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Stewart Brand: Fearless Follower of Lovelock, not science

November 14, 2010 by David Lewis
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Stewart Brand has written an online Afterword intended to update his 2009 book Whole Earth Discipline.  In it, Brand tells us that the scientist he trusts most about climate, James Lovelock, has “softened his sense of alarm about the pace of climate change”. Lovelock is now touting the gibberish of the climate denier Garth... [read more]

Stewart Brand on Colbert Report - With an Open Letter Response About "Clean Coal" Segment

May 8, 2010 by Rod Adams
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Stewart Brand appeared on the May 7, 2010 episode of the Colbert Report. (I tried to embed the clip, but Blogger does not like the way that the show's embed code is formatted. It kept telling me that the TD tag was broken. I hit a limit on my HTML coding ability when trying to troubleshoot and correct that error message.) While I like... [read more]

Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Green - Nuclear Conundrum Panel Discussion

April 25, 2010 by Rod Adams
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During the period between April 12-14, Fortune Magazine sponsored a conference titled Brainstorm Green that brought together a wide range of opinion leaders, environmentalists and business groups. One of the sessions at the conference included a discussion about nuclear energy that featured two representatives from companies seeking... [read more]

Nuclear Power: The Energy Phoenix

April 16, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Nuclear power might just be energy's version of the phoenix -- rising from the metaphoric ashes to play a key role in the solution to climate change. That's the gist of a Wall Street Journal feature that points out that as climate concerns rise a number of environmentalists are rethinking their position on the viability of nuclear... [read more]

From Counterculture To Cyberculture: The Life And Times Of Stewart Brand

March 12, 2010 by Big Gav
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This post was prompted by my reading Fred Turner's book "From Counterculture To Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism", which looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in particular Stewart Brand, who helped create first the hippie counterculture and the back to the... [read more]

Did You Miss Our Conversation with Stewart Brand?

February 22, 2010 by Energy Collective
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On Friday, February 18, 2010, the Energy Collective's Marc Gunther sat down with Stewart Brand, author of the Whole Earth Catalog, and Whole Earth Discipline. Ever the independent thinker, Brand weighed in on issues from renewables, to nuclear power and genetically modified crops. Click here to listen to the entire interview. [read more]

Stewart Brand on NPR Describing How Wrong He Was About Nuclear Energy

February 21, 2010 by Rod Adams
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Scott Simon interviewed Stewart Brand, an icon of the US environmental movement on Weekend Edition for Saturday, February 20, 2010. He asked some probing questions and Brand gave some clear responses that are worth listening to and understanding. Brand is an excellent communicator and has a savvy media presence that is worth emulating.... [read more]

Audio Archive: A Conversation with Stewart Brand and Marc Gunther

February 18, 2010 by Energy Collective
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A few of the audience-submitted questions were: "What about the issue of water and nuclear? By that I mean that nuclear uses tremendous amounts of water - which is an issue in the West for instance?  is this too much of a strain on this natural resource?" "Turkey Point 6 & 7 south of Miami will cost from $24 B to $ 35 B,... [read more]

A Conversation with Stewart Brand

February 1, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Live Webcast with a Pioneering Environmentalist February 18, 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST Click here for free registration In Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, (Amazon) lifelong environmentalist Stewart Brand (right) lays out what has been called “a mind-blowing vision for the planet's salvation: migration to the cities,... [read more]

Why Stewart Brand’s new book is a must-read

January 5, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Many books shaped my thinking about business, economics and the environment during 2009. Last year was the year that I discovered Nassim Nicholas Taleb and The Black Swan, to my great delight, as well as the year that I began to explore behavioral economics by reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational and Nudge by Cass Sunstein and... [read more]

Challenging Amory Lovins Critique of Stewart Brand's Support For Nuclear On Gristmill

October 19, 2009 by Rod Adams
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Last week, I got involved in a discussion on Grist following the publication of an article by Amory Lovins titled Stewart Brand's Nuclear Enthusiasm Falls Short on Facts and Logic. As a long time skeptic when it comes to words published by Amory Lovins on the topic of nuclear energy and its economic competitiveness, I thought I could... [read more]

Nuclear Nonsense: Amory Lovins On Stewart Brand

October 15, 2009 by Big Gav
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Grist has an article from Amory Lovins on Stewart Brand's new book "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto" - Stewart Brand’s nuclear enthusiasm falls short on facts and logic. I like Brand and usually agree with him, but I'm with Amory on this one.Supporting technical details and citations for this post can be found here... [read more]