Counterculture Green The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism

Name: Counterculture Green The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism
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ISBN: 9780700615452

ISBN-10: 0700615458

ISBN-13: 9780700615452

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew G. Kirk, Harold R. Winton

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For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. The Whole Earth Catalog billed itself as "Access to Tools," and it grew from a Bay Area blip to a national phenomenon catering to hippies, do-it-yourselfers, and anyone interested in self-sufficiency independent of mainstream America. In recovering the history of the Catalog's unique brand of environmentalism, Andrew Kirk recounts how San Francisco's Stewart Brand and his counterculture cohorts in the Point Foundation promoted a philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism that celebrated technological achievement, human ingenuity, and sustainable living. By piecing together the social,…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 11/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.49" wide x 9.18" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: One Highly Evolved Tool Box



Environmental Heresies



Thing-Makers, Tool Freaks, and Prototypers



Baling Wire Hippies



On Point



The Final Frontier



Free Minds, Free Markets


Epilogue: What Happened to Appropriate Technology?


Notes


Bibliography


Index