[UrbanCropCircle] Stewart Brand at Elliott Bay Books on Wednesday at 12:30

[Michael R. Wolf]

Midday at Elliott Bay. Trained as an ecologist before the term had  
much currency in the culture (this is over forty years ago), Stewart  
Brand has all this time been at the forefront of seeing and critiquing  
changes in community, society, systems, the planet itself. He edited  
the now-legendary CoEvolution Quaterly (later Whole Earth Review), the  
many editions of the Whole Earth Catalog (1968 - 1985, including a  
National Book Award-winning volume for 1972), is president and co- 
founder of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of the Global  
Business Network. His books have included The Media Lab, How Buildings  
Learn, and The Clock of the Long Now—and they now include the just- 
released Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Viking).  
Among those with early praise: James Lovelock, Edward O. Wilson, Wade  
Davis, Roger Kennedy, Witold Rybczynski, Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno,  
and more. "Stewart Brand defines iconoclastic, and has now raised the  
bar with the most important work of his lifetime, likely one of the  
most original and important books of the century ... Shibboleths,  
ideological cant, and green fetishes are put to the side with the  
clarity and expertise gained by years of research, and forethought, a  
mindbending exploration of what humankind can do and must do to retain  
the mantle of civilization. The highest compliment one can give a book  
is 'it changed my mind.' It changed mine and I am grateful." - Paul  
Hawken. Please check with the Elliott Bay Café at (206) 682-6664, www.elliottbaycafe.com 
  for special lunch options available as part of this program.
Address : <http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/oct09/brand.jsp>http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/oct09/brand.jsp

See description of his latest book here:
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Earth-Discipline-Ecopragmatist-Manifesto/dp/0670021210

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
     All mammals learn by playing!
         MichaelRWolf at att.net