Main entry:

Kirk, Andrew G., 1964-

Title & Author:

Counterculture green : the Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk.

Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2007.

Description:

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

CultureAmerica

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.
Introduction: one highly evolved tool box -- Environmental heresies -- Thing-makers, tool freaks, and prototypers -- Bailing wire hippies -- On point -- The final frontier -- Free minds, free markets -- Epilogue: What happened to appropriate technology?
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

For many, 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 (now known as "living off the grid"). In recovering the history of the Catalog's unique brand of environmentalism, historian Kirk recounts how Stewart Brand and the Point Foundation promoted a philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism that celebrated technological achievement, human ingenuity, and sustainable living. Kirk shows us that Whole Earth was more than a mere counterculture fad. At a time when many of these ideas were seen as heretical to a predominantly wilderness-based movement, it became a critical forum for environmental alternatives and a model for how complicated ecological ideas could be presented in a hopeful and even humorous way.--From publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780700615452 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0700615458 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780700618217
070061821X
9780700618211

Subject:

Brand, Stewart.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.)
Coevolution quarterly.
Whole earth catalog.
Environmentalism United States History 20th century.
Counterculture United States History 20th century.
Counterculture California San Francisco History 20th century.
Technology Environmental aspects United States.
Appropriate technology Catalogs History.
technology.
Contre-culture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Contre-culture Californie San Francisco Histoire 20e siècle.
Technologie Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Counterculture
Environmentalism
Technology Environmental aspects
Alternativbewegung
Technologie
Umwelt
California San Francisco
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Culture America.

Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267581
Call No.: BIB 199556
Status: Available