Talk:Stewart Brand

message: i don't want to lose pieces of information.  general ideas are summarized (or have to be ) and I move here the complete text from the books of Brand: 
Urbanization: Traditionally, cities have been seen by Environmentalists as a major source of pollution, and dangerous in its lack of harmony with nature. However, there are some who believe that the Environmentalist movement should embrace the vertical orientation of population, and have shifted criticism towards suburban sprawl.
Nuclear Power: Among its harshest critics, nuclear power has long been associated with extremely harmful waste and potential disaster. But Environmentalists such as Stewart Brand have advocated nuclear power as being atmospherically clean, and argue that it is significantly safer than it was 50 years ago.
Genetic Engineering: In light of new genetic technologies, it may be possible to engineer both cattle and agriculture to sustain higher yields with less waste. However, there is a great deal of cynicism about technology in the Environmentalist movement, with genetically modified foods raising a great deal of concern in particular.
Hunting: The rights of animals have long been associated with the Environmentalist movement. However, other Environmentalists argue that there can be a powerful coalition with hunters and fishers who enjoy a safe, clean, and protected wilderness. They also note that individual hunters are less of a threat to the biosphere than more systemic  abuses. However, for many environmentalists, cooperation with hunters and fishers simply goes against their fundamental principles.
Partisanship: Critics have noted that the current strategy of supporting individual candidates with strong environmental credentials is ineffective if that candidate is part of a political party that is largely anti-environment. Others are reluctant, however, to suggest that this means they should unconditionally support a rival political party, especially since what is generally true of a party is not true of all its members. There are also concerns that partisanship may saturate the goals of the environmentalist movement with other goals of that political party, and otherwise undermine the legitimacy of the cause.
If someone has a working contact for Stewart, please let me know.  hkhenson@rogers.com, Keith Henson 18:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sentences from steward brand about environmentalism - 

message: I understand the point that the Whole Earth catalog sought to be a general reference and that in that sense it was analagous in function to the Internet, but I think to say that the catalog anticipated or was a precursor to the Internet any more than any other printed catalog or reference book is pushing the point a bit.  --Nowa 11:51, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Whole Earth Catalog - Internet

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message: Greetings. Which of the images in commons:Earth belongs in this article? We had the "blue marble" from 1972. I have seen a cover of a 1968 Whole Earth Catalog (I think in this video) that impossibly has that image. Currently I have added the first photo of Earth but omitted another first, this Earth rise. Any opinions? -SusanLesch (talk) 03:05, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is in that video at 12:33 with a caption that reads "1968 to 1974" so the date could be 1972. Except the source for thinking about this earlier is Brand himself at the Smithsonian which pictures a cover dated 1968 with a blue marble on the cover. I don't believe somebody here. -SusanLesch (talk) 16:06, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Liberatus gives us a source!. Thank you very much. I leave it to a photo expert to add the right image here. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whole Earth 

message: "How Buildings Learn" is a very nice commentary on architecture by an amateur, however, the most important point Stewart writes about is his recanting of geodesic domes which he advocated in Whole Earth Catalog. The book deserves to have more written about it. 143.232.210.45 (talk) 21:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More needs to be said about "How Buildings Learn" 

message: The "American Indian" section of this article is odd: Brand isn't really known, in any substantial or defining way, for work about/with native peoples: they crop up in his various works in the manner which they appeared in a lot of stuff from the 1960's, as a sort of token. By this rationale, every bio of a 60's figure should include such a section. I'm sure he's mentioned African-Americans in his works: should there be a section on them as well? He mentions Costa-Ricans, Africans, Norwegians, Maori, Aboriginies, New Zealanders, etc. in his works as well...should they have sections as well? You see my point, I hope.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.110.123.197 (talk) 22:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. That's a great comment, thank you. -SusanLesch (talk) 16:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Indian section should be deleted 

message: I note that there's criticism of Stewart Brand on the internet, alleging that his leanings serve corporate and/or libertarian interests at the expense of the environmentalism he professes. If this argument does exist in print, and has some validity, I think it'd improve the balance of the article.
Here are some links from a quick google search:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&client=firefox-a&hl=en&q=cache:b53829Tu2XcJ:http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html+stewart+brand+libertarian+criticism&ct=clnk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/nov/05/stewart-brand-pesticide
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/25-3
66.91.63.239 (talk) 06:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political orientation/criticism? 

message: Re: Whole Earth Discipline: One main topic area of the book is Brand's reasoned appeal in favor of (and to assuage readers' fears about) nuclear power-plant utilization and proliferation.  But now we've lived through a year in which the world public has been barraged by media reportage depicting the effects of earthquake & tsunami on a nuclear plant built and used in a disciplined, modern society - raising issues, to be sure.  By any account, what happened in northern Japan has been a huge tragedy.  How isolated an event this is remains to be seen.  So I'd think readers of this article will wonder what Brand is saying nowadays.  If anyone has info on this, it might be worth ammending the article.Joel Russ (talk) 23:50, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-2011-Japanese-tsunami thinking? 

message: I wonder if there is a better way to organize this section with the section headings.  It seems kind of hard to follow currently. Anyone else feel similarly or have any ideas? AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 00:25, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, AdventurousSquirrel. My suggestion is to stuff our desire for order. Just forget it. If there is an exception in the U.S. to rigorous cataloging it is Mr. Brand. -SusanLesch (talk) 20:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization/layout

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message: Note - The Smithsonian link does not work. I found the following on the Wayback Machine. This is my first recommendation on Wikipedia.  
https://web.archive.org/web/20090327075119/http://click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=31 Tom Christoffel - Northern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA (talk) 04:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference item 6 -  Brand, Stewart. "Photography changes our relationship to our planet". Smithsonian Photography Initiative. Retrieved 2009-11-06. 

message: Brand was famously anti-metric-system in the 1970s. This seems worth mentioning. Hopefully with fewer expletives than float around in my head. Aldenrw (talk) 03:16, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-metric stance 

message: https://www.weareasgods.film/
I just watched this film, We Are As Gods (2021). While it provides a full and fascinating biographical account of Brand’s life and work, it focuses on his current controversial project of restoring ecosystems by bringing back extinct species like the wooly mammoth. I don’t see that aspect of his work covered at all in the current article. I am new to this side of Wikipedia, so would someone out there like to take this on? Ladyalight (talk) 02:59, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-extinction project