Rethinking Green

Environmental icon Stewart Brand encourages us all to be more daring as we strive for sustainability.

7:00p Thursday 10 Mar 2011, Oregon State University

Stewart Brand

Creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, founder of The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, and author of several books including Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary, Stewart Brand rejects the dogmatic messages of Green fundamentalism and welcome genuine debate, experimentation, and common sense.

He explains why we need to be more daring as we strive for sustainability, and encourage us to embrace sensible technological advances as environmental stewardship opportunities.

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