(via Stephanie Smith…)
In 1968, Stewart Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog. Brand’s goals were to make a variety of tools accessible to newly dispersed counterculture communities, back-to-the-land households, and innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture, and to create a community meeting-place in print. The catalogue quickly developed into a wide-ranging reference for new living spaces, sustainable design, and experimental media and community practices. After only a few years of publication it exploded in popularity, becoming a formidable cultural phenomenon…
More more MORE!: MOMA.org
Highly recommend Andrew Kirk’s _Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism_ (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/kircou.html) to anyone wanting to learn more about the scene around the WEC and its legacy.