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050 00 $aGE197$b.K58 2007
082 00 $a333.720973/0904$222
100 1 $aKirk, Andrew G.,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95080232
245 10 $aCounterculture green :$bthe Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism /$cAndrew G. Kirk.
246 30 $aWhole earth catalog and American environmentalism
260 $aLawrence, Kan. :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiii, 303 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCulture America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-291) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: One Highly Evolved Tool Box -- $g1.$tEnvironmental Heresies -- $g2.$tThing-Makers, Tool Freaks, and Prototypers -- $g3.$tBaling Wire Hippies -- $g4.$tOn Point -- $g5.$tThe Final Frontier -- $g6.$tFree Minds, Free Markets -- $tEpilogue: What Happened to Appropriate Technology?
520 1 $a"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, cultural, material, environmental, and technological history of that philosophy's incarnation in the Catalog, Kirk reveals the driving forces behind it, tells the story of the appropriate technology movement it espoused, and assesses its fate." "This book takes a fresh look at the many individuals and organizations who worked in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to construct this philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism. At a time when many of these ideas were seen as heretical to a predominantly wilderness-based movement, Whole Earth 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. It also enabled later environmental advocates like Al Gore to explain our current "inconvenient truth," and the actions of Brand's Point Foundation demonstrated that the epistemology of Whole Earth could be put into action in meaningful ways that might foster an environmental optimism distinctly different from the jeremiads that became the stock in trade of American environmentalism." "Kirk shows us that Whole Earth was more than a mere counterculture fad. In an era of political protest, it suggested that staying home and modifying your toilet or installing a solar collector could make a more significant contribution than taking to the streets to shout down establishment misdeeds. Given its visible legacy in the views of Al Gore and others, the subtle environmental heresies of Whole Earth continue to resonate today."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009103412
650 0 $aCounterculture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009122128
650 0 $aCounterculture$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTechnology$xEnvironmental aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAppropriate technology$xCatalogs$xHistory.
600 10 $aBrand, Stewart.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80066741
630 00 $aWhole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88515513
630 00 $aCoevolution quarterly.
830 0 $aCulture America.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98088766
852 00 $bleh$hGE197$i.K58 2007