Hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability Lecture Series, and held at the Liu Institute of Global Issues, Steward Brand has been an environmentalist for over 40 years, and shares his wisdom in his new book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. His book is a compilation of his reflections and lessons which suggest a shift in the environmentalists’ dogmatic approach, and describes a process of reasonable debate and experimentation. His iconoclastic proposals include transitioning to nuclear energy and ecosystem engineering, and are sure to provoke widespread debate. He has helped define the collaborative, data-sharing, forward-thinking world in which we live. Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation and the Well. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Brand, S. (1994). How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built. New York, NY: Viking.
Brand, S. (2009). Whole earth discipline: An ecopragmatist manifesto (1st ed.). New York: Viking.
Brand, S. (2007). Earth monitoring whole earth comes into focus. Nature, 450(7171), 797-797. doi:10.1038/450797a [Link]
Brand, S. (1999). The clock of the long now: Time and responsibility. New York: Basic Books.
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