CoEvolution Quarterly
Editor: Stewart Brand
Publisher: Point Foundation
CoEvolution Quarterly (1974-1984) was Stewart Brand's follow-up to the Whole Earth Catalog. Brand shifted away from practical tools and DIY resources towards systems thinking, ecology, technology, and cultural evolution. CoEv was a true intellectual hub for a post-hippie generation. Also features some killer R. Crumb art.
Issues
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Fall 1984, No. 43
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Language: English
The first two pages of the last issue of CoEvolution Quarterly pack a sweet little punch. Enjoy the grace. Featured articles include "Becoming Part of Gaia: One person's attempt to put Gaian principles into practice," Paul Krapfel, "Life as a Stream of Consciousness: Alzheimer's Disease," Sallie Tisdale, and "Indigenous Theater: Plays Without Actors," Maryat Lee.
📄 Read Digital Copysteve baer gary snyder j. baldwin sheila benson wes jackson sallie tisdale ron jones bernard nietschmann christopher alexander indigenous rights aging funeral rites non-harm gaian principles dementia death rituals land-based knowledge sustainable agriculture energy independence architectural design woodstoves disability rights local journalism poetry fiction book review essay -
Summer 1984, No. 42
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This issue's articles features general foreign conflict: "Crime and Capitalism in China," Orville Schell, "Nicaragua's Other War: Indian Warriors vs. Sandinistas," Bernard Nietschmann, and "Nuclear Winter: The Inside Story," Paul R. Ehrlich.
📄 Read Digital Copypaul ehrlich allen ginsberg sheila benson antler jay kinney ken kesey orville schell bernard nietschmann women's health family grief funeral rites chinese capitalism economic reform crime and punishment indigenous resistance religious freedom engineering climate catastrophe nuclear arms race communication memetics homeschooling poetry fiction book review essay -
Spring 1984, No. 41
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Do you like funeral customs, elephant poetry, and cults? This is the issue for you, my friend. Featured articles include "Elephants," Heathcote Williams and "The Sacred and the Dead: Autopsies, Embalming, and the Spirit," Sallie Tisdale. Read "Waiting for the Sting" by Donald Factor for your cult fix.
📄 Read Digital Copyivan illich j. baldwin john todd sheila benson heathcote williams paul hawken sallie tisdale alex grey paul a. colinvaux ron jones richard stites mortuary practices entrepreneurship community finance vernacular living home and identity gender equality american culture libya propaganda evolutionary history elephants education poetry book review essay comic -
Winter 1983, No. 40
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This issue's featured article is yet another by Ivan Illich "Silence is a Commons: Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets." Enclosures. Policing. The eroding Commons. Illich has predicted the future.
📄 Read Digital Copypeter warshall ivan illich anne herbert sheila benson sallie tisdale garrett hardin bill mclarney rick fields katy butler marshall massey william rodarmor aging cia personal computing child rearing the commons carrying capacity collapse secondhand economy superinsulation cultural misunderstanding central america cultural imperialism political corruption politics and martyrdom guru worship spiritiual corruption fiction book review essay -
Fall 1983, No. 39
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Politics & Religion. A doozy--features a whole special section! "I was saved from Certain Death by Jim Jones's Sunglasses," Jay Kinney. "Good, Wild, Sacred: The Politics of Reconnecting with Sacred Land" Gary Snyder. And a Symposium on Spiritual Politics, with messages from Jeff Dietrich, Starhawk, and my personal favorite, Ram Dass.
📄 Read Digital Copygary snyder sheila benson jay kinney starhawk ram dass julius lester susan griffin joanna rogers macy penny lernoux carl oglesby arthur waskow kathleen kennedy townsend microbiology sacred land christian politics liberation theology nuclear war disarmament mother theresa pest control poetry book review essay -
Summer 1983, No. 38
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In this issue: historical empire, 3rd world survival, and a look at ancient vs modern politics of place. Well, the place we all inhabit is earth, and James Lovelock is back with the Gaia Hypothesis in "Daisy World: A Cybernetic Proof of the Gaia Hypothesis." Also includes "Barbarians and Empire," Frederick Fuller and "Reflections by a Farming Woman," Susan Sweitzer Oberst.
📄 Read Digital Copyanne herbert sheila benson james lovelock michael phillips lynda barry richard grossinger sallie tisdale alex grey alan j. perlis joe kane personal computing computer science local politics taxation tax code pre-civilized europe celtic politics political art bank robbery women's work ethical investing poetry fiction book review essay -
Winter 1982, No. 36
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Failure, disaster, distress and becoming a lawyer are a few of the lovely themes in this issue of CoEv. Featuring articles "Toward a Common Covenant: Landscapes and Mind," Wes Jackson. "Mothers in Distress," Polly Harrison. "Male Failure, Female Success: From an Interview with Fred Hapgood." But do not fret, there is also poetry by Wendell Berry.
📄 Read Digital Copygregory bateson j. baldwin wendell berry sheila benson wes jackson paul hawken w.h. auden warren mcculloch philip wylie stephen pile parenting computer science failure misfortune environmental ethics agricultural ethics survival at sea urban decay anthropology apology marriage poetry book review essay interview -
Fall 1982, No. 35
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This issue features article "The Gift Must Always Move," by Lewis Hyde, on generosity and the re-imagining of the economy. Also, "Gregory Bateson: Old Men Ought to Be Explorers," Stephen Nachmanovitch. I agree.
📄 Read Digital Copypeter warshall gregory bateson j. baldwin r. crumb anne herbert lewis hyde stephen nachmanovitch space colonization rules animal communication anthropocentrism firewood figures of speech political hope poetry book review essay -
Summer 1982, No. 34
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In this issue, war and peace. Featuring articles "White America is Predominantly a Viking Culture," Michael Phillips and "Force Without Firepower," Gene Keyes, which explores "a doctrine of unarmed military service: what would be possible if we kept the military but took away their guns." Please check out the article "On Farting," by Michael Kimball. Please.
📄 Read Digital Copyr. crumb anne herbert jay kinney michael phillips paul hawken admiral hyman g. rickover andre gregory donella h. meadows whole systems organizational theory white american culture local politics maritime politics economic policy farting flatulence poetry book review essay -
Spring 1982, No. 33.
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This issue has a very distinct feminist theme, starting with the featured article "Vernacular Gender," by Ivan Illich. Have you ever considered what women add or detract from an economy based on their work? Well, you're about to. Includes other titles such as "Feminism and Pornography," Stephanie Mills and "The Legend of Great Uncle Jim and the Women Behind It All," Wall Baker.
📄 Read Digital Copypeter warshall ivan illich art kleiner anne herbert robert horvitz stephanie mills paul hawken pat califia frank viviano alternative energy gender relations vernacular gender birdsong chauvinism pheromones feminism and pornography feminism and sadomasochism ronald reagan police reform personal computing computer science poetry book review essay -
Winter 1981, No. 32
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Theme of the issue? Bioregions! Think "Politics of Place" for ecology. Featuring articles: "Living by Life," Jim Dodge. "The Concept of Social Ecology," Murray Bookchin. This issue dedicates a whole section to Devolution and the Fourth World, which features articles such as "Devolving Beyond Global Monoculture," Peter Berg and "Folkelig" Jon Stewart
📄 Read Digital Copygary snyder peter berg murray bookchin stephanie mills gary nabhan wes jackson paul hawken jan morris molly ivins winona laduke jim dodge jerry mander david rust forestry bioregionalism devolution political language nation building art native american land claim native american history welsh culture american plains poetry book review essay -
Fall 1981, No. 31
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This issue is for lovers of the good green earth, though that is probably every issue of CoEv. Featuring articles: "Mountains as Gods, Mountains as Goals," Thomas Laird. "Low-Rent Himalayas," Kevin Kelly. "Chipko: North India's Tree Huggers," Mark Shepard.
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Summer 1981, No. 30
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A seaworthy ambiance in this issue! Featuring articles, "The Politics of Place," Karl Hess and "How Not to Commit Suicide," Art Kleiner (graphic images). Okay, maybe not so seaworthy, besides "Where'ev You Been, Stranger? Disintermediation in the Maritimes," Bryce and Margaret Muir. And somewhat adjacent: "Pond Sculpture," Tim Matson. Honestly, there's a real big economics theme in this issue.
📄 Read Digital Copyart kleiner r. crumb sheila benson karl hess michael phillips robin clarke jan wojcik malcolm wells christopher stinson economic critique alternative energy localism government reform shadow government guernsey livable cities upstream ecology survival cosmos seed banks water features agroforestry homebuilding nuclear civil defense book review essay -
Spring 1981, No. 29
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In this issue, Robert Frank returns to still photography! Americans contemplate space, and there's some back and forth between Lovelock and Margulis on the Gaia Hypothesis.
📄 Read Digital Copygregory bateson ivan illich j. baldwin lynn margulis wendell berry art kleiner r. crumb sheila benson peter blue cloud james lovelock robert frank alternative energy nuclear weapons alternative medicine institutional reform disintermediation space exploration language politics computer slang network theory communications history energy access gaian geology whole foods permaculture black culture craft parenting poetry book review essay -
Winter 1980, No. 28
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"Seeing your neighborhood is part of what this issue is about." Includes articles, such as: "Six Days of Dyin," Mary Catherine Bateson. "L.A. Is a Real Place," Don Ryan. "I Never Thought to See So Large a Land," Kevin Kelly. And also! "Something Good for a Change," Wavy Gravy.
📄 Read Digital Copyj. baldwin art kleiner anne herbert sheila benson jay kinney heathcote williams mary catherine bateson wavy gravy organic farming nutrition gnostic gospels community alternative travel urban forestry british prehistory standing stones marine biology cross-country cycling outsider culture childbirth martin luther king machine history los angeles maritime literature poetry fiction book review essay -
Summer 1980, No. 26
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Featuring article: "Ways of Native American Running," Peter Nabokov and Margaret MacLean. Also featuring: "Vernacular Values," Ivan Illich and "Lesbian Insemination," by Susan Stern.
📄 Read Digital Copyivan illich lynn margulis susan stern r. crumb peter laurie sheila benson christopher swan peter nabokov margaret maclean leopold kohr carl lindegren mike rose alternative energy organic farming indigenous athletics vernacular culture economic philosophy slow living symbiosis theory gene theory energy-efficient housing railroad infrastructure civilization collapse chicano culture alternative medicine reproductive autonomy spanish civil war poetry book review essay letter -
Spring 1980, No. 25
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Featuring articles "Light Rail: How to Make it Work," Christopher Swan. "The Independent Practice of Science," James Lovelock. "A Man of the Trees," Edward Goldsmith interviewing Richard St. Barbe Baker.
📄 Read Digital Copyj. baldwin r. crumb peter laurie anne herbert sheila benson peter blue cloud antler jay kinney robert fuller james lovelock jeanne mcdermott christopher swan alternative energy forestry native american storytelling conflict resolution pornography scientific practice microbiology cia nuclear weapons wildlife public transit light rail drug policy buddhist economics libertarian media book review essay interview -
Winter 1979, No. 24
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Featuring a cover by R. Crumb, and cat art--no, really. Also "Factory," by Antler
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Fall 1979, No. 23
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Featuring articles "Ocean Arks," John Todd; "Whole Sea Catalog (or something like that)," George Putz and Peter H. Spectre. A very ocean-centric issue, indeed!
📄 Read Digital Copyr. crumb george putz phil conkling gerald wick joe upton john todd ann medlock slim van der ryn anne herbert sheila benson peter blue cloud alternative energy climate science marine ecology american development ocean power halophytes ocean arks traditional boatmaking apprenticeship kayaking oceanography fisheries native american storytelling book review essay letter -
Summer 1979, No. 22
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Hot topic of this issue: Treelife. "Skidding," by Will Baker. "Plant a Tree for England," E.F. Schumacher. "Ask the Women," Carol Van Strum.
📄 Read Digital Copypaul ehrlich peter warshall russell schweickart carol van strum art kleiner r. crumb peter laurie jim eggert sim van der ryn three mile island frugality community gardening watershed management water conservation seed saving environmental restoration small-scale farming feminist organizing spaceships solar heating alternative housing aging dungeons & dragons book review essay interview -
Spring 1979, No. 21
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This issue features articles on genetic toxicity. "Human Harm to Human DNA," Stewart Brand. "A Guide to Worrying Intelligently About Having a Baby," Susan Stern. "The Organic Movement Meets the Real World," Richard Nilsen. And finally, 63 strange people tell what they are reading--378 strange magazines is what.
📄 Read Digital Copypeter warshall bruce ames carol van strum susan stern judy chicago art kleiner r. crumb peter laurie alternative energy genetic toxicity herbicide reproductive health biohazard politics of cancer nutrition pesticide regulation environmental pollutants strip mining supreme court animal rights magazine culture book review essay interview -
Fall 1978, No. 19.
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"This version of Journal for the Protection of All Beings (originally published by City Lights Books in the Sixties as "A Victionary & Revolutionary Review") was conceived when Stewart Brand suggested a rebirth of it disguised as a CoEvolution Quarterly. We aimed at an issue centered on how to liberate mind & body and protect endangered species (including ourselves) from pathogenic industrial civilization.
📄 Read Digital Copylawrence ferlinghetti peter warshall michael mcclure gary snyder peter coyote david meltzer robert curtis jack kornfield allen ginsberg franklin rosemont robert duncan forestry endangered species liberation surrealism native american perspectives animal liberation poetry as activism bioregionalism environmental protection nuclear politics atomic energy poetry essay manifesto -
Summer 1976
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In this issue: Margaret Mead fighting with Gregory Bateson. Jacques Cousteau at NASA. Wendell Berry fighting with CQ. Ursula Le Guin on Menopause. Joni Mitchell in high school. Car Sauer ahead of his time. J.D. Smith with the Hoedads.
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Spring 1976
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Includes invited opinion pieces from a variety of voices on the previous issue's special focus on O'Neill's Space Colonies. Featuring opinions from Ken Kesey, Lynn Margulis, Carl Sagan (he prefers "space cities"), Richard Brautigan, Wendell Berry, and Buckminster Fuller, to name a few.
📄 Read Digital Copypaul ehrlich anne ehrlich peter warshall steve baer gerard o'neill stewart brand gregory bateson gary snyder j. baldwin lynn margulis wendell berry russell schweickart whole systems alternative energy space colonization material culture wind power organic farming composting metalworking dome architecture women's health cuban revolution poetry book review essay -
Fall 1975
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Features an article title "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O’Neill, as well as an interview. O'Neill's space colony designs, precursors to the “O’Neill cylinders,” are depicted decades later in Interstellar (2014). A striking example of speculative engineering crossing into cinematic myth. Also features a conversation with anthropologist and systems theorist, Gregory Bateson and Edmund G Brown, Jr., past Governor of California.
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Summer 1974
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Features articles such as "Understanding Wholesome Ehrlich's Guide to the Apocalypse: FOOD," Anne H. and Paul R. Ehrlich. "Gravity Engines and the Diving Engine," Steve Baer. "Bookmaking Access," Robin Rycraft.
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