Portola Institute

Portola Institute

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name = Portola Institute

type = Nonprofit
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foundation = Menlo Park, California (1966)
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location = 1115 Merrill St. Menlo Park, California U.S.
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key_people =Dick Raymond
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The Portola Institute was a "nonprofit educational foundation" founded in Menlo Park, California in 1966 Stewart Brand. "Whole Earth Catalog". Fall 1968: Inside back cover.] by Dick Raymond.Andrew G. Kirk. "Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism" (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007): 70.] The Portola institute helped to develop other organizations such as "The Briarpatch Society". It was also the publisher of Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth Catalog" beginning with the first issue in 1968. The first issue of "The Whole Earth Catalog" notes that the catalog is one division of "The Portola Institute" and that other activities of the Institute include: "computer education for all grade levels, simulation games for classroom use, new approaches to music education, Ortage Park Teacher's Laboratory." Raymond and Brand later collaborated to form the Point Foundation.

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References

*Brand, Stewart. "Whole Earth Catalog". Fall 1968.
*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://www.globalgiving.com/aboutus/media/redherring.html Global Giving] - Peter Schwartz
* [http://www.well.com/~mp/host.html Well.com] - Michael Phillips
* [http://www.briarpatch.net/ Briarpatch Network]


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