CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1976

“It seems to be a paradigmatic question to ask if we should move massively into Space. In addressing that we’re addressing our most fundamental conflicting perceptions of ourself, of the planetary civilization we’ve got under way.”

Published: Spring 1976
Collection: CoEvolution Quarterly
Links: Internet Archive, Download PDF

Sections:

Space Colonies4
Understanding Whole Systems80
Land Use92
Soft Technology96
Craft106
Shelter108
Community109
Nomadics118
Communications126
Learning131
Business143

CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1976

Space Colonies
1. 1. Summary of Gerard O’Neill’s idea
    4
  2. Is Balance Really Possible Where Even Gravity Is Manufactured? (Comments on O’Neill’s Space Colonies)
    4
  3. Ken Kesey
    6
  4. Russell Schweickart
    6
  5. Lewis Mumford
    6
  6. Lynn Margulis
    7
  7. Richard Raymond
    7
  8. The real backers
    7
  9. Dean Fleming
    7
  10. Wendell Berry
    7
  11. Wilson Clark
    10
  12. Space for peace
    10
  13. E.F. Schumacher
    10
  14. Stephanie Mills
    10
  15. Steve Durkee
    11
  16. Extra energy
    11
  17. Steve Baer
    11
  18. The SF vote Dennis Meadows
    11
  19. Stanley Marsh III
    13
  20. Sufficient error
    13
  21. Paul and Anne Ehrlich
    13
  22. Pioneer
    13
  23. Down the road
    13
  24. Ernest Callenbach
    15
  25. Carl Sagan
    15
  26. Rather
    15
  27. William Irwin Thompson
    15
  28. George Wald
    15
  29. David Brower
    17
  30. Michael Phillips
    17
  31. Ant Farm
    17
  32. John Todd
    17
  33. Brother David Steindl-Rast
    22
  34. Info isn't heavy
    22
  35. Planet parenthood
    23
  36. Richard Brautigan
    23
  37. Juvenile space
    23
  38. Peter Warshall
    23
  39. Landscape and tools
    23
  40. Phosphate!
    25
  41. Cycles & pollution
    25
  42. Biology first
    25
  43. L-5 News
    25
  44. Arab Space Program age
    25
  45. Anne Norcia
    27
  46. Marc Le Brun
    27
  47. Garrett Hardin
    27
  48. R. Buckminster Fuller
    27
  49. Seed
    27
  50. Paolo Soleri
    30
  51. Julia Brand
    30
  52. Better foolishness
    30
  53. David Shetzline
    35
  54. Partial atmospheric pressure
    35
  55. John Holt
    35
  56. Technical debate
    35
  57. Behind the question
    43
  58. Erik Eckholm
    43
  59. Margalef, civilization & space
    43
  60. Hot Gaia
    45
  61. Gary Snyder
    45
  62. Metallurgical paradise
    45
  63. Hazel Henderson
    45
  64. Space war
    47
  65. Anne Waldman
    47
  66. Vine Deloria, Jr,
    47
  67. Brazil's space colony
    47
  68. Gurney Norman
    48
  69. Daughter
    48
  70. Investment space
    48
  71. Compiler
    48
  72. Allure
    48
  73. National Space Institute
    48
  74. Gerard O'Neill
    50
  75. Stewart Brand
    50
  76. The New Alchemists by John Todd
    54
  77. Space Colonies, Ethics, and People by J. Peter Vajk
    66
  78. Space colonies should keep away from the government for a while Astronaut Russell Schweickart on the phone
    72
Understanding Whole Systems
1. 1. General Systemantics
    80
  2. Where Are The Earth’s Erogenous Zones?
    80
  3. U.S. Photo Murals
    81
  4. Losing Ground
    81
  5. World Game, 1976
    81
  6. World Model
    81
  7. Prayer Breakfast by Gregory Bateson and Governor Jerry Brown Lage
    82
  8. Capitalism and Material Life
    85
  9. The Elements
    85
  10. Le Sauvage
    85
  11. Four New Poems by Gary Snyder
    86
  12. Sociobiology by Peter Warshall
    88
  13. Isak Dinesen
    90
  14. Its the water — and a lot more
    90
  15. Oaks and the sweet smell of sex
    90
  16. A Coevolutionary game: Feeding the Masses
    91
  17. Coevolution takes TIME
    91
Land Use
1. 1. The Postage Stamp Garden Book
    92
  2. Mulch Books
    92
  3. Comfrey Report
    92
  4. Vegetable Crops
    93
  5. Organic Small Farming
    93
  6. Fertility Pastures and Cover Crops
    93
  7. The Earth Manual
    94
  8. Rybezynski & Warshall on shit management
    94
  9. Wildflowers and Weeds
    94
Soft Technology
1. 1. Homemade Windmills of Nebraska
    96
  2. Other Homes and Garbage
    96
  3. Farallones Institute
    97
  4. Display wattmeter
    97
  5. Energy Earth and Everyone
    97
  6. Kilowatt Counter
    97
  7. Solar Energy Thermal Processes
    98
  8. Solar Energy Handbook
    98
  9. Solar Pond
    98
  10. Solar Energized Food Dehydrator
    98
  11. Solar Test Facility
    98
  12. Solar Directory
    99
  13. VW prime mover
    99
  14. Devcon
    99
  15. The Procedure Handbook of Are Welding
    99
  16. MORE Highly Eyolvee Toolbox by J. Baldwin
    100
Craft
1. 1. By Shaker Hands
    106
  2. Health Hazards Manual for Artists
    106
  3. Colorado Fleece Company
    106
  4. Art Needlework Industries
    107
  5. Star Wool Stores
    107
  6. Fabric Printing: Screen Method
    107
Shelter
1. 1. Illustrated Housebuilding
    108
  2. Do-It-Yourself Plumbing
    108
  3. Dome Notes
    108
Community
1. 1. Lehman Hardware Company
    109
  2. Moonshiners Manual
    109
  3. Practical Self Sufficiency
    109
  4. A Barefoot Doctor’s Manual
    110
  5. New Woman’s Survival Sourcebook
    110
  6. Follow-up on the “no jelly” diaphragm
    111
  7. What Do We Use for Lifeboats When the Ship Goes Down?
    111
  8. Talc-asbestos hazard
    111
  9. From Huey Newton in Cuba
    112
  10. And There Was Light
    112
  11. The Book of Tofu
    112
  12. The Country of the Pointed Firs
    113
  13. Great Creatures Throughout History and How They Grew by Dan O'Neill
    114
Nomadics
1. 1. Canada Bike
    118
  2. Bike mouth & superbike
    118
  3. King of the Road
    118
  4. Total bike access
    118
  5. Frisbee
    120
  6. Economy Driving
    120
  7. Le Truck
    120
  8. Without Wheels
    120
  9. Alden Shell
    122
  10. Surveying Small Craft
    122
  11. Boat Building With Plywood
    122
  12. Heavy Weather Sailing
    123
  13. Sager Weathercaster
    123
  14. Good grub(s)
    123
  15. The Art of Bodysurfing
    124
  16. Hang Flight
    124
  17. 1976 Charter Flight Directory
    124
  18. Structure Fishing
    125
  19. Net
    125
  20. American Caves and Caving
    125
Communications
1. 1. Boycott the Metric System
    126
  2. On Machine Intelligence
    126
  3. Computer Chess
    126
  4. Calculus Primer
    126
  5. BYTE Magazine
    128
  6. Hobbyist computer suppliers and clubs
    128
  7. Digital Design with Standard MSI and LSI
    129
  8. Computers in the 1980s
    129
  9. Computer structures
    130
  10. Fractured anatomy
    130
  11. Peter Kagan and the Wind
    130
  12. The First Seven Days
    130
Learning
1. 1. Joni Mitchell
    131
  2. Cricket
    131
  3. Read For Your Life
    131
  4. Take As Directed by Ron Jones
    132
  5. From Sad to Glad
    140
  6. A Rating of Graduate Programs
    140
  7. Barron’s Guide to Medical, Dental, and Allied Health Science Careers
    142
  8. CPC Salary Survey
    142
  9. More on Grassroots Distribution
    142
Business
1. 1. CQ balance sheet
    143
  2. CQ financial picture
    143
  3. Subscription price going up
    143
  4. Or Whole Earth
    143
  5. Gossip
    144
  6. Patrons
    144
  7. Credits
    144

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