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Book SynopsisThe Whole Earth Catalog grew from a Bay Area blip to a national phenomenon. In recovering the history of the Catalog's brand of environmentalism, this book recounts how San Francisco's Stewart Brand and his counterculture cohorts in the Point Foundation promoted a philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism.
Trade Review"Vividly written and deeply researched, Counterculture Green tells a big story about how a group of technophile hippies invented human-scale ecological living and helped to change the world." David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s "This is the story of America's other environmental movement, one that promoted safe and small technologies, that celebrated human ingenuity as well as the human species, that fostered passionate thinking - and acting - outside the box.... Timely, informative, entertaining, and critically important." Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "A major work of environmental and cultural history." Ari Kelman, author of A River and Its City"
