Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, and co-founder of Global Business Network has a new book, Whole Earth Discipline, which propels him into the middle of the global climate debate.
Calling himself an "eco-pragmatist," Brand tells the San Francisco Chronicle that he sees bad times ahead; his suggestions to avoid an all-out climate cataclysm include more nuclear power, and food growing in skyscrapers as well as on farms. He believes environmentalists must radically change their thinking.
Among other observations in the article, Brand says he worries that some climatologists aren't telling everything they know about the seriousness of our future. He also admits that some of his old ideas were wrong.
"There was some sense of urgency," Brand says. "This book (reflects) that I had veered far enough off from the environmental mainstream that I had something to say in that regard."
Read the interview in the Financial Times
Check out Stewart's NYT Op Ed
Read the article in the San Francisco Chronicle
Watch the TED Video: Stewart Brand Proclaims Four Environmental "Heresies"
Listen to Stewart Brand's ‘Ecopragmatism’ on National Public Radio
Listen to the GBN Whole Earth Discipline podcast
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand. New press: the FT.
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November 22, 2009
