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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.

by Mary Catherine Bateson

(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.

by Donella H. Meadows

(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.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

A Bug Story

It began, as so many things begin these days, with an email message.

by Alan Atkisson

(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."

by Natalie Jeremijenko

(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.

by Anna Portnoy

(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

A Letter About "Aloha," the Internal Paradise

Defining the word Aloha.

by Lanakila Brandt

(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.

by Carolyn Moran

(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?

by Elena Benedicto

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

All Species Inventory

A call for the discovery of all life-forms on Earth.

by Kevin Kelly

(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Art as Landscape/Landscape as Art

Art as Landscape/Landscape as Art

by Peter Warshall

(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.

by Stephen J. Pyne

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Banking on Natural Capital

Mapping paths to conservation-based banking

by John Haines

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Beyond Left and Right

Introduction

by Jay Kinney

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Book Brawl

Independent bookstores, the Internet, chain stores and discount houses duke it out.

by Patricia Holt

(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?

by Paul S. Martin

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Burning Libraries

Burning libraries is a profound form of murder, or if self-inflicted, suicide.

by Stewart Brand

(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.

by John Perlin

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

A Bestiary of Useful Fibers

A Bestiary of Useful Fibers

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

Crossed Signals

Synthetic chemicals and the coming health revolution.

by Michael Lerner

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

From Tuva to Tupelo

An American bluesman takes throatsinging home to Central Asia.

by Allison Levin

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

Hospitals That Poison

Hospitals That Poison

by Lexi Rome

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

Inventory of Synthetic Fibers

Inventory of Synthetic Fibers

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Ethics of Eating

The Ethics of Eating

by Alice Waters

(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

by David Brower

(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.

by Andrew Weil, MD

(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.

by Donella H. Meadows

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Microtonal Wave

Microtonal music results from a philosophical aesthetic of musical intervals.

by Johnny Rheinhard

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Multiverse

Not one but an inflating/deflating rhythmic diversity of many universes.

by Martin Rees

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1997 [ Buy this issue ] )

Buying Back Eden

Wildlands philanthropy.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Dark Comix

The single largest impediment to the acceptance of comics as an artform has been the word itself.

by Bob Callahan

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Democratic Foundations

The future's best way to transfer wealth?

by Mark Dowie

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Local Currency: In Each Other We Trust

Creating community economics with local currency.

by Paul Glover

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Organic Incorporated

Monocrops, labeling, biotechnology, and watershed activists challenge the pioneer farmer.

by Dan Imhoff

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Privilege of Printing Money

Global currency.

by Richard O'Brien

(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.

by Paul S. Mankiewicz

(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.

by Witold Rybczynski

(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.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Lock-In

An interview with Amory Lovins

by Peter Warshall

(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.

by Paul Ehrlich

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Long Wave

Or why Asian economies are collapsing and the Democrats are cutting welfare.

by Donella H. Meadows

(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?

by C.S. Holling

(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.

by Dalai Lama

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Defending the Global Commons

Having fun supporting the United Nations

by Hazel Henderson

(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.

by Jean Hocker

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Neptune's Manifesto

How a few good pirates can save the oceans

by Captain Paul Watson

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

The -stans of Central Asia

The Turanian Bioregion

by Eric Sievers

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Trust and Security

Can the commons exist without common decency and common sense?

by Mary Catherine Bateson

(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.

by Jaron Lanier

(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.

by Rick Fields

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Destruction

Do you remember the way a bear goes through a cabin when nobody is home?

by Joanne Kyger

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Energy Lessons Learned and To be Learned

Verities that will astonish some and delight the rest.

by Amory B. Lovins

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

GAIA

Another four-letter word.

by Lynn Margulis

(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.

by Jerry Mander

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Is Nature Real?

Nature as seen from Kitkitdizze is no social construction.

by Gary Snyder

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

KGB-ing America

Defending the independence of the judiciary.

by Tony Serra

(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.

by John Todd

(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.

by Wes Jackson

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

Outside the Yuppie Zoo

Modern people do not know what wilderness is.

by Vine Deloria, Jr.

(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.

by Dale Pendall

(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

by Peter Coyote

(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.

by Orville Schell

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Computational Metaphor

The least-noticed trends are usually the most subversive ones.

by Kevin Kelly

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Garden Project

An introduction from the 1998 Bioneers Conference.

by Catherine Sneed

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1998 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Long Now

We're building a 10,000-year clock and a 10,000-year library.

by Stewart Brand

(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

by J. Baldwin

(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.

by William H. Calvin

(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?

by Wendell Berry

(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?

by Stewart Brand

(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...

by Jay Kinney

(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.

by Adam Kahane

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Chicken Little, Cassandra, and the Real Wolf

So many ways to think about the future.

by Donella H. Meadows

(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.

by Sigmar Groeneveld

(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.

by Art Kleiner

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Eating Earth

Geophagy is universal.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Futurama Retro

An interview with John Clute, author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

by Peter Warshall

(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

by Global Scenarios Project Shell International

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Soybean of Happiness

A 3,000 year history of our most modern oilseed.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Elegant Densities

Mayor Jerry Brown on a sustainable Oakland

by Jerry Brown

(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.

by Michael Pyatok

(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.

by Blair Gibb

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

City Lights

An address by San Francisco's first Poet Laureate.

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Poor Monsanto

Corporate demonizing will not transform industrial agriculture, but less hubris and more openness to organic agriculture might help.

by Donella H. Meadows

(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.

by Bruce Sterling

(Whole Earth Review Summer 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Cancer As Metaphor

Metaphors of personality can victimize.

by Rick Fields

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Earth's Natural Internet

Healing the planet with mushrooms.

by Paul Stamets

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

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.

by Stephen J. Lyons

(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.

by Michael B. Ross

(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.

by Lynn Margulis

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Salman Rushdie on Bombay, Rock N' Roll, and The Satanic Verses

An Interview with Salman Rushdie from Bombay, India.

by Vijaya Nagarajan

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Body Politic

The metaphor of our nation as family.

by George Lakoff

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Virtual Community

Changing communications extend our minds, disrupt old forms of community, and create new ways to relate.

by Howard Rheingold

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Virtual Reality

A techno-metaphor with a life of its own.

by Jaron Lanier

(Whole Earth Review Fall 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

2025, If...

Predicting the future, if we make it that far.

by R. Buckminster Fuller

(CoEvolution Quarterly Spring 1975)

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.

by Kenneth E. Boulding

(CoEvolution Quarterly Spring 1975)

Challenge Day

Helping teenagers stay afloat and alive in the shark tank of high school.

by Ana Bolling

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Old Genies in New Bottles

How to prevent a Singularity from happening

by Bruce Sterling

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Technological Singularity

The 1993 Whole Earth Review article that first invoked the Singularity specter

by Vernor Vinge

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

What Happens When Technology Zooms Off the Chart?

Singularity and its meanings

by Alex Steffen

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Jump-Starting Renewables

What it takes to enter the Hydrogen Era.

by Tyrone Cashman

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Online Health After the Dot-Com Meltdown

What's Next?

by Joe Flower

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Highest Litter Brigade

The clean-up of Mt. Everest.

by David Bolling

(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.

by Reuben Margolin

(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.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Communication Prosthetics: Threat, or Menace?

Communication Prosthetics: Threat, or Menace?

by Neal Stephenson

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Foot-and-Mouth or Foot In Mouth?

Breakdown of the British Social Infrastructure

by Caroline Oakley

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Hybrid Vigor

The Hybrid Vigor Institute

by Denise Caruso

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Metrophagy

The art and science of digesting large cities.

by William Gibson

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Technology: The Bitch Goddess

Technological success is the bitch-goddess of the twenty-first century

by Joel Garreau

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The Paradox of Loss

If you have nothing, you'll have nothing to lose.

by Jasmina Tesanovic

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Viridians Invade Whole Earth, Seize Means of Information

The Viridian Design Movement

by Bruce Sterling

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Donella Meadows tribute by Peter Warshall

Remembering Donella Meadows

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Pete Seeger interviewed by David Kupfer

An interview with Pete Seeger.

by David Kupfer

(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.

by Seth Zuckerman

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Reintroducing the Lost

Once extinct, always extinct? Maybe not.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Resurrection Ecology

Bring back the Xerces Blue!

by Robert Michael Pyle

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

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.

by Michael K. Stone

(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

by Joel Makower

(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?

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2001 [ Buy this issue ] )

Changing the World

Five Ways You can Change the World

by Danny Hillis

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Really Useful Websites

Websites that Kevin Kelly Finds to be Useful

by Kevin Kelly

(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.

by Michael Krasner

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Tools Are the Revolution

The problems created by technology create opportunities for new tool making.

by Kevin Kelly

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True Films

Non-fictional films recommended by Kevin Kelly

by Kevin Kelly

(Whole Earth Review Winter 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Discovery

...or, find the 'suckers.'

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Fall 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Carlos Santana

An interview with Steve Heilig.

by Steve Heilig

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Escaping the Matrix

What if consensus reality is a fabricated illusion? Are you ready for the red pill?

by Richard K. Moore

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

Symposium introduction

by Jay Kinney

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

Progressives against progress!

by Charles Siegel

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Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

Left and right: an outworn framework.

by Joseph Stromberg

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Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

'Socialism is dead'...really?

by Mark Dowie

(Whole Earth Review Summer 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

How about that green option?

by Charlene Spretnak

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Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete?

Hay foot, straw foot

by Stephanie Mills

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To Save the Whooping Crane, You Need Two Wings

Down in the trenches of local politics, labels lose their meaning and odd bedfellows arise.

by Peter Warshall

(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.

by Rosemarie Ostler

(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.

by Joshua A. Fishman

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Grassroots Radio

Noncommercial and nonprofessional, local and global, shortwave, Internet, and low-power FM radio.

by Dorothy Kidd

(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....'

by Barry Lopez

(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....'

by Richard Littlebear

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Left-Handed Bears and Androgynous Cassowaries

Homosexual/transgendered animals and indigenous knowledge.

by Bruce Bagemihl

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Micro-Powered Radio

FM radio's Davids win a round against Goliath.

by Dorothy Kidd

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Migrant Mushroomers

Tales of adventure, nature love, and money on the globalocal mushroom trail.

by David Arora

(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.

by Paul Hawken

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Relinquishing the Mic

The only globalocal broadcast for women's rights has served the voiceless.

by Jeanne Carstensen

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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?

by Darryl Babe Wilson

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

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....

by Stephen J. Pyne

(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.

by David Arora

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The Living Water Garden

An American artist shepherds the first inner-city Chinese ecological park.

by Betsy Damon

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

The World Trade Organization

Fix it or nix it?

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

What is the point of trade?

by Anita Roddick

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

WTO, forests, and a postmodern move.

by Randy Hayes

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WTO Think-In

Down on the farm with the WTO.

by Mark Ritchie

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WTO Think-In

A good, serious confrontation.

by Peter Schwartz

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WTO Think-In

First steps toward reclaiming sovereignty and clear conscience.

by William Greider

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WTO Think-In

Blue gold and the WTO.

by Maude Barlow

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WTO Think-In

Globalizing food standards: the role of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

by Tim Lang

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

A very skeptical India.

by Anuradha Mittal

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

WTO's been asked to do too much.

by Richard O'Brien

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

Will all boats, or just yachts, rise with globalization's tide?

by Steve Barnett

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

Hold the champagne: globalization's not dead yet.

by Jerry Mander

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

A kind WTO.

by Donella H. Meadows

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

Beware! MAI clones in the WTO.

by Tony Clarke

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

WTO Think-In

WTO, bend or break.

by Lori Wallach

(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....

by Matt Vera

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2000 [ Buy this issue ] )

Cooking with Fire

A short history, with access to the best cookbooks.

by Daphne Derven

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Green Chemistry's Maven

An interview with EPA's Tracy Williamson.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Need-Fire

Kindling new fire; the basic rite of community renewal.

by Stephen J. Pyne

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Restorative Fire Is Local Fire

Restoring fire's creativity in the San Joaquin grasslands.

by Robert B. Hansen

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Fires of Life

Solar fire, cellular fire.

by Harold J. Morowitz

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

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.

by Stephen J. Pyne

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

The Wild Rice Moon

Globalocal markets and preserving the taste of manoomin.

by Winona LaDuke

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

To Burn or Not To Burn

Should we incinerate our garbage?

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Uma and Shiva, or The Origin of a Young God

The Hindu story of fire, desire, and bringing order to the world.

by Sadie Hadley

(Whole Earth Review Winter 1999 [ Buy this issue ] )

Vital Fire

Can we restore fire as a friend?

by Peter Warshall

(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.

by Author Anonymous

(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

by Michael K. Stone

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Carl Mitcham's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Carl Mitcham

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Peter Warshall's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Jerry Brown's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Jerry Brown

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Vijaya Nagarajan's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Vijaya Nagarajan

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Lee Swenson's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Lee Swenson

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

David Cayley's memories of Ivan Illich.

by David Cayley

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

Remembering Ivan Illich

Lee Hoinacki's memories of Ivan Illich.

by Lee Hoinacki

(Whole Earth Review Spring 2003 [ Buy this issue ] )

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

by Stewart Brand

(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."

by Stewart Brand

(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.

by Paul Hawken

(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.

by Peter Warshall

(Whole Earth Catalog Winter 1998)

 
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