DoomsdaysCW<p>A Short History Of The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WholeEarthCatalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WholeEarthCatalog</span></a> </p><p>Dan<br>July 5, 2020</p><p>"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?</p><p>"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecofriendly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecofriendly</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/offgrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>offgrid</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BackToNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackToNature</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/enviromentally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enviromentally</span></a> conscious and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainable</span></a>.</p><p>"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.</p><p>"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnMuir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnMuir</span></a> in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HenryDavidThoreau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryDavidThoreau</span></a>’s influential masterpiece <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Walden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walden</span></a>.</p><p>"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RachelCarson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelCarson</span></a>’s classic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilentSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentSpring</span></a> in 1962.</p><p>"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> of the Great Lakes.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wholepeople.com/whole-earth-ca</span><span class="invisible">talog/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WholeEarthCatalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WholeEarthCatalog</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Counterculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counterculture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HippieGeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HippieGeek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StewartBrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StewartBrand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreInternetResourceGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PreInternetResourceGuide</span></a></p>