Whole Earth Index

Whole Earth, Summer 1999

“No civilization can survive the physical destruction of its resource base. It is very clear that the material infrastructure of the twentieth century is not sustainable.”

Sections:
  1. Special: Cities
  2. Special: Farms—Globalocal Soy
  3. Coevolution
  4. Homeplate
  5. Eternity
  6. Cities
  7. Soy, Farms, Biotech, Etc
  8. Human Rights
  9. Backmatter
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  1. SPECIAL: Cities
      1. The Viridian Manifesto of January 3, 2000 by Bruce Sterling
        4
      2. Elegant Empathetic Affordable Housing by Michael Pyatok: The master craftsman of affordable housing shares his thoughts on community outreach.
        28
      3. Hydrogen Beer Bash at the Tike-Take Bar
        36
      4. City Lights by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: An address by San Francisco’s poet laureate.
        38
      5. Midst the Handauns Red Glare by Sudhir Venkatesh: A Chicago housing project, even amidst gang wars, searches for community and a sense of home.
        41
      6. Elegant Densities by Mayor Jerry Brown
        48
      7. To Save Salmon, Stop Juvenile Crime by Richard Conlin, Mayor Vera Katz, and Margie Matthews
        50
      8. Book Brawl by Patricia Holt: Can independent bookstores survive?
        64
  2. SPECIAL: Human Rights
      1. Human Rights: the Globalocal Theater 14: Morton Winstor’ surveys seven ways to help encourage human rights, especially among corporations.
      2. John Doe vs. Unocal by Morton Winston
        17
      3. Global Aspirations, Local Gospels by Blair Gibb: Are Western values for human rights really universal?
        20
      4. Alice Eve Kennington—Goodbye and Thanks
        25
  3. SPECIAL: FARMS—GLOBALOCAL SOY
      1. Farming on the Edge of Chaos by Peter Warshall
        72
      2. SOYBEAN OF HAPPINESS by Dan Imhoff and Peter Warshall: A 3,000-year history of the single most pivotol crop in globalocal diets, the protein wars, and future industrial and health products.
        75
      3. Leveraging the Heartland
        80
      4. The Farmers’ Watersheds
        82
      5. QUILTED FARM FIELDS by Brian DeVore: Farmers search for a future of crop diversity, hoping to find a way out of the monocrop trap.
        84
      6. Soy in the Mississippi River Basin
        91
      7. Soy Crushers & Commerce
        93
      8. Hog Wars by Maurice Telleen
        94
      9. AN OLD-STYLE BUTCHER ON THE KNIFE-EDGE by Carl Quintanilla: Dewig Meats can teach us all about the “fair” profit, making money with kind hearts and reasonable judgment. Money and fairness are part and parcel of the future of sustainable food commerce.
        97
      10. Soy Meal & Meat
        100
      11. Consumers
        103
      12. POOR MONSANTO by Donella H. Meadows: Demonizing Monsanto won’t end industrial agriculture. But, less arrogance and more open discussion of gene-spliced-food safety would help a lot. Biotech ecological and health-emergency sirens are loud and clear.
        104
      13. Biotech Hobbyist Magazine by Jaron Lanier
        111
  4. CoEVOLUTION
      1. The Gorilla’s Embrace by Barbara Smuts
        10
    2. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. American Bamboos
        27
      2. American Bamboo Society
        27
      3. The Lives of Animals
        13
      4. New Oxford Book of Food Plants
        26
      5. Totem Salmon
        27
    3. ACCESS
      1. USDA Web Photos
        26
  5. HOMEPLATE
      1. “Breathing Walls” by Michael K. Stone
        56
    2. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. The Apple Grower
        62
      2. Appropriate Building Materials
        60
      3. Bulletin of Primitive Technology
        61
      4. The Chair
        57
      5. Drink as Much as You Want
        37
      6. Earth Quarterly
        61
      7. Encyclopedia of Country Living
        63
      8. Escar-Go!
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      9. The Future of Children
        46
      10. Hemp Horizons
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      11. Hemp Pages
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      12. The Herbal Green Pages
        59
      13. The Homebrewer’s Garden
        37
      14. Hortldeas
        57
      15. Indigenous Medicinal Herbs
        58
      16. In-Row Weeder/Hoe
        57
      17. Juliette of the Herbs
        58
      18. Maybe One
        47
      19. Medicinal Herbs
        59
      20. Oxo Good Grips
        63
      21. PDR for Herbal Medicines
        58
      22. Primitive Technology
        61
      23. Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
        36
      24. Slide & Glide Wheelbarrow
        62
      25. State of America’s Children
        46
      26. State of the World’s Children
        46
      27. Stone
        60
      28. TurfTacs Staples
        57
  6. ETERNITY
    1. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. Crooked Cucumber
        68
      2. The Names of Things
        71
      3. Ploughing the Clouds
        69
      4. The Road to Eleusis
        69
      5. The Story of Libraries
        71
      6. The Temple of Man
        70
  7. CITIES
    1. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. Chronicle of Community
        40
      2. Concern Pest Control
        56
      3. Kids to the Country
        46
    2. ACCESS
      1. Housing
        35
      2. Independent Bookstores
        67
      3. Livable Cities
        55
  8. SOY, FARMS, BIOTECH, ETC
    1. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. Against the Grain
        110
      2. The Biotech Century
        109
      3. The Complete Soy Cookbook
        102
      4. Eat Not This Flesh
        100
      5. The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops
        109
      6. A Guide to Raising Pigs
        99
      7. Nature’s Metropolis
        89
      8. The New Soy Cookbook
        102
      9. Plants from Test Tubes
        110
      10. The Simple Soybean and Your Health
        101
      11. The Whole Soy Cookbook
        102
    2. ACCESS
      1. Biotech
        111
      2. Farmers & Soy
        90
      3. Soy Health & Factory Animal
        101
  9. HUMAN RIGHTS
    1. BOOKS & RESOURCES
      1. Business Ethics
        24
      2. The Ethical Imperative
        25
      3. Profit Over People
        24
      4. When Good Companies Do Bad Things
        24
    2. ACCESS
      1. Strategies for Human Rights
        14
      2. UN Human-Rights Web Sites
        25
  10. BACKMATTER
      1. Updates and News
        112
      2. Gossip and Letters
        114
      3. Thanks and Corrections
        116
      4. Business
        117
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