Summary
According to the author, Brand initiated the Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) to present a critical forum and to supply environmental alternatives and simplified models of ecological ideas for those interested in self-sufficiency. The practical tools that she believed in were consumer education, nutrition, child protection, industrial safety, public health, career education, women's rights, and purity of air, food, and water - the roots of which sustained the countercultural phenomenon in subsequent years and decades.
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Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism
Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism Andrew G. Kirk (2007)
Reviewed by Jill Skinner CharbonneauIn this book, Kirk looks at the rise of pragmatic environmentalism which Stewart Brand, his counterculture cohorts, and o...See the full content of this document
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