Whole Pacific Catalog
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Pacific Area
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Pacific Area
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Author : Cadmus Book Shop
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
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Author : Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, Calif.)
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1881
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Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385236416
Taking its place beside the instant classic bestseller The Whole Earth Catalog, this new, practical, comprehensive and profusely illustrated guide will prove invaluable to all consumers looking for a quick, efficient route to the very best information. Over 1,000 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : California Commission for the Paris Exposition of 1878
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
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Author : Peter James Palmer Whitehead
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Anchovies
ISBN : 9789251026670
Author : Detroit International Fair and Exposition Association
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 1892
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
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Author : Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 070061821X
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 current views of Al Gore and others, the subtle environmental heresies of Whole Earth continue to resonate today, which makes Kirk's lucid and lively tale an extremely timely one as well.