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.”

Published: Summer 1999
Collection: Whole Earth Magazine
Links: Internet Archive, Download PDF

Sections:

Special: Cities4
Special: Farms—Globalocal Soy72
Coevolution10
Homeplate56
Eternity68
Cities40
Soy, Farms, Biotech, Etc110
Human Rights24
Backmatter112

Whole Earth, Summer 1999

SPECIAL: Cities
1. 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
SPECIAL: Human Rights
1. 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
SPECIAL: FARMS—GLOBALOCAL SOY
1. 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
CoEVOLUTION
1. 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
HOMEPLATE
1. 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!
    57
  9. The Future of Children
    46
  10. Hemp Horizons
    59
  11. Hemp Pages
    59
  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
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
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
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
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
BACKMATTER
1. 1. Updates and News
    112
  2. Gossip and Letters
    114
  3. Thanks and Corrections
    116
  4. Business
    117

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