Stewart Brand

American writer, editor, and organizer (born 1938), best known for founding the Whole Earth Catalog, and later the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.

Brand's Whole Earth Catalog (from 1968) gathered "access to tools" for self-reliant, ecologically minded living, and opened with Fuller's ideas as its intellectual keystone. Across a long career Brand has remained a bridge between counterculture and technology — from the back-to-the-land movement to computing to his recent ecopragmatist environmentalism in Whole Earth Discipline.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Brand did as much as anyone to transmit Fuller to the counterculture: the Whole Earth Catalog explicitly credited Fuller's thinking as its foundation, and its dome-and-tools sensibility carried his do-more-with-less ethos into the 1970s and beyond. He is a hub connecting Fuller to the appropriate-technology and futurist figures around him.

See Also

• James T. Baldwin (James T. Baldwin) — the Fuller student who edited the Catalog's tools/technology sections

• Est (Est) — counterculture cybernetics manifesto of the Whole Earth milieu Brand shaped

• Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry (Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry) — dome-movement manual of the kind the Catalog championed

• Robert Anton Wilson (Robert Anton Wilson) \x{2014} fellow Whole Earth / futurist counterculture figure

• L. Clark Stevens (L. Clark Stevens) — author of est: The Steersman Handbook

• Whole Earth / Portola Institute (Whole Earth / Portola Institute) — the nonprofit under which he published the Whole Earth Catalog

Sources

• Stewart Brand (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)