{"id":27527,"date":"2010-08-07T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-non-radical-environmentalist-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:26","slug":"the-non-radical-environmentalist-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-non-radical-environmentalist-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Radical Environmentalist | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-nonradical-environmentalist.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11468\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/edb57_stewart-brand.jpg\" alt=\"stewart-brand\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Yesterday at Techonomy&ndash;before the&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-inventor-and-the-impresario-crowdsourcing-some-big-questions.html\">fun started<\/a>&ndash;we heard from&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\">Stewart Brand<\/a>,&nbsp;famed founder of the&nbsp;<em>Whole Earth Catalog <\/em>and author most recently of&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670021210?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chriscmooneyc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0670021210\">Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto<\/a><\/em>. With his latest book, Brand is pioneering a new brand of environmentalism that discards some of the movement&rsquo;s anti-technology habits, and reacquaints the green impulse with an openness to innovations that may be the key to solving our biggest problem&mdash;climate change.<\/p><p>According to Brand, environmentalism has a &ldquo;legacy resistance&rdquo; to nuclear power, and to transgenic crops or GMOs. In other words, the resistance isn&rsquo;t really based on strong evidence of dangers, so much as an instinctive distrust of certain types of meddling with &ldquo;nature.&rdquo;&hellip;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-nonradical-environmentalist.html\">READ ON<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O9bj2YNpuJUzHuXrPA1xte1pFX4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/edb57_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O9bj2YNpuJUzHuXrPA1xte1pFX4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/edb57_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/edb57_Cx7dO_GqHqk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at Techonomy&ndash;before the&nbsp;fun started&ndash;we heard from&nbsp;Stewart Brand,&nbsp;famed founder of the&nbsp;Whole Earth Catalog and author most recently of&nbsp;Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. With his latest book, Brand is pioneering a new brand of environmentalism that discards some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-non-radical-environmentalist-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}