Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is a pioneer of information technology, the publisher of the counterculture manual the Whole Earth Catalog, and, according to an article for Southeast Farm Press in the US, "one of the poster children for the environmental movement".[1]
He has become a champion of nuclear power and genetic engineering.[2] He has argued for the acceptance of genetically engineered crops in organic food production.[3]
According to a New York Times article, he now "sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon."[4]
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Career
In 1977-79, Brand was a "special advisor" in the administration of California Governor Jerry Brown. In 1984, Brand and Larry Brilliant founded The WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link"), a "bulletin board which is something like an internet chatroom".[5]
In 1986, Brand was a visiting scientist at the Media Laboratory at MIT. Soon after, he took up the role of private-conference organizer for such corporations as Royal Dutch Shell, Volvo, and AT&T. In 1988, he became a co-founder of the Global Business Network consultancy,[6] which explores globalisation and business strategy. Brand has sat on the board of the Santa Fe Institute (founded 1984), an organization devoted to "fostering a multidisciplinary scientific research community pursuing frontier science."[7]
Biography
- Born: December 14 1938, Rockford, Illinois.
- Education: 1954-56, Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanford University.
- Married: 1966 Lois Jennings (marr. diss '72). Ryan Phelan 1983- . One son, Noah Johnson.
- Career: 1960-62, US Army officer; '62-68 Created multi-media performances; '77-79; adviser to Jerry Brown; '88- co-founder and board member Global Business Network; '89 - Member board of trustees, Santa Fe Institute; '95 - co-founder, then president, The Long Now Foundation; 2000 co-Founder, All Species project. Publications: 1968-72, Founded, edited, and published Whole Earth Catalogue; '74 Two Cybernetic Frontiers; '87 The Media Lab; '94 How Buildings Learn; '99 The Clock Of The Long Now.[8]
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Notes
- ↑ Hembree Brandon, Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics, Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ John Tierney, An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’, New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ Hembree Brandon, Lobbing brickbats: Baby steps toward acceptance of biotech in organics, Southeast Farm Press, 3 Aug 2009, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ John Tierney, An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’, New York Times, 27 Feb 2007, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ Andrew Brown, Whole Earth Visionary, The Guardian, 4 Aug 2001, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ History, GBN website, version archived 6 Jan 07, accessed in web archive 12 Nov 2010
- ↑ Andrew Brown, Whole Earth Visionary, The Guardian, 4 Aug 2001, accessed 12 Aug 2009
- ↑ Andrew Brown, Whole Earth Visionary, The Guardian, 4 Aug 2001, accessed 12 Aug 2009
