Learning, Resources, Cool Tools Finally, the Whole Earth Catalog and its descendants - over 130 publications - are now available online.

Founded in 1974 by the staff of the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly lasted 10 years as a small circulation magazine whose titular founding idea was coined by zoologist Paul Ehrlich and botanist Peter Raven to account for events that neither of their separate disciplines could explain. The moral of the co-evolutionary perspective is its imperative to always look one level larger and one level finer (at least) than where you are, and to see clear through your cycles.

When I was 17 I did two things that would set the course of my life: I took LSD, and I read the Whole Earth Catalog. In the ensuing years the use of psychedelics for learning, healing and spiritual awakening has become mainstream news. But the Catalog, in spite of its similar capacity to open and widen the doors of perception, has all but disappeared, exiled by its form of ink on inexpensive paper, to the libraries of a few and the memories of a few more. Until now. Last Friday, on the 55th anniversary of the publication of the original Whole Earth Catalog, Gray Area and the Internet Archive made the Catalog freely available online via the Whole Earth Index, a website bringing together more than 130 Whole Earth Catalog-related publications, ranging from some of the earliest Catalogs published in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the 2002 issues of Whole Earth Magazine. When Debbie and I met in 1982 we both subscribed to the Co-Evolution Quarterly. So that we wouldn't have to tussle over who got to read it first, when we moved in together we decided to keep both subscriptions. Now we can both read it at the same time. Article: The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog Website: The Whole Earth Index