CoEvolution Quarterly (later re-named Whole Earth Review) was one of the publishing ventures of the same visionary biologist (with interests in cultures and in art) who launched the Whole Earth Catalog and an early Internet community, still functioning, called the WELL. Stewart Brand is the name of this editor and writer. Whole Earth Review is the former name of a magazine once known as CoEvolution Quarterly and now known as Whole Earth. ... The Whole Earth Catalog was a sizeable catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. ... For the Scottish football team, see Motherwell F.C. The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (or The WELL) is one of the oldest virtual communities still online. ... Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. ...

Brand chose the term co-evolution, important in biology, as the title for his journal, which grew from the Whole Earth Catalog project. Brand and his staff and contributors adhered to the idea that co-evolution can and should occur in the spheres of ideas, human social life, and the development and use of technology. Bumblebees and the flowers they pollinate co-evolve so that the flower is dependent on the bee and the bee is dependent on the flower for survival In Biology, Co-evolution is the mutual evolutionary influence between two species that become dependent on each other. ...

Issues of the Catalog - concerned with "access to tools" - were put together by Brand, his wife, friends and associates. They were published regularly until 1972, and sporadically until 1998. The Catalog embraced many sorts of things as useful "tools": books, maps, garden and carpentry tools, specialized clothing, forestry gear, tents, welding equipment, professional journals, early synthesizers and personal computers. Brand invited "reviews" of the best of these items from experts in specific fields. The articles also told where the reviewed items could be located or bought. The Catalog's publication coincided with the great wave of experimentalism, convention-breaking, and "do it yourself" attitude associated with the "counterculture." See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. ...

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A 1972 edition of the Catalog sold 1.5 million copies, winning a U.S. National Book Award, and its influence was widespread, especially perhaps in promoting appropriate technology. To publish full-length articles on specific topics in natural sciences, invention, social evolution, arts, etc., Stewart Brand founded the CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974, aimed primarily at the educated layperson. The industrial designer and educator J. Baldwin served as the technology editor. The Catalog's sort of tool and book reviews were still there in abundance, and ecological and technology topics were interspersed with articles treating social and community subjects. CoEvolution Quarterly cover. ... CoEvolution Quarterly cover. ... The National Book Awards is the most important literary prize in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and is presently awarded in each of four... Appropriate technology in a most basic sense means suitable technology. ... James Tennant Baldwin (whose books and articles have been published under the names J. Baldwin, Jay Baldwin, and James T. Baldwin) is an American industrial designer and writer born in 1934. ...

Content wandered through many byways of modern life, various arcane subjects (e.g., island biogeography), and at times explored futuristic scenarios. Stewart Brand, J. Baldwin, and other early editors usually sought to ground the more unusual and speculative feature articles in good science - in natural science, social science, engineering principles, etc. Notably, the journal espoused some sensible and sage avenues of thought, such as architect Christopher Alexander's approach to building and planning. Clearly, there was a strong editorial interest in small, creative private enterprise. The magazine was a lively multi-disciplinary meetingplace that didn't smack at all of academia. The study of island biogeography is a field within biogeography that attempts to establish and explain the factors that affect the species diversity of a particular community. ... A professor-emeritus (the University of California, Berkeley) and licensed contractor as well as architect, Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is noted for his design of building complexes in California, Japan, and Mexico. ... Capitalism generally refers to a combination of economic practices that became institutionalized in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, especially involving the right of individuals and groups of individuals acting as legal persons (or corporations) to buy and sell capital goods such as land, labor, and money (see finance...

Besides giving space to unknown writers with something valuable to say, Brand presented articles by many highly respected authors and thinkers, including Lewis Mumford, Karl Hess, Christopher Swan, Orville Schell, Ivan Illich, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gregory Bateson, Amory Lovins, Howard Odum, Steve Baer, Hazel Henderson, Gary Snyder, Lynn Margulis, Peter Calthorpe, Sim Van der Ryn, Paul Hawken, John Todd, Kevin Kelly (future editor of Wired magazine), Witold Rybczynski, Robert Gilman, Malcolm Margolin, Donella Meadows, and Daniel Imhoff. Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science, also noted for his study of cities. ... Karl Hess (May 25, 1923-April 22, 1994), called the most beloved libertarian, was a veteran of World War II, a libertarian thinker, ultimately a foe of the military-industrial complex, and a planner and applied-technologist. ... Chritsopher C. Swan is an articulate and technically sophisticated American advocate for the futher development and future of photovoltaic solar energy systems and for light rail (rail transport) systems. ... Orville Hickock Schell III (born May 20, 1940) is the Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and author of numerous works on the history of China. ... Ivan Illich Ivan Illich (Vienna, September 4, 1926 - Bremen, December 2, 2002), polymath, polemicist. ... Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904–4 July 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. ... Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) is an American physicist, co-CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. ... Howard Thomas Odum (1924-2002) was the son of the noted sociologist Howard W. Odum, and brother of the seminal American ecologist, educator, and author Eugene Pleasants Odum. ... Steve Baer (1938- ) is an American inventor and solar and residential designer. ... Known as a Futurist and a Evolutionary Encomiast Hazel Henderson the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization and Planetary Citizenship (the later with Daisaku Ikeda). ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation); and an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist who is frequently described as the laureate of Deep Ecology — roles reflecting his studies of both Buddhist... Lynn Margulis (born 1938) is a biologist and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ... Peter Calthorpe has been named one of twenty five innovators on the cutting edge by Newsweek magazine for his work redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America. ... Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in sustainable architecture. ... I dont like that damn Paulie Hawken. ... Dr. John Todd (1939- ) is an important biologist working in the field of ecological design. ... Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. ... Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian architect, professor and writer. ... Robert Gilman, Ph. ... Malcolm Margolin is an independent publisher (founder owner of Heyday Books) and an author with a special interest in memoirs and diaries, the Native-American ethnic groups of California, and the geographical territory which is the state of California. ... Donella Dana Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. ...

Brand invited reviews of books and "tools" from experts in specific fields, to be approached as though they were writing a letter to a friend. In this, he adopted a technique which editor Byron Dobell had suggested to Tom Wolfe, early in the latter’s career, a method which had started a whole literary genre called “the new journalism” known for its intimacy and impact. Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1931) is an American author and journalist. ... New Journalism was the name given to a style of news writing and journalism by Tom Wolfe who, when having trouble writing an assignment, sent his editor an unstructured narrative letter rather than the tight piece usually expected of a journalist of that time. ...

The Quarterly was one of the journals born in the 1970s that, in effect, bridged the gap of what has been called the two cultures (science and the humanities). This was an inheritence from the Catalog, which had, for instance, run a review of Gerald Heard's work. The Two Cultures is the title of an influential 1959 lecture by British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow. ... Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. ...

In 1985 CoEvolution's name was changed to Whole Earth Review. This was around the time that the journal's pages began give much emphasis to the "personal-computer revolution" and to useful software - reflecting the rapid evolution of Silicon Valley, etc. Later the journal's title was again modified to simply Whole Earth. Publication has ceased (at least for the time being), but this unique journal was for a long period in touch with the concerns of the sustainability movement and also the forefront of technological innovation (being an early vehicle for articles about personal computers, speculation about the possibilities of space colonization, and molecular nanotechnology). Stewart Brand also founded the Point Foundation and is now active in the Global Business Network. The Global Business Network is a consultancy firm that advises businesses on possible future scenarios. ...