Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Ne, (Paperback)

from hohlwelt

Nicely written, well researched, a vision of how to deal with climate change. His points are far beyond any ideologic paradigms with which he deals with practical examples and great scientific data. He shows that nuclear power was green, cities were green and biotech/nano was green as well, and h...

from VisibleGhost

Stewart Brand a mix of ecologist and futurist. He's not an environmentalist though he is often mistaken for one. He put out the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1985) which won a National Book Award in 1972. He also helped found The Clock of the Long Now Foundation, an effort to get humanity to ponder 1...

from lbeaumont

Many of us who grew up with the Whole Earth Catalog hold a special reverence for its founder and editor Steward Brand. Trained as an ecologist, this book is his Ecopragmatist Manifesto. He takes surprising positions on several issues long considered sacred to environmentalists. These well-researc...

from jasonli

"Whole Earth Discipline" outlines the past, present and future developments of the environmental movement. It specifically focuses on what technologies and practices need to be adopted in order for humanity to survive climate change and its next billion citizens. The book finds Brand at his fines...

from Janientrelac

I am unsure about doing reviews of a subject field in which i am only an interested amateur, but no one else has reviewed this book here. It is well written, easy enough for the educated laity and carefully reaserched. one of the major themes is the importance of research done without bias and he...