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Seventies DIY Pioneer Publishes Book on Tiny Homes

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Book Publishing, Shelter Publishing, Downsizing, Shelter Publications, Small House, Lloyd Kahn, We the Tiny House People, Small Space, Jay Shafer, Small Home, Small House Movement, San Francisco News, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Whole Earth Catalog, DIY Home Building, Simplicity, Documentary, Diy Home, Tiny Home, Stewart Brand, Video, Books News
Kirsten Dirksen

Lloyd Kahn's Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter is a nod to the current "grassroots movement to scale things back," and in it he profiles about 150 builders who have created homes under 500 square feet.

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Steve Jobs' Google of the 60s: Whole Earth Catalog Revisited (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Self Sufficiency, Book Publishing, Shelter Publishing, Owner Built House, Back to the Land, Backyard Garden, Domes, Homegrown Food, Lloyd Kahn, Hippies, Dome Building, Backyard Chickens, Grow Your Own, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog, DIY Home Building, Diy Home, Stewart Brand, California, Green News, Counterculture, Bolinas, Seventies, Sixties, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

In this video, Shelter editor Lloyd Kahn shows us a rare first issue of the Whole Earth Catalog, takes us for a tour of his homestead and gives us a sneak peek of his upcoming book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter.

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Literary Twitter: @DadBoner

Aaron Belz | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Literature, Twitter, Poetry, Stewart Brand, Culture, Grand Blanc, Michigan, Technology News
Aaron Belz

So, again, how permanent are digital media? Just about as permanent as we want their contents to be. Whole dynasties may be lost, as Shelley's "Ozymandius" illustrates, but @Dadboner is an example of a literary artifact worth preserving.

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Theatre of the Long Now -- World Theatre Day 2011

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: History, Art, Theatre, World Theatre Day, Stewart Brand, Performing Arts, Theater, The Long Now Foundation, Long Now, Playwrighting, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

What distinguishes Theatre most is its rebreathing. A movie is replayed, a TV show is re-watched, but a play is rebreathed with the simplest technology -- people.

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Does Nuclear Energy Make Sense?

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Earthquake, Jigar Shah, Amory Lovins, Stewart Brand, Nrc, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Electricity Grid, Jim Woolsey, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Carbon War Room, Green News
Andrew Winston

Between basic economics, security, national competitiveness (the push to a clean economy creates jobs), the logic for a distributed, non-nuclear, non-fossil-fuel grid and transportation network seems very strong.

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Stewart Brand: Nuclear Power Could Save The World

Inhabitat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Steward Brand Nuclear, Nuclear Benefits, Whole Earth Discipline, Pro-Nuclear, Stewart Brand, Green News

Stewart Brand is an author, environmentalist, and above all, best known for his work as the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog. [...] Recently, our ...

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PHOTOS: Is Nuclear Power The Solution To Our Energy Needs?

The Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Slidepollajax, Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy, Energy Debates, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy Debate, Erich Pica, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Debate, Nuclear Energy Pros and Cons, Nuclear Power Pros and Cons, Green Energy, Stewart Brand, Green News

To some, nuclear energy is a ticking bomb. To others, it represents the future of an energy-independent and carbon-free America. Is nuclear power a ...

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Electoral Reform: 1 Page 9 Points

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Legislation Online, Joe Trippi, Cabinet-Level Debates, Decision-Support, Reform, Governance Reform, Public Intelligence Blog, Open Registration, Open Ballot Access, Instant Runoff, Instant Run-Off, Electoral Reform, Phi Beta Iota, Prior Consultation, Absentee Voting, Open Access, Public Funding, Public Budget Office, Transpartisan Policy Institute, Holiday Voting, Two-Party Tyranny, Earth Intelligence Network, Expanded Debates, Early Voting, Open Honest Debates, League of Women Voters, Debates, Virtual Cabinet, Coalition Cabinet, Sanity, Civility, Public Intelligence, Robert David Steele, Michael Cudahy, Ralph Nader, Jock Gill, Christina Tobin, Jim Turner, Jon Lebkowsky, Susan Cannon, Mark Tovey, Sheri Herndon, Jim Rough, Peggy Holman, Mitch Ratcliff, Tom Atlee, Jon Ramer, Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold, Harrison Owen, Vaclav Havel, William Greider, Carol Dumaine, Howard Zinn, Rop Gonggrijp, Emanuel Goldstein, Glenn Tenney, Open Everything, Griftopia, Curtis Bonk, Matt Taibbi, Public, Politics News
Robert David Steele

Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact ...

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Announcing The HuffPost Spotlight Series On Energy

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Josh Fox, Energy Debates, Erich Pica, Stewart Brand, Energy Politics, Nuclear Energy, Steve Everley, Natural Gas, Gregory Kallenberg, David Roberts, Green News
Katherine Goldstein

I'm pleased to announce The Huffington Post Spotlight series on energy that will feature Vokle video debates with leading experts exploring tough questions of our time.

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WATCH: Stewart Brand And Erich Pica Debate Nuclear Power

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Energy, Energy Debates, Energy Debate Series, Erich Pica, Stewart Brand, Nuclear Power, Green News

UPDATE: Scroll down for highlights from the debate, edited by HuffPost's Ben Craw, with the full exchange available below that. Is nuclear power the ...

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Stewart Brand is Wrong About Nukes -- And Is Losing

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solar Power, Nuclear Renaisance, Stewart Brand, Nuclear Power, Solartopia, Wind Power, Atomic Energy, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Stewart Brand has become a poster boy for a "nuclear renaissance," but we have cheaper, safer, cleaner, more reliable and more job-producing green alternatives.

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Stewart Brand On Colbert (VIDEO): Is Nuclear Power Green 'Because That's The Color We'll Glow?'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Stewart Brand Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Stewart Brand, Nuclear Power, Ecopragmatism, Environmental Movement, Stewart Brand Colbert, Poll, Steward Brand Ecopragmatism, Colbert Report, Whole Earth Catalog, Green News

Stewart Brand has been around since right around the inception of the environmental movement. He's best known for the Whole Earth Catalog, published b...

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Russian Arms Reduction Could Mean More U.S. Nuclear Energy

Blaise Zerega | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Russia, fora.tv, Nuclear Weapons, Stewart Brand, Megatons to Megawatts, Nuclear Energy, Blaise Zerega, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Blaise Zerega

The news of the United States and Russia agreeing to slash their nuclear weapon stockpiles could mean a boost for a little known energy program. Calle...

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The Hidden Costs of Nuclear Power

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doe, Nuclear Power Plants, Waterford, Stewart Brand, Hidden Costs, Nuclear, Long Island, Price Anderson, Nuclear Power, Bill Richardson, Nukes, Entergy, Brookhaven, Green News
Alec Baldwin

Often when discussing the advent of a new era in nuclear power generation, advocates for nukes tread lightly over certain subjects, such as waste disposal and security issues.

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This Week In Art: Art for All, All for Art

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Jeffrey Deitch, Twitter, Moca, Bravo TV, Stewart Brand, Museums, James Cameron, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lady GaGa, Consumer Electronics Show, Facebook, James Franco, Avatar, Peter Jackson, Art Galleries, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Museums must adapt -- as MOCA's dire financial straits a year ago proved -- but at the same time must not forget their missions.

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What? Stewart Brand, Creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, Now Endorses Nuclear Power, Genetic Engineering and Big Cities!

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecology, Stewart Brand, Nuclear Power, Climate Control, Whole Earth Catalog, Green News
Jesse Kornbluth

Cities innovate faster as they grow bigger. They create enormous problems, but they also create solutions faster. Cities seem to know how to get out of their own way.

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Earth Days: Dare To Care

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Days, Ronald Reagan, Stewart Brand, Climate Change, Rachel Carson, Environmental Movement, Jimmy Carter, Conservation, Robert Stone, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.

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Earth Days Probes the Roots of Environmentalism

Robert Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Trade, Denis Hayes, Stewart Brand, Earth Day Movie, Earth Day, Climate Change, Earth Day Film, Rusty Schweickart, Hunter Lovins, Video, Green News
Robert Stone

Earth Days is framed around the personal narratives of nine Americans who awakened us to the environmental crisis and gave birth to a political movement to confront it.

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Ted@State: A Trip To The Nation's Capitol

Adriana Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Bagley, Jacqueline Novogratz, TED Talks, Stewart Brand, Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, Paul Collier, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dave Eggers, Chris Anderson, Jeff Skoll, Hans Rosling, Clay Shirky, TED@State, Government Reform, Politics News
Adriana Dunn

The U.S. political system is no longer inaccessible and shrouded in secrecy. The prime example of this new attitude was yesterday's TED@State talk.

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