member of the Councils of the 'Hampshire Wildlife Trust' and of the 'Women's Engineering Society' for many years and is now on the 'Renewable Power Committee' of the 'Institution of Mechanical Engineers'. She now lives in Stroud in Gloucestershire and currently divides her time between her duties as Clerk to 'Whiteshill & Ruscombe Parish Council' and her responsibilities as Director of 'Energy 21', the UK branch of 'Eurosolar', an educational charity which she helped to found. She organised the publication of 'Sustainable Projects in Gloucestershire' in 1999 and is currently working on a number of projects including a 'Renewable Energy Fair' in Stroud in July 2001 'Global Changes, Local Choices' and the organisation of 'The Radical Consultation'. She seeks to empower people by bringing them information about renewable and sustainable energy choices, particularly at the local level, as well as inspiring them with a vision of a better world after the end of the fossil fuel era.
John Coleman has had a powerful influence on the direction of the alternative movement over four decades. He is publisher and editor of 'The New European'.
Dr. Edward Echlin is Honorary Research Fellow in Theology at 'University College of Trinity & All Saints', Leeds and a regular contributor to 'Fourth World Review', where his most recent article was 'Saving Precious Seeds'. He grew up on the shores of the Great Lakes in Michigan. He has written and lectured widely on local sustainability from a Christian perspective. He now writes and lectures, campaigns and gardens at Bexhill, East Sussex. He is the author of 'Earth Spirituality: Jesus at the Centre'.
Peter Etherden is an economist, engineer and entrepreneur. He is a member of the 'Swedish Green Party'. In the early 80s he helped establish the 'Human Scale Institute' at 'Wheelock College' in Boston with a summer school for nursery and primary school teachers at 'Solviva Gardens' on Martha's Vineyard. In the 1990s he co-founded 'CESC', a Brittany-based think tank, working to bring together the various European alternative traditions on work and money. He is a patron and regular contributor to 'Fourth World Review' and the author of 'The Rise & Fall of The Swedish Green Party (1982-1997)' published in 1989 under the pen name of William Shepherd. He stood as the Parliamentary Candidate for the 'Referendum Party' in Oldham in the 1997 Westminster elections.
Edward Goldsmith was born in Paris and has dual British and French nationality. He is a publisher, editor, author, lecturer and campaigner and founded 'The Ecologist' magazine in 1969. He is the author of a large number of articles in journals and magazines in different countries. His books include: 'Can Britain Survive?' (1971 editor); 'A Blueprint for Survival' (1972 co-author); 'The Stable Society' (1978 author); 'The Earth Report' (1988 co-editor); 'The Great U-Turn' (1988 author); 'Gaia and Evolution' (1990 co-editor); '5000 Days to Save the Planet' (1990 co-author); 'The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards the Local' (1996 co-editor with Jerry Mander). Edward has taught courses on ecology and related subjects at 'Michigan University' (1975), at 'University of Illinois', Springfield, Illinois (1984), and set up a 'Global Ecology Course' with the 'International Honors Program', associated with 'Bard College', with which he has been working since 1990. He is President of 'Ecoropa', France, member of the board of the 'JMG Foundation', Principal Environmental Consultant to the 'Ecological Foundation', Member of the 'Council of The Rainforest Foundation' and Trustee of the 'Foundation for Gaia'. Edward has received the following awards: 'Honorary Right Livelihood Award' (known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize') (1991 Stockholm); 'Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur', (1991); 'Best Book of the Year Award' for 'Ecological and Transformational Politics' from the 'American Political Science Association', with Jerry Mander as co-editor for 'The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards the Local', (1997). Edward was the subject of a Channel 4 TV film 'Edward Goldsmith - Green Revolutionary'.
Zac Goldsmith has been the director and editor of 'The Ecologist' magazine 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), running for some of that time a tourist education programme in Ladakh. He remains an associate director of 'ISEC'. He has participated in numerous television and radio programmes and his writings have been published in newspapers and journals throughout the world.
Tom Greco is a community economist, writer, consultant and educator. He is the founder and Director of the 'Community Information Resource Center (CIRC)', based in Tucson, Arizona. 'CIRC' provides guidance to communities seeking to develop sustainable economic and social structures. In North America he is regarded as one of the top experts on community economic development, monetary theory and local currencies. He is a patron and contributor to 'Fourth World Review' and has written for a wide range of other journals including 'The Whole Earth Review', 'Green Revolution', 'The Catholic Worker', 'The Permaculture Activist' and 'Perspectives'. He is the author of several books including 'New Money for Healthy Communities' and 'Money & Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis'. His latest book on complementary currencies and exchange systems will be published by 'Chelsea Green' later this year. He was the organiser of the 'Fourth World Assembly' and 'New Economics Symposium' held in San Francisco in 1987.
Natalia Maddison is a mother of five young children and is at the heart of the organic movement. She is currently working on a number of books aimed at encouraging children to eat more healthily and parents to become more resourceful, based on her own experiences bringing up a young family and sourcing from local growers and suppliers. She also works with her family's organic farming business at Purton House in Wiltshire providing eggs, vegetables and fruit via the popular box scheme to local customers. When not selling at the local farmers' markets, she uses up the spare organic vegetable by making them into enterprising vegetarian meals for sale in local health shops.
George McRobie was founder of the 'Intermediate Technology Group' with E F Schumacher and co-founder of the 'New Economics Foundation (NEF)'. He is on the governing bodies of the 'Soil Association', 'NEF', the 'India Development Group' and the 'Technology Exchange'.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures around the world. A linguist by training, she was educated in Sweden, Germany, England and the United States, and speaks seven languages. She has lectured and taught extensively around the world-from the 'Smithsonian Institution' to 'Harvard' and 'Oxford' universities. She is founder and director of the 'International Society for Ecology and Culture' (ISEC), which runs programs on four continents aimed at strengthening ecological diversity and community, with a particular emphasis on local food and farming. She also directs the 'Ladakh Project', renowned for its groundbreaking work in sustainable development on the Tibetan plateau. She is the author of numerous works, including the inspirational classic, 'Ancient Futures', which, together with an award-winning film of the same title, has been translated into more than thirty languages by grassroots groups worldwide. She is co-founder of the 'International Forum on Globalisation and the Global Eco-village Network', and a recipient of the 'Right Livelihood Award', or 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.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 a member of the 'Committee of 100' in the anti-nuclear protests of the 1950s, for which he was jailed. He has stood for the Westminster Parliament as both a 'Labour Party' and a 'Green Party' candidate. He was ordained an Anglican priest in Zambia in 1976 while serving as Personal Adviser to Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia. Recently he gained media notoriety as 'The Shop-Lifting Vicar'.
Anton Pinschoff was born an Austrian exile and educated in Britain. In the late 1960's he dropped out of architecture, went to jail in support of Vietnam, worked in agitprop theatre, did a farming apprenticeship, went to Mexico and America, was a the last Isle of Wight and the first Glastonbury festivals, and entered the realm of the 'Fourth World', whose journal at that time was 'Resurgence'. He spent the mid-1970's in Switzerland, Austria and France, acting as secretary-general of the embryonic 'International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement' (IFOAM). He became a backwoodsman in Brittany (Little Britain) for a quarter of a century and a smallholder with a precarious pitch at the weekly street-market. He worked on the first three 'Fourth World' assemblies and in the mid-1990's co-founded the 'Cliff-Edge Signalling Company' (CESC) aiming at integrating Gesellist land and monetary reform principles across linguistic chasms into coherent infrastructure with various other undercurrents resisting progress towards the void, and trying to disinvent capitalism.
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 supported 'Fourth World Review' since its inception. After launching her own organisation in Liverpool, she has been involved in many community-based direct action local projects.
Dr. Aidan Rankin is a Research Fellow in Government at the 'London School of Economics' who has taken a leading role in developing the theoretical parameters for a 'League of Real Nations'. His first major article on the subject was published in the August 2000 issue of 'Fourth World Review'. He has written numerous articles including 'Why Greens Should be Politically Incorrect' published in the June 2000 issue of 'The Ecologist'. Aidan is deputy editor of 'New European' magazine. His book, 'The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism' is to be published later this year.
Sir Julian Rose is the owner and manager of Hardwick Estate, in South Oxfordshire, a diversified 850-acres estate incorporating organic farming and retailing as well as sustainable timber production and processing. He is also a Council member of the 'Soil Association' and chairman of their 'Food Standards Board'. He commenced the conversion of his farm in 1975. Having been an active farmer, Julian has now developed at Hardwick a system of integrated, autonomous units based on share farm and rental agreements. As co-founder of the 'Association of Unpasteurised Milk Producers and Consumers', Julian is involved in the ongoing campaign to 'Save Real Milk', and now chairs an alliance of European groups to resist the treat of over-regulation form Brussels to traditional raw milk products. He has also recently been appointed a co-director of the 'International Coalition of the Protection of the Polish Countryside'. Nearer to home, he sits on the 'Rural Development Committee of the South East England Development Agency' and chairs the 'Rural Committee for Oxfordshire'. He is a regular contributor to BBC radio's 'The Food Programme' and has broadcast and written widely on holistic solutions to the crisis in the countryside. He contributes to 'Fourth World Review', where his most recent article was 'Genetic Food and Democracy'. His advice has been sought by the British Government's 'Number 10 Policy Unit', HRH the Prince of Wales and a number of local authorities.
Kirkpatrick Sale is one of the most influential writers of our time on the radical scene. 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, having its own lessons for the computer age. Not the least of his writings is 'Dwellers in the Land', a major work on the bioregional vision. Besides being a founder and board member of the American 'E. F. Schumacher Society', he is an Honorary Fellow of the (London) 'Academic Inn' and a contributory editor of the 'Nation'.
John Seymour was born in England in 1914 but for the past two decades has lived in Co. Wexford in Ireland. He is known among English and German speakers as the author of 'The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency' and 'The Fat of The Land'. He has authored more than thirty books on people & places, food & farming, philosophy & economics, poetry & autobiography. In his recent books such as 'Changing Lifestyles' and the novel, 'Retrieved from the Future', he combines all of the above. John is a trustee of 'The Fourth World Trust' and a patron and regular contributor to 'Fourth World Review' and 'Resurgence'.
Tracy Worcester, the Marchioness of 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'. She is often asked to speak about her ideas for shifting from global dependence to local interdependence.
Chris Wright is the author of 'The Sufficient Community' and 'A Community Manifesto' (published by 'Earthscan' in February 2001). The company he co-founded in 1988 to support people with learning disabilities access their local communities has reached a size where human scale is no longer possible. A confederal structure is currently being worked towards with ownership and control passing to member units. He is a keen supporter of 'Local Exchange Trading Systems' (LETS), having started a very local, community-based scheme in Manchester.
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