The Whole Earth Catalog Now Online

“In the begin­ning, Stew­art Brand cre­at­ed the Whole Earth Cat­a­log. And the earth was with­out the web, google or blog­ging (which the Whole Earth Cat­a­log is cred­it­ed with inspir­ing). Steve Jobs described it as “an amaz­ing pub­li­ca­tion… one of the bibles of my gen­er­a­tion… It was sort of like Google in paper­back form, 35 years before Google came along: it was ide­al­is­tic, and over­flow­ing with neat tools and great notions”. ” Emma Ridge­way on Arts & Ecol­o­gy blog at http://mtblog.typepad.com/arts_ecology

in the cold war days and no pc’s the cat­a­log became the guardian of tech­nol­o­gy.

Won­der­ing what the whole earth cat­a­log is about but I am inter­est­ed in the hacks, tips, tools, sug­ges­tions and pos­si­bil­i­ties for opti­miz­ing life.
david vin­cent.

I would be very grate­ful, if you could (where pos­si­ble) kind­ly send me either a hard copy or elec­tron­ic copy of the Whole Earth Cat­a­logue.

I could be reached, by posts, at the address:

Assoc. Prof. P. Tar­powah Kear, Jr.
Pro­fes­sion­al Offi­cer for Phar­ma­cy
Dept. of Human Resources for Health Devel­op­ment
West African Health Organ­sa­tion (WAHO)
175 Ave. Ouezzin Coulibaly
01 BP 153 BOBO-DIOULASSO 01
Burk­i­na Faso

I am going to try to start a Habi­tat for Salt Spring Island org. I need the Whole Earth Cat­a­log in it’s entire­ty, how can I get copies of this or is it on disk or can I down­load all pub­li­ca­tions. Please help if you can. Kathryn Rose Emer­son

Back in the 70’s, I used a Whole Earth Cat­a­log to build a geo­des­ic dome out of 2x4’s. Any chance of your know­ing where I might find the arti­cle? Thanks, WesD (we******@co*****.net) 509.533.6891

And don’t miss, on the low­er right cor­ner of page 310 (312 on the tool­bar; zoom till you see “How to Need a Cat­a­log”)

https://archive.org/details/B‑001–013-719/page/n311/mode/2up

https://ia801609.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/10/items/B‑001–013-719/B‑001–013-719_jp2.zip&file=B‑001–013-719_jp2/B‑001–013-719_0311.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0

of The Last Whole Earth Cat­a­log from 1971, the cult-clas­sic “Wid­ow Woman Let­ter” intro­duced with­in by edi­tor Stew­art Brand:

Wen­dell Berry says this let­ter is a fugue, it’s a real let­ter writ­ten by a man who says what he means. It came to us through Gur­ney Nor­man. — SB

From the intro­duc­tion by the Ken­tucky writer Gur­ney Nor­man (Divine Right’s Trip, &c.) to the ver­sion pub­lished ear­li­er in the Bay area alter­na­tive paper The Free You (Mid­penin­su­la Free Uni­ver­si­ty), Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan­u­ary 1969

http://midpeninsulafreeu.com/images/82.pdf

http://midpeninsulafreeu.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpeninsula_Free_University

Editor’s note: this is an actu­al let­ter sent some years ago to a movie-star mag­a­zine in New York by a man in a men­tal hos­pi­tal in a south­west­ern state. It has not been edit­ed, except to leave out the man’s name and address. G.N.

Has the web­site domain dis­ap­peared?

I just tried click­ing on these links…
The very good news is that The Whole Earth Cat­a­log and some relat­ed pub­li­ca­tions are now avail­able online. You can read them for free, or down­load them for a fee. Start delv­ing into things here.
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We had a copy of the Whole Earth cat­a­logue in the 70s and I’d real­ly like to read it again online.

Thanks

Dear Con­nie, in spite of 11 years that have passed since your post, I would real­ly like to ask you to share a copy of the Whole Earth Cat­a­log with me in any read­able form. Thank you very much, Maciek.

If any­one has this link,please share!! Would love to dig into these!

I’need to have the whole earth cat­a­logue 1974 édi­tion