Whole Earth Index

CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1977

“Within the structure of an Arms Race there is no formal solution. They run to exhaustion. The place to look for relief is the context in which they are embedded — the language of the rules of the game and the cultural valuing of its conduct.”

Sections:
  1. Understanding Whole Systems
  2. Land Use
  3. Soft Technology
  4. Craft
  5. Community
  6. Nomadics
  7. Communications
  8. Learning
  9. Business
CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1977
  1. Politics
      1. From the Notebooks of R. Crumb
      2. HOW TO RUN THE ARMS RACE BACKWARD by Stewart Brand
        4
      3. THE NEW CLASS by Herman Kahn, Gov. Jerry Brown, Amory Lovins X
        8
      4. LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT — The Australian Green Bans by Jack Mundey talking to Ellen Newman and David Gancher
        40
      5. Ecology, Capitalism, Communism by Jack Mundey
        46
  2. Understanding Whole Systems
      1. Grand Design
        49
      2. Science News
        49
      3. The High Frontier
        50
      4. Notes from LS
        50
      5. Space agriculture retort
        50
      6. Snake by Anne Herbert
        51
      7. Odd Bodkins by Dan O’Neill
        52
      8. EXPLOITATION AND NURTURE by Wendell Berry
        56
  3. Land Use
      1. Greywater Re-use by Peter Warshall
        72
      2. The Most Unusual Letter We’ve Ever Received by C. Scott Van Strum
        73
      3. Earthworm Technology by Rosemary Menninger and Steve Brideats
        78
      4. Drip Irrigation by Rosemary Menninger
        79
  4. Soft Technology
      1. The Living BASICS from the UN
        80
      2. Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
        81
      3. Economically Appropriate Technologies for Developing Countries
        81
      4. Appropriate Technology — the upper case against by Witold Rybczynski
        82
      5. Office of Appropriate Technology in California
        83
      6. Fundamentals of Energy Utilization by Harold Morowitz
        84
      7. The Double Bubble Wheel Engine by Steve Baer
        86
      8. Zomeworks Pro Heater
        88
      9. Zomeworks Sun Tracker
        88
      10. Day-Land steam engines
        88
      11. A Model Used Oil Recycling Act
        88
      12. Small Gas Engines
        88
      13. Wind-catchers
        90
      14. Geothermal Technoecosystems and Water Cycles in Arid Lands
        90
      15. Alternative Rural Sanitation Systems SURVEY
        90
      16. Flannel sheets!
        92
      17. Guardian Smoke Detector
        92
      18. Living in One Room
        92
      19. Instant Furniture
        92
      20. The Underground World of Baldasare Forestiere by Joseph Torchia
        94
      21. Malcolm Wells comments
        97
      22. Pneumatic Structures
        97
      23. Sun Earth
        99
      24. Tuffak-Twinwall
        99
      25. Serrande Shutters
        99
      26. Shurcliff’s last catalog
        100
      27. Ecosol 101 Energy Recovery System
        100
      28. Sunstream solar hotwater system
        100
      29. Thermic Diode Solar Panel
        100
  5. Craft
      1. Pieced Quilts of Ontario
        101
      2. Traditional Pattern Units for Quilting
        101
      3. Berman Leathercraft
        101
  6. Community
      1. Fellowship
        102
      2. Regional wages
        102
      3. Peter Van Dresser on Decentralization
        102
      4. In Defense of Variety
        102
      5. The Simple Life
        103
      6. Legacy Books
        103
      7. Folkdance & Mixed Pickles
        103
      8. Roundhouse Records
        103
      9. Yo'Momma! Onwuchekwa Jemie, transcriber
        104
      10. Sane Asylum
        106
      11. Tel-med
        106
      12. A Good Age
        106
      13. Small-Time Operator & Music Works
        107
      14. How to Prepare for Death
        107
      15. The cure for seasickness
        108
      16. Blotting
        108
      17. RFD
        108
      18. Frond of Coconuts
        108
      19. Marijuana As A Contraceptive by Kay Weiss
        109
      20. The Lefthanded Bear — more Animal Stories by J.D. Smith
        110
      21. Spring and i move the cat to another chair
        111
      22. dog flesh
        111
      23. Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking
        111
      24. Wellness Inventory
        111
      25. THE ACORN PEOPLE — Part 2 by Ron Jones
        122
  7. Nomadics
      1. Bickerton Bicycle revisited
        120
      2. Golden Bear MK 2 Bike Locking Cable
        120
      3. The Mariner’s Catalog Volume
        121
      4. The Craft of Sail
        121
      5. Standing Wave by Scott Thybony
        122
  8. Communications
      1. Rolf Cahn gives guitar lessons by tape
        124
      2. Computer Power and Human Reason
        124
  9. Learning
      1. Infants and Mothers
        125
      2. The Whole Kids Catalog
        125
      3. Ranger Rick’s Nature Magazine
        126
      4. Fifth World Tales
        126
      5. Teachers and Writers Collaborative
        127
      6. BENNY Benny Divenis interviewed by Dan Cassidy and John Levin
        128
      7. OBEYING CHOGYAM TRUNGPA by William S. Burroughs
        132
      8. Comment from Jonas Mekas
        135
      9. At a Journal Workshop
        135
      10. Journal
        135
      11. Castenada’s Journey
        136
      12. The Zetetic
        136
      13. Passages
        137
      14. Meditation timer
        137
      15. Gamesemag
        137
      16. The Work of Idries Shah by James Fadiman
        138
      1. How to Make Your Own Educational Materials
        127
  11. Business
      1. Thank you
        141
      2. Help
        143
      3. Financial Reverses at CQ
        143
      4. Gossip
        143
      5. Grassroots Distribution
        143
      6. ‘Or Whole Earth’
        143
      7. Masthead
        144
      8. Change of address sermonette
        144
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