Taught basic infantry training and worked as photojournalist out of the Pentagon. Legend has it that this accelerated NASA's making good color photos of Earth from distant space during the Apollo program and that the ecology movement took shape in 1968-9 partially as a result of those photos. 1968-72, Founded, edited, and published the original Whole Earth Catalog . 1972, Received National Book Award for The Last Whole Earth Catalog , Random House. 1.5 million copies sold.
Point is the non-profit foundation which runs all the Whole Earth activities.
1974, Edited and published the Whole Earth Epilog , Penguin. 1974-85, Founded, edited, and published CoEvolution Quarterly . 1976, Edited Space Colonies and co-edited Soft Tech , Penguin. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. 1980-81, Edited and published The Next Whole Earth Catalog , Random House. A magazine I founded, Whole Earth Software Review , failed conspicuously.