Whole Earth Movement

Access to Tools, from the Hippy Movement 68-97

http://wholeearth.com/

http://twitter.com/wholeearth/

 "Luring an audience that sought self-sufficiency, it quickly became a counterculture must-read. Though often associated with hippies, the Whole Earth crowd might be more aptly characterized as geeks. Reverential of science and suspicious of dogma, Brand helped forge a modern green ethos, centered on alternative technologies and smart design." (From the Boston Globe's review of it)

Article Categories

• Understanding Whole Systems
• Shelter and Land Use
• Industry and Craft
• Communications
• Community
• Nomadics
• Learning

& From a little browsing:

1. "Looking at how other people have changed the world I concluded there are five ways of doing it:"

� Some people change the world by imposing their will on it.

� Some people change the world by discovering a truth.

� Some people change the world by changing people's minds.

� Some people change the world by creating things of great beauty.

� Some people change the world by making new tools for change.

Wikipedia on the original Whole Earth (why did they stop making it??): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

I think this is the most useful site of theirs, for intellectual spelunking: http://www.wholeearth.com/resources.php