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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - Stewart Brand in conversation with Nils GilmanPost an Event »

Mechanics’ Institute

February 23 - February 23, 2010

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57 Post Street San Francisco, CA
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"Greens are no longer strictly the defenders of the natural systems against the incursions of civilization; now they’re the defenders of civilization as well.” Stewart Brand, visionary creator of the groundbreaking publication, Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Global Business Network, grapples with the realities of accelerating climate change. In his new book, he “demands a fundamental and at times surprising shift in the “green” perspective. Urging a more pragmatic approach to ecology, Brand offers the following summary: “Ecological balance is too important for sentiment. It requires science.The health of natural infrastructure is too compromised for passivity. It requires engineering. What we call natural and what we call human are inseparable. We live one life.” Stewart Brand’s legendary Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1985) won the National Book Award in 1972. His previous books include The Media Lab, How Buildings Learn and The Clock of the Long Now. He is president and co-founder of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network. He lives with his wife Ryan Phelan, on a tugboat near San Francisco. Nils Gilman is a consultant with Monitor 360, with a focus on national economic development and security. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America and the forthcoming Deviant Globalization.