Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

Odum Witold Rybczynski Karl Hess Christopher Swan Orville Schell Ivan Illich Wendell Berry Ursula K.  T. Stewart Brand (born December 14 1938 in Rockford Illinois) is an American writer best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

He founded a number of organizations including The WELL the Global Business Network and the Long Now Foundation. Stewart Brand (born December 14 1938 in Rockford Illinois) is an American writer best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is the author of several books most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.