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.”

Published: Winter 2001
Collection: Whole Earth Magazine
Links: Internet Archive, Download PDF

Sections:

Here and Now4
Forever5
Other Features66
Books & Tools64
The Electric Dragon12
Power to the People: Books & Tools20

Whole Earth, Winter 2001

HERE AND NOW
1. 1. Comparison Is Key by MARY CATHERINE BATESON. New learning is a victory for the human spirit. So is empathy.
    4
  2. India Will Not Behave by Arundhati Roy. India’s most unreasonable author tries to wake us up.
    78
  3. Memo to American Muslims by MUQTEDAR KHAN
    82
  4. Nonviolent Soldier of Islam
    82
  5. Islam: Beyond Stereotypes
    83
  6. Council on American—Islamic Relations
    83
  7. Superterrorism
    83
  8. Afghanistan
    83
FOREVER
1. 1. Our City of Friends. Gift-giving recommendations—tools, services, donations—from twenty-four Whole Earth friends.
    5
1. 1. Dancing with Systems by DONELLA MEADOWS. What to do when systems resist change. From an unpublished manuscript by the compassionate systems guru.
    58
  2. The Fifteen Properties of Life by CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER. The author of A Pattern Language shows how structures and systems come alive.
    70
  3. Your Face Is Not a Bar Code by PHIL AGRE. Arguments against automatic face recognition in public places.
    74
  4. Hot Clam! By CAL POLK. Access to shellfishing
    86
  5. Evergreen Pacific Shellfish Guide
    86
  6. The Compleat Clammer
    86
  7. Fishing Cybernall
    86
  8. The Deadliest Job in the World
    86
  9. The Bayman
    86
  10. The Angry Clam
    86
  11. Men’s Lives
    86
  12. Seafood Choices Alliance
    86
  13. Permaculture: Hype or Hope? By Greg Williams and Toby Hemenway. Two exceptional horticulturalists duke it out over the meaning and practice of permaculture.
    90
  14. Online Health After the Dot-Com Meltdown-What’s Next? Joe Flower interviews TOM FERGUSON and DERYK VAN BRUNT
    96
  15. And Then There Was Eve...Interview: Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues, with Emily Polk
    101
OTHER FEATURES
1. 1. The Highest Litter Brigade by DAVID BOLLING. The Clean-up of Mt. Everest
    66
BOOKS & TOOLS
1. Whole Systems
  1. One Universe
    64
  2. Encyclopedia of the Biosphere
    65
  3. The nature of Order
    73
  4. Power Politics
    81
  5. Birth of the Chaordic Age
    85
  6. When Genius Failed
    85
  7. Remains of a Rainbow
    88
  8. Environmentalism Unbound
    89
  9. Parasite Rex
    89
2. Nomadics, Places, Learning
  1. Tools for Everest Base Camp
    68
  2. Books on Everest
    69
  3. Gaia’s Garden
    90
  4. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
    95
  5. Four-Season Harvest
    95
3. Health, Sex, Spirit
  1. Health Online Access
    98
  2. The Vagina Monologues
    102
  3. Possessing the Secret of Joy
    103
  4. Lessons from the Intersexed
    103
  5. Access to Intersex and Female Genital Mutilation
    103
  6. How Can We Keep From Singing
    104
  7. The Place of Music
    104
  8. Wildlife Works
    105
  9. Gossip
    106
  10. Letters and Thanks
    107
  11. Publisher's Statement
    110
  12. Maniacals
    111
  13. Readers Service, Classifieds
    112
The Electric Dragon
1. 1. The Electric Dragon by PETER WARSHALL
    12
  2. Wind Power by David Bolling. Windy Vallejo To Go Off Oil
    26
  3. Solar Shareholding Goes Prime Time by KEITH RUTLEDGE. Can you afford to switch? Improved technology and government incentives say “Yes.”
    28
  4. Full Recharge: Battery News
    31
  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.
    32
  6. Ultraviolet for Health. Ashok Gadgil invents a low-cost water disinfector to give health to the world’s poor.
    39
  7. The Politically Correct Nuke by CHARLES WARDELL. MIT students try to design a safe, cost-effective, environmentally benign reactor.
    40
  8. Energy Power Musings
    43
  9. Hydrogen — A Little PR by THAMMY EVANS AND PETER LIGHT
    44
  10. The Table of Contents by REUBEN MARGOLIN. The author navigates cross-country in a traveling commons—part VW, part table.
    48
  11. The Hypercar
    53
  12. BamBucicletas
    54
  13. Kool-Stop Wilderbeast
    55
  14. Is a Hydrogen Car Competitive? By Bret J. LOGUE
    56
  15. Jump-Starting Renewables by TY CASHMAN
    57
Power to the People: BOOKS & TOOLS
1. 1. Reinventing Electric Utilities
    20
  2. Micropower
    20
  3. Power to the People: Access to Communities and Utilities
    21
  4. Real Goods Solar Living Source Book
    22
  5. Energy Plant Species
    23
  6. No-Regrets Remodeling
    24
  7. Building with Vision
    25
  8. Home Power
    25
  9. Reaping the Wind
    27
  10. How to Build Your Own Wind Meter
    27
  11. Wind Energy Resources
    27
  12. Printable Batteries
    31
  13. Low-flow Toilets
    37
  14. Greener Laundries
    37
  15. Water Heaters
    37
  16. Dammed Deregulation
    37
  17. Airwell Solar Distillers
    37
  18. Writing on Water
    38
  19. Water
    38
  20. Tomorrow’s Energy
    47
  21. Hydrogen Futures
    47
  22. Rocky Mountain Institute
    53
  23. Hypercar, Inc.
    53
  24. Electrifying Times
    53
  25. Electric Drag Racing Association
    53

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