Whole Earth Index

Space Colonies, December 1977

“This book is about how to take Space personally… The subject is Free Space. That’s the technical term for everyplace outside the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s a political term—and increasingly, as exploration and argument proceed into orbit, a political reality.”

Sections:
  1. Vision
  2. Debate
  3. Space
Space Colonies, December 1977
  1. Vision
      1. A CoEvolution Book
        4
      2. The sky starts at your feet
        5
      3. THE HIGH FRONTIER by Gerard O'Neill
        8
      4. TESTIMONY OF GERARD K. O’NEILL: Space Colonization and Energy Supply to Earth
        12
      5. IS THE SURFACE OF A PLANET REALLY THE RIGHT PLACE FOR AN EXPANDING TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION?” Interviewing Gerard O'Neill
        22
      6. 3-D Universe
        30
      7. The High Frontier
        30
      8. L-5 News
        30
      9. National Space Institute
        30
  2. Debate
      1. COMMENTS ON O’NEILL’S SPACE COLONIES
        33
      2. Ken Kesey
        34
      3. Russell Schweickart
        34
      4. Lewis Mumford
        34
      5. Lynn Margulis
        35
      6. Richard Raymond
        35
      7. The real backers
        35
      8. Dean Fleming
        36
      9. Wendell Berry
        36
      10. Wilson Clark
        38
      11. Space for peace
        38
      12. E. F. Schumacher
        38
      13. Stephanie Mills
        38
      14. Steve Durkee
        38
      15. Extra energy
        38
      16. Steve Baer
        40
      17. The SF vote
        40
      18. Dennis Meadows
        40
      19. Hazel Henderson
        40
      20. Allure
        42
      21. Daughter
        42
      22. Carl Sagan
        42
      23. Rather
        42
      24. Paul and Anne Ehrlich
        43
      25. Pioneer
        43
      26. Down the road
        43
      27. William Irwin Thompson
        44
      28. The rest of it
        44
      29. George Wald
        44
      30. David Brower
        44
      31. Michael Phillips
        46
      32. Ant Farm
        46
      33. John Todd
        46
      34. Brother David Steindl-Rast
        50
      35. Info isn't heavy
        50
      36. Planet parenthood
        50
      37. Richard Brautigan
        50
      38. Juvenile space
        50
      39. Peter Warshall
        52
      40. Space virus or child
        52
      41. Arab Space Program
        52
      42. Anne Norcia
        53
      43. Marc LeBrun
        53
      44. Metallurgical paradise
        53
      45. Hot Gaia
        53
      46. Erik Eckholm
        53
      47. Garrett Hardin
        54
      48. R. Buckminster Fuller
        54
      49. Seed
        54
      50. Paolo Soleri
        56
      51. Julia Brand
        60
      52. Better foolishness
        60
      53. David Shetzline
        60
      54. Partial atmospheric pressure
        60
      55. John Holt
        62
      56. Technical debate
        62
      57. Investment space
        69
      58. Space war
        69
      59. Gurney Norman
        69
      60. Gary Snyder
        69
      61. Sufficient error
        69
      62. Brazil’s space colony
        69
      63. Gerard O’Neill
        70
      64. Stewart Brand
        72
      65. SPACE COLONIES SHOULD KEEP AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR A WHILE Astronaut Russell Schweickart on the phone
        74
      66. THE DEBATE SHARPENS Wendell Berry angry
        82
      67. “Spaceship Earth” comes home to roost
        86
      68. Driving or driven to space
        86
      69. Evolution of Space industrialization
        89
      70. Satellite surveillance
        89
      71. Other voices
        89
      72. Life spreads before the sun
        90
      73. If the Sun Dies
        90
      74. ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR SPACE COLONIES
        92
      75. Space agriculture and Space cops
        94
      76. Space agriculture retort
        94
      77. The smile of Timothy Leary
        96
      78. Space just means bigger weapons
        96
      79. 8 am of the world
        96
      80. Limits to Growth — wronger than ever
        96
      81. Grandiose failure
        96
      82. JACQUES COUSTEAU AT NASA HEADQUARTERS
        98
      83. THE SPACE COLONIES IDEA 1969-1977 by Eric Drexler
        104
  3. Space
      1. WHO’S EARTH by Russell Schweickart
        110
      2. “WHERE!?” by Carl Sagan
        114
      3. Steel asteroids
        114
      4. A House in Space
        114
      5. THERE AIN'T NO GRACEFUL WAY Astronaut Russell Schweickart talking to Peter Warshall
        116
      6. CONTROVERSY IS RIFE ON MARS interviewing Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis
        120
      7. Education for Space Work
        128
      8. The Directory of Aerospace Education
        128
      9. Colonies in Space
        129
      10. Space Age Review
        129
      11. Earth/Space News
        129
      12. Space Settlements
        130
      13. Space Manufacturing Facilities
        130
      14. Spaceflight & JBIS
        130
      15. Concise Atlas of the Universe
        131
      16. Sky and Telescope
        131
      17. OLBERS’ PARADOX by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
        133
      18. SOLAR SAILING by Eric Drexler
        134
      19. Heliogyro solar sail
        134
      20. OPERATING ON THE EDGE Russell Schweickart talking
        138
      21. JERRY BROWN — FROM LIMITS ON EARTH TO POSSIBILITIES IN SPACE
        146
      22. INSTEAD OF FRICTIONLESS ELEPHANTS talking with Gerard O’Neill
        150
      23. The long view
        155
      24. Thanks
        155
      25. INDEX
        156
      26. Business
        159
      27. Announcement of The CoEvolution Quarterly
        160
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