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Whole Earth, Winter 2001

“A transformation of the Energy Web is under way. Local power has become less costly, more reliable, and more secure. […] ‘Micropowers’ like fuel cells, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, wave, and biomass will replace aging central power plants and electric power will distribute itself closer to home.”

Sections:
  1. Here and Now
  2. Forever
  3. Other Features
  4. Books & Tools
  5. The Electric Dragon
  6. Power to the People: Books & Tools
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  1. HERE AND NOW
      1. Comparison Is Key by MARY CATHERINE BATESON. New learning is a victory for the human spirit. So is empathy.
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      2. India Will Not Behave by Arundhati Roy. India’s most unreasonable author tries to wake us up.
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      3. Memo to American Muslims by MUQTEDAR KHAN
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      4. Nonviolent Soldier of Islam
        82
      5. Islam: Beyond Stereotypes
        83
      6. Council on American—Islamic Relations
        83
      7. Superterrorism
        83
      8. Afghanistan
        83
  2. FOREVER
      1. Our City of Friends. Gift-giving recommendations—tools, services, donations—from twenty-four Whole Earth friends.
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      1. Dancing with Systems by DONELLA MEADOWS. What to do when systems resist change. From an unpublished manuscript by the compassionate systems guru.
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      2. The Fifteen Properties of Life by CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER. The author of A Pattern Language shows how structures and systems come alive.
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      3. Your Face Is Not a Bar Code by PHIL AGRE. Arguments against automatic face recognition in public places.
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      4. Hot Clam! By CAL POLK. Access to shellfishing
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      5. Evergreen Pacific Shellfish Guide
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      6. The Compleat Clammer
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      7. Fishing Cybernall
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      8. The Deadliest Job in the World
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      9. The Bayman
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      10. The Angry Clam
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      11. Men’s Lives
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      12. Seafood Choices Alliance
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      13. Permaculture: Hype or Hope? By Greg Williams and Toby Hemenway. Two exceptional horticulturalists duke it out over the meaning and practice of permaculture.
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      14. Online Health After the Dot-Com Meltdown-What’s Next? Joe Flower interviews TOM FERGUSON and DERYK VAN BRUNT
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      15. And Then There Was Eve...Interview: Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues, with Emily Polk
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  4. OTHER FEATURES
      1. The Highest Litter Brigade by DAVID BOLLING. The Clean-up of Mt. Everest
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  5. BOOKS & TOOLS
    1. Whole Systems
      1. One Universe
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      2. Encyclopedia of the Biosphere
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      3. The nature of Order
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      4. Power Politics
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      5. Birth of the Chaordic Age
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      6. When Genius Failed
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      7. Remains of a Rainbow
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      8. Environmentalism Unbound
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      9. Parasite Rex
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    2. Nomadics, Places, Learning
      1. Tools for Everest Base Camp
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      2. Books on Everest
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      3. Gaia’s Garden
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      4. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
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      5. Four-Season Harvest
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    3. Health, Sex, Spirit
      1. Health Online Access
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      2. The Vagina Monologues
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      3. Possessing the Secret of Joy
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      4. Lessons from the Intersexed
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      5. Access to Intersex and Female Genital Mutilation
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      6. How Can We Keep From Singing
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      7. The Place of Music
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      8. Wildlife Works
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      9. Gossip
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      10. Letters and Thanks
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      11. Publisher's Statement
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      12. Maniacals
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      13. Readers Service, Classifieds
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  6. The Electric Dragon
      1. The Electric Dragon by PETER WARSHALL
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      2. Wind Power by David Bolling. Windy Vallejo To Go Off Oil
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      3. Solar Shareholding Goes Prime Time by KEITH RUTLEDGE. Can you afford to switch? Improved technology and government incentives say “Yes.”
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      4. Full Recharge: Battery News
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      5. The Unholy Triumvirate by PETER WARSHALL. Water, Energy, and Cash. To every energy recipe, add water; to every water recipe, add energy; to all water/energy relationships, add cash. A new paradigm for futures thinking.
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      6. Ultraviolet for Health. Ashok Gadgil invents a low-cost water disinfector to give health to the world’s poor.
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      7. The Politically Correct Nuke by CHARLES WARDELL. MIT students try to design a safe, cost-effective, environmentally benign reactor.
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      8. Energy Power Musings
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      9. Hydrogen — A Little PR by THAMMY EVANS AND PETER LIGHT
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      10. The Table of Contents by REUBEN MARGOLIN. The author navigates cross-country in a traveling commons—part VW, part table.
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      11. The Hypercar
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      12. BamBucicletas
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      13. Kool-Stop Wilderbeast
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      14. Is a Hydrogen Car Competitive? By Bret J. LOGUE
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      15. Jump-Starting Renewables by TY CASHMAN
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  7. Power to the People: BOOKS & TOOLS
      1. Reinventing Electric Utilities
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      2. Micropower
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      3. Power to the People: Access to Communities and Utilities
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      4. Real Goods Solar Living Source Book
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      5. Energy Plant Species
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      6. No-Regrets Remodeling
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      7. Building with Vision
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      8. Home Power
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      9. Reaping the Wind
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      10. How to Build Your Own Wind Meter
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      11. Wind Energy Resources
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      12. Printable Batteries
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      13. Low-flow Toilets
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      14. Greener Laundries
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      15. Water Heaters
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      16. Dammed Deregulation
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      17. Airwell Solar Distillers
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      18. Writing on Water
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      19. Water
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      20. Tomorrow’s Energy
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      21. Hydrogen Futures
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      22. Rocky Mountain Institute
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      23. Hypercar, Inc.
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      24. Electrifying Times
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      25. Electric Drag Racing Association
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