Previous Contributors to The Great Debate
Sandy Irvine
Sandy Irvine is Chair of
Newcastle Green Party. Now retired, he
spent 35 years teaching in Further Education, latterly a sixth form centre therein.
His specialist subject was Film Studies but he also taught DTP, BTEC Media, and
General Studies as well as acting as a personal tutor.
He has a MSc. in Town & Country Planning awarded by from Newcastle University in 1990
which was obtained by private research thesis on reforesting the uplands.
Sandy has considerable experience of the media as a writer and magazine editor.
He was an associate editor of The Ecologist magazine for several years
and has appeared several times on both TV (BBC1, Tyne Tees & TV SouthWest) &
radio (R4 & Radio Newcastle).
He remains an active researcher and writer.
Sandy Irvine was on the panel of the "Too Many People?" debate at
The Great Debate: Facing the Future in
November 2011
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Publications
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Co-author of A Green Manifesto (Macdonald Optima,1988)
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Author of Beyond Green Consumerism (1989) the first of a series of public discussion papers
launched by Friends of the Earth. Reprinted in Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
(New Society Publishers, 1991)
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Author of a chapter entitled ‘An Overcrowded Continent’ in S. Parkin, ed.,
Green Light on Europe (Heretic Books, 1991).
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Founder and co-editor of Real World quarterly, first the magazine of
the Green Party, then an independent publication. It survived 19 issues, 1992 until 1997.
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Red Sails in the Sunset: an Ecopolitical Critique of the Socialist Inheritance.
ECO, (undated): pamphlet.
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Author of Towards A Greener Curriculum (University of Northumbria, 1984). Reprinted in volumes
produced by both the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh.
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‘Cornucopia Scam’ Contradictions of Sustainable Development’. Wild Earth,
published over 3 issues: Fall, 1994: 73-84; Winter, 1994/95: 72-82; & Spring, 1995: 76-80.
Shortened version also published in The Timberline, Winter 1996: 5-8.
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‘The Great Denial: Puncturing Pro-Natalist Myths’ in Butler, T., ed. (2002). Wild Earth:
Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Milkweed Press.
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Author of several entries in Encyclopaedia of Environmental History (Routledge, 2004).
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‘Humanism versus the Earth’, North East Humanist, 61, Winter 2005/6: 1-2
14:28 28/10/2011
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'The Prophet Misarmed: Trotsky, Ecology & Sustainability' What Next? (vol. 31, 2007).
Plus, in following issue , a detailed response to comments by Ian Birchall.
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