Feature Articles Sorted by Title
Many feature articles from our past issues of Whole Earth are now available online! To read an article, simply click the title.
Comparison is Key
New learning is a victory for the human spirit. So is empathy.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Dancing with Systems
This excerpt from the last book written by Donella Meadows discusses what to do when systems resist change.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Merino Sheep
Domesticated for 12,000 years, sheep wools, depending on the breed, either become apparels or carpets.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Bug Story
It began, as so many things begin these days, with an email message.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Future-Proofed Power Meter
One unfortunate vision of our technological future is the "innovation imperative," which strongly implies that our things and appliances must always get "smarter."
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Goddess in the Making
A very hard-to-find town in India builds a shrine to a goddess for AIDS.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Letter About "Aloha," the Internal Paradise
Defining the word Aloha.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Treefree Botanical of Plant Fibers
Bamboo is a grass. It is the second most widely used non-wood fiber on the planet (six percent of global plant fiber production), whose bio-attributes just about equal those of pine.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Whole Earth Forum of Compassionate Linguists
Concerned linguists take counsel: is ours a future of language fossils, or the preservation of many tongues?
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
All Species Inventory
A call for the discovery of all life-forms on Earth.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Art as Landscape/Landscape as Art
Art as Landscape/Landscape as Art
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Attention! All Keepers of the Flame
The imagery stubbornly remains: flame is a hostile force or, at best, an unrelenting nuisance that the world would be wise to discard.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Banking on Natural Capital
Mapping paths to conservation-based banking
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Book Brawl
Independent bookstores, the Internet, chain stores and discount houses duke it out.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Bring Back the Elephants
Early hunters killed off the mammoths. Should we bring back proboscideans and restore America to its Pleistocene richness?
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Burning Libraries
Burning libraries is a profound form of murder, or if self-inflicted, suicide.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Burning Mirrors
The ancient Chinese, Greeks, Incas, and Romans discovered that curved mirrors could concentrate the rays of the sun onto anything burnable with enough intensity to cause the object to burst into flames in seconds.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
A Bestiary of Useful Fibers
A Bestiary of Useful Fibers
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Crossed Signals
Synthetic chemicals and the coming health revolution.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
From Tuva to Tupelo
An American bluesman takes throatsinging home to Central Asia.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Inventory of Synthetic Fibers
Inventory of Synthetic Fibers
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Dalai Lama on: Earth - A Conservation District in the Universe
Meeting of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and David Brower, Founder and Chairman of Earth Island Institute
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Healing Medicine
Any level of biological organization that we examine, from DNA up to the most complex body systems, shows the capacity for self-diagnosis, for removal of damaged structure, and for regeneration of new structure.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Places to Intervene in a System
Leverage Points are places withing a complex system where a small shift in one thing can produce large changes in everything.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Microtonal Wave
Microtonal music results from a philosophical aesthetic of musical intervals.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Multiverse
Not one but an inflating/deflating rhythmic diversity of many universes.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )
Dark Comix
The single largest impediment to the acceptance of comics as an artform has been the word itself.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Democratic Foundations
The future's best way to transfer wealth?
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Local Currency: In Each Other We Trust
Creating community economics with local currency.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Organic Incorporated
Monocrops, labeling, biotechnology, and watershed activists challenge the pioneer farmer.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Can We Drink the Water We Live With?
New Yorkers struggle to let nature do the job.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Facades
When an organization commissions an architectural masterpiece for itself, it is almost always done at precisely the moment when that organization is on its last legs.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Gulf of Mexico Bioregion
Though often compared to the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico is a unique semi-enclosed sea.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Sapsuckers at Work
By hewing nest holes in aspens and tapping sap from willows, a keystone bird restructures a mountain landscape, composes its species list, and connects its community members.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Long Wave
Or why Asian economies are collapsing and the Democrats are cutting welfare.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Renewal, Growth, Birth, and Death of Ecological Communities
A promising new model questions old ideologies, brittle beliefs, and ecological ideals. Is it a guide to more mindful actions?
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Can a Nation Become a Commons of Nonviolence?
The Dalai Lama proposes that Tibet be transformed into a zone of Ahisma, a Hindu term used to mean a state of peace and nonviolence.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Defending the Global Commons
Having fun supporting the United Nations
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Good-Guy Real Estate
Jean Hocker, Land Trust Alliance president, counsels Whole Earth on land trusts as conservation-based commons.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Neptune's Manifesto
How a few good pirates can save the oceans
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Trust and Security
Can the commons exist without common decency and common sense?
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Virtual Commons
The Internet is the only commons that now enjoys support from the whole political spectrum, including the farthest right.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Code of the Warrior
The code of the Warrior has the basic qualities of courage, loyalty and willingness to sacrifice for the larger group, to be connected to something larger than simply the individual.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Destruction
Do you remember the way a bear goes through a cabin when nobody is home?
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Energy Lessons Learned and To be Learned
Verities that will astonish some and delight the rest.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Internet: The Illusions of Empowerment
Computers, the global information networks, and the information society empower them, not us.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Is Nature Real?
Nature as seen from Kitkitdizze is no social construction.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
KGB-ing America
Defending the independence of the judiciary.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Living Technologies for a Living Planet
The problem is simply how a species pleased to call itself Homo sapiens fits on a planet with a biosphere.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Natural Systems Agriculture
We now have a chance to seriously work toward solving the problem of agriculture.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Outside the Yuppie Zoo
Modern people do not know what wilderness is.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Plant Teachers and The Path of Eve
Plants were the first of Earth's creatures to establish extraterrestial contact.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
SF Zendog@politics.heart
Asking 'What would make a differance?' is like taking an ethical snapshot of my life
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Softening the Intractable: Tibet, China, and Ethical Pressure
The prospects for Tibet entirely depend on how things go in China.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Computational Metaphor
The least-noticed trends are usually the most subversive ones.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Garden Project
An introduction from the 1998 Bioneers Conference.
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The Long Now
We're building a 10,000-year clock and a 10,000-year library.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Ultimate Swiss Omni Knife
'We were put on this earth to make things.' --W.H. Auden
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
To Make Sure That Things Go On
The Red Queen told Alice that, in Wonderland, you had to run just in order to stay in the same place.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Visions for Rural Kentucky
In Kentucky we know that the important question is, 'Who has the vision?
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Vital Cities: an interview with Jane Jacobs
An an interview with Jane Jacobs, whose The Death and Life of Great American Cities changed urban planning and policy by simply asking: what makes a vital city?
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Whithering Politics?
I'd like to propose something radical: maybe, just maybe, most conservatives and liberals, leftists and rightists are...
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Changing The Winds
A leader at the South African post-apartheid and Columbia, South America scenario workshops describes his journey from corporate 'reactive' to empowering facilitator.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Chicken Little, Cassandra, and the Real Wolf
So many ways to think about the future.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Declaration on Soil
The ecological discourse on planet Earth, global hunger and threats to life urges us to look down at the soil, humbly.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Doing Scenarios
Scenarios are imaginative pictures of futures, but the picture is just a means to an end.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Futurama Retro
An interview with John Clute, author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Greedy Frogs, Balanced Humans, and Improvisational Music
The planetary scenarios of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Soybean of Happiness
A 3,000 year history of our most modern oilseed.
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Elegant Densities
Mayor Jerry Brown on a sustainable Oakland
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Elegant, Empathetic Affordable Housing
An interview with Michael Pyatok, America's master craftsman of community partnerships and architectural design.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Global Aspirations, Local Gospels
Most of the human-rights standards which now exist in international law derive from the world's major religions and philosophies.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
City Lights
An address by San Francisco's first Poet Laureate.
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Poor Monsanto
Corporate demonizing will not transform industrial agriculture, but less hubris and more openness to organic agriculture might help.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Viridian Manifesto of January 3,2000
Art movements have a problem, which is that moron critics name them. That's how you get stuck with a name like 'fauves.' We've already got a name. We're Viridian Greens.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Cancer As Metaphor
Metaphors of personality can victimize.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Earth's Natural Internet
Healing the planet with mushrooms.
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Enough with the Nature Already, Do You Know a Good Dentist?
Let's pay 'nature writers' not to write any more books for at least ten years.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
It's Time for Me to Die
A killer writes from death row. He wants to die, but psychiatrists say no.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Rock Not Always a Hard Place
Manufacturing minerals is a life process that has shaped the continents and our history.
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Salman Rushdie on Bombay, Rock N' Roll, and The Satanic Verses
An Interview with Salman Rushdie from Bombay, India.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Body Politic
The metaphor of our nation as family.
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Virtual Community
Changing communications extend our minds, disrupt old forms of community, and create new ways to relate.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Virtual Reality
A techno-metaphor with a life of its own.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Plains of Science, Summits of Passion
I happen to live in a marginal ecosystem, where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains and cactus blooms under the ponderosa pine. I have also lived most of my life on the uneasy margin between science and religion.
(CoEvolution Quarterly Spring 1975)
Challenge Day
Helping teenagers stay afloat and alive in the shark tank of high school.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )
Old Genies in New Bottles
How to prevent a Singularity from happening
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Technological Singularity
The 1993 Whole Earth Review article that first invoked the Singularity specter
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )
What Happens When Technology Zooms Off the Chart?
Singularity and its meanings
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )
Jump-Starting Renewables
What it takes to enter the Hydrogen Era.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Online Health After the Dot-Com Meltdown
What's Next?
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Highest Litter Brigade
The clean-up of Mt. Everest.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Table of Contents
In his vehicle--part VW Bug, part table--Reuben Margolin navigates a cross-country traveling commons.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Unholy Triumvirate
Starting on the day we dreamed up money, flows of energy and water became inseparable from flows of cash.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Communication Prosthetics: Threat, or Menace?
Communication Prosthetics: Threat, or Menace?
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Foot-and-Mouth or Foot In Mouth?
Breakdown of the British Social Infrastructure
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Metrophagy
The art and science of digesting large cities.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Technology: The Bitch Goddess
Technological success is the bitch-goddess of the twenty-first century
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Paradox of Loss
If you have nothing, you'll have nothing to lose.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Viridians Invade Whole Earth, Seize Means of Information
The Viridian Design Movement
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Donella Meadows tribute by Peter Warshall
Remembering Donella Meadows
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Pete Seeger interviewed by David Kupfer
An interview with Pete Seeger.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Nice Boulders, but Where's the Fish?
Why twenty years of salmon restoration efforts haven't brought us back to the era of plenty, at least not yet.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Reintroducing the Lost
Once extinct, always extinct? Maybe not.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Resurrection Ecology
Bring back the Xerces Blue!
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Solving for Pattern: The Straw Project
Fourth-graders' love of a shrimp has built a human web for changing education, ranching, government, philanthropy, and parenting.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
The New New Economy
A new economy is emerging that is based on providing clean energy, clean transportation, clean water, and other goods and services that embody the principles of industrial ecology, resource productivity, and natural capitalis
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Wilderness and the Hyperreal
Are all our future landscapes headed for the hyperreal? Does faking nature matter?
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )
Changing the World
Five Ways You can Change the World
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Really Useful Websites
Websites that Kevin Kelly Finds to be Useful
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Thinking With Her Hands
Maya Lin speaks of landscapes, history, and the practice of making mindful art.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Tools Are the Revolution
The problems created by technology create opportunities for new tool making.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
True Films
Non-fictional films recommended by Kevin Kelly
(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Escaping the Matrix
What if consensus reality is a fabricated illusion? Are you ready for the red pill?
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
Symposium introduction
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
Progressives against progress!
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
Left and right: an outworn framework.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
'Socialism is dead'...really?
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
How about that green option?
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?
Hay foot, straw foot
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
To Save the Whooping Crane, You Need Two Wings
Down in the trenches of local politics, labels lose their meaning and odd bedfellows arise.
(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Disappearing Languages
Of the 6,000 languages still on Earth, 90 percent could be gone by 2100.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
English: The Killer Language? Or a Passing Phase?
There are reasons to believe that the English language will eventually wane in influence.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Grassroots Radio
Noncommercial and nonprofessional, local and global, shortwave, Internet, and low-power FM radio.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Informed by Indifference
'In those moments above the cloudless sea, my body vibrating with the plane, I began to feel how remote Antarctica is....'
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Just Speak Your Language
'It is the spiritual relevance deeply embedded in our own languages that makes them relevant to us as American Indians today....'
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Left-Handed Bears and Androgynous Cassowaries
Homosexual/transgendered animals and indigenous knowledge.
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Micro-Powered Radio
FM radio's Davids win a round against Goliath.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Migrant Mushroomers
Tales of adventure, nature love, and money on the globalocal mushroom trail.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
N3O: Journal of the Uninvited
A streetwise report of happenings in Seattle on November 30,1999, when turtles, priests, farmers, scholars, diplomats, workers, scientists, fishermen, businesspeople, lawyers, and just plain citizens confronted the WTO.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Relinquishing the Mic
The only globalocal broadcast for women's rights has served the voiceless.
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Salila-ti Mi-mu d-enn-i-gu: I Wish You Would Come Home
Without spiritual language, how are we to hear the Great Power's requests?
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The Cryosphere
The Antarctic atmosphere consists of ice clouds and ice vapor; the hydrosphere is ice rivers and ice seas; the lithosphere, ice plateaus and ice mountains....
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Global Mushroom Trade
With the globalization of trade, mushrooms are being picked in more places than ever before.
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The Living Water Garden
An American artist shepherds the first inner-city Chinese ecological park.
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WTO Think-In
WTO, forests, and a postmodern move.
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WTO Think-In
First steps toward reclaiming sovereignty and clear conscience.
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WTO Think-In
Globalizing food standards: the role of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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WTO Think-In
Will all boats, or just yachts, rise with globalization's tide?
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WTO Think-In
Hold the champagne: globalization's not dead yet.
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Yowlumni: The Path to Revitalization
Everytime we use our language I feel that all of creation understands us and is rejuvenated....
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )
Cooking with Fire
A short history, with access to the best cookbooks.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
Green Chemistry's Maven
An interview with EPA's Tracy Williamson.
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Need-Fire
Kindling new fire; the basic rite of community renewal.
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Restorative Fire Is Local Fire
Restoring fire's creativity in the San Joaquin grasslands.
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The Long Burn
Seizing fire was our most daring, our most profound gamble. It made us the biospheric creature we are. It made the biosphere anew.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
The Wild Rice Moon
Globalocal markets and preserving the taste of manoomin.
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To Burn or Not To Burn
Should we incinerate our garbage?
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Uma and Shiva, or The Origin of a Young God
The Hindu story of fire, desire, and bringing order to the world.
(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )
EuroEnglish
The European Union comissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )
Remembering Ivan Illich
Reflections on a seminal cultural critic/intellectual gadfly, by Carl Mitcham, Peter Warshall, Jerry Brown, Vijaya Nagarajan, Lee Swenson, David Cayley, and Lee Hoinacki
(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )
Remembering Ivan Illich
Carl Mitcham's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
Peter Warshall's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
Jerry Brown's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
Vijaya Nagarajan's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
Lee Swenson's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
David Cayley's memories of Ivan Illich.
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Remembering Ivan Illich
Lee Hoinacki's memories of Ivan Illich.
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We're in a 1920's Economy, an Interview with Paul Hawken
In 1980 and 1981, you seemed to be more pessimistic than optimistic about the economy. On the one hand you predicted that we were going through a healthy economic change, on the other you warned of some type of deflationary crisis or credit collapse. In 1980 and 1981, you seemed to be more pessimistic than optimistic about the economy. On the one hand you predicted that we were going through a healthy economic change, on the other you warned of some type of deflationary crisis or credit collapse. Since then, the economy has
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1985 [ Buy this issue ] )
We are as Gods
As unexpected and ungrammatical as a clap of thunder on a sunny day was the opening line of that first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: "We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
(Whole Earth Catalog Winter 1998)
You are the Customer You are the Company
Two years ago, uncommon courtesy offered a two-day course called "Business as Service." Its premise was simple: All business is service regardless of whether it manufactures, produces, or distributes.
(Whole Earth Review Fall 1985 [ Buy this issue ] )
Anniversaries to Come
What was unique to the Catalog was how it fed a deep hunger in America - a hunger to know new stuff not taught in schools. The Catalog loaded up on interesting info and, contrary to the possessive attitudes of academia, offered to share as much information and knowledge as it could, and welcomed any person to send in more.
(Whole Earth Catalog Winter 1998)
