Point Foundation (environment)
- Point Foundation (environment)
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founder = Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond
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The Point Foundation was a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond.[Andrew G. Kirk. "Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism" (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007): 120-122.] It published works related to the "Whole Earth Catalog". [Fred Turner. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism." (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006): 294.] It was also a co-owner of "The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link). [Fred Turner. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism." (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006): 142.] "]Notes
References
*Kirk, Andrew G. "Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism". Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007.
* Turner, Fred cite book
year = 2006
title = From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
publisher = University of Chicago Press
id = ISBN 0-226-81741-5
External links
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n69/ai_9205724/print?tag=artBody;col1 The future of Point: a growing dialog - the Point Foundation]
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