Our Berkeley store opened in 1969, inspired by but independent of The Whole Earth Catalog.
That is, the Edmund catalog was virtually a Whole Earth Catalog for items related to scientific fields.
Their work centered around the prospering environmental movement and mirrored the work of other projects like The Whole Earth Catalog.
Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog, saw the game played by young hackers at Stanford's computer center in the early 1960's.
Stewart Brand and The Whole Earth Catalog are both subjects of interest to scholars.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.
Whole Earth Catalog, various issues, 1968-1998.
Stewart Brand, the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog, called much of the work "bright and swirly and filled with meaning."
The wide popularity of The Whole Earth Catalogs, starting in 1968, was quite influential among the younger, hands-on, activist generation of the 1960s and 1970s.