A Public Proposal: Three Mile Island Historic Nuclear Park and Planned Community by Jay M. Critchley
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We're in a 1920s Economy Interview with Paul Hawken: Just like in the Roaring ’20s, we are in a decade that is shifting its economic bearings. If we Don't take advantage of this moment of great change, we'll crash.
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You Are the Customer, You Are the Company by Paul Hawken: Guidelines for running a business as a service to customers, and perceiving customers as a service to business.
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Cartoon History of the United States, Chapter IV by Larry Gonick: An “insufficiently reverent” account of early American radicals, and how they got everything started with boycotts.
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Art Into Space by Robert Horvitz: Now that NASA allows non-scientific payloads to be launched into orbit, artists are sending up their dreams.
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Living With Aids by Matt Herron: No one is safe from the deadly AIDS virus, because it’s not merely a gay/sexual disease— it’s a contemporary human plague.
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Saint Herpes by Stephanie Mills: With herpes, it’s not the physical discomfort that is so painful, but the change in one’s sexual behavior.
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Being Poor in America: Poem by Cathy Naylor
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Reflections on a Chinese Garden by John Visvader: How we view gardens mirrors our approach to wilderness. Unlike our own environmental theology, the philosophy of Chinese gardens doesn’t demand a uniform code of ethics.
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Four Pairs by Dan Hemenway: Eight principles for designing a system that works with nature.
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The Health Hazards of Computers edited by Art Kleiner: A guide to worrying intelligently about the possible health effects of computer video display terminals.
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The World’s Most Achievable World Records: Photo story by Ron Jones Here are the world records for most tennis balls stuffed in a T-shirt and other unusual achievements. If you can’t break an existing world record, make up one of your own.
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Things Which Get Lost by Carole Malkin: An old journal from a Russian grandfather is the kind of thing that can only be preserved by altering it.
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Urban Legends in the Making by Jan Brunvand: Popularly assumed to be true, these stories may be nothing more than modern folk tales. Write the author if you’ve heard, or told, one.
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DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS
SMALL BUSINESS
Small Business Reporter
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Catalog Age
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Home Office
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Sideline Business
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WHOLE SYSTEMS
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
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The Year Ahead
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Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics
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The Source
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Ancestry’s Catalog
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POLITICS
The Crowded Earth
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Co-op America
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Catalyst Newsletters
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Third World Quarterly
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The Sixties Papers
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COMMUNITY
Rats, Lice and History
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Plagues and Peoples
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Advances
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Walk Me to the Water
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Teaching Aids at Low Cost
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Lefthander’s Catalog
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Hitchcock Wide Shoes for Men
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LAND USE
Green River Tools
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The Garden Seed Inventory
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The House of Boughs
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agAccess
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The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests
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Forest Planning
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The Forest Farmer’s Handbook
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Land-Saving Action
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Ecological Fruit Production in the North
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Secrets of Plant Propagation
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SOFT TECHNOLOGY
Alternative Environments Natural Pools
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Gengas
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Practical & Decorative Woodworking Joints
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Plastering Skills
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Airparts
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Safe-T-Sweep
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Armstrong Washer Specialties
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Indoor Air Quality and Human Health
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Slip-In-Panels
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Superinsulated Building Newsletter
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The Microwave Debate
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NOMADICS
The Amphibious Hiking Sandal
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DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS _
Igas Island Outdoor Gear
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Gorp, Glop & Glue Stew
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Europe in 22 Days
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Europe Map
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Camping and Caravanning in Europe
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Well-Traveled Books by Scott Thybony
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Kayak Touring by Wayward Watson
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One Day Celestial Navigation
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The Weather Wizard’s Cloud Book
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LEARNING
Continuing the Tradition: a review of Jewish alternative magazines by Ya‘qub ibn Yusuf
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Grand Street
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The Women’s Review of Books
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Daedalus Books
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West With the Night
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Finding Money for College The Scholarship Book 0
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Kites for Everyone
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The Penguin Book of Kites
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Kites by Mail
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J. A. Henckels Knives
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Atlanta Cutlery
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Smoky Mountain Knife Works
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Kestrel Crooked Knife
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Dolan’s Sports
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Cabela’s
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Asian World of Martial Arts
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ComBow
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Good Movies by Sheila Benson
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COMMUNICATIONS
Vitali Import Company
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Elderly Instruments
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Ferree’s Tools
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Shar Products
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QRS
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The Guitar Owner’s Manual
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Homespun Tapes
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Recordings of Experimental Music
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OPtion
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BACKSCATTER
Echoes from readers back to Whole Earth Review
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GATE FIVE ROAD
Gossip
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New Subscription Address
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Back issues/further issues
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“Or Whole Earth Access”
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“Or Computer Literacy”
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Abbreviation Glossary
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Unclassifieds Are Back
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WER Node
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Puzzle Answer
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Masthead
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Financial Report
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Thank You
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WHOLE EARTH SOFTWARE CATALOG
ORGANIZING
THE SMART INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM
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ANALYZING
STATGRAPHICS
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ETC.
FAMILY ROOTS
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Quinsept
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HARDWARE
Terminal Shock
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The Skeptical Consumer’s Guide to Used Computers
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Before You Buy a Used Computer
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Computer Classified Bluebook
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The Plain English Repair and Maintenance Guide for Home Computers