Undercurrents (magazine)

Undercurrents magazine was started as a medium for radical views on scientific and technological subjects; it was published in England between 1973 and 1984: 63 editions altogether. For much of that period it appeared every two months and the circulation peaked at 7,000 in the late 1970s. It existed to promote Alternative technology - an infinitely elastic concept embracing almost every subject that so-called 'straight' scientists weren't interested in.

Some of those subjects - such as leylines or dowsing - remain on the outer fringes of scientific endeavour. But others, like renewable energy and waste-recycling, have become the conventional wisdom of the 21st century. Recently two of its editors have started to republish the magazine on the World Wide Web; they state: ‘The aim of this site is to make the entire contents of Undercurrents available to future generations. Other editions will be added in due course, but we have started with Undercurrents 9 (Jan-Feb 1975) because it dealt with the issue of nuclear power which, 30 years later, has returned to haunt us all.'

External links

* [http://www.intertype.co.uk/undercurrents/index.html Undercurrents: the magazine of radical science and people’s technology ]
* [http://www.cat.org.uk/information/aboutcat.tmpl?init=1 Centre for Alternative Technology]