Steve Job's Google of the 60s: Whole Earth + homestead tour
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog "one of the bibles of my generation". He went on to explain in his Stanford commencement speech in 2005, "It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions".
The Whole Earth Catalog was a kind of "unofficial handbook of the counterculture". It was, pre-Internet, a way for anyone anywhere to tap into a global economy. Founder and editor Stewart Brand set out to create a catalog- like the then-very-practical-and-universal catalog L.L. Bean- that would showcase all of the great tools of the world to help anyone do things for themselves or learn about big ideas.
Lloyd Kahn was the Shelter editor of the catalog. Kahn, an insurance broker-turned-builder, leveraged his experience with Whole Earth and began to publish his own books. First, he wrote very popular books on dome building. Kahn had become "the spokesman for the counterculture on domes" (his dome home even appeared in Life Magazine), but he took the books out of print when he decided the building style just wasn't practical and "I didn't want any more domes on my kharma".
In 1974 Kahn took down his dome and replaced it with a more traditional handmade home. "Built stud-frame house using recycled lumber, doors, windows," he writes in his 2004 book Home Work, "Relief somehow to discover old ways can work best."
Today, Lloyd and his wife Lesley Creed run their own homestead in Bolinas, California where they tend an extensive organic garden and bantam chickens, grind their own wheat, make their own sourdough, spin their own wool, and continue to build their own structures (most recently, a chicken coop with a living roof).
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The Whole Earth Catalog was indeed the internet of its day. I lived in a tipi bought from a supplier in TWEC. Bought tools via mail order from suppliers in TWEC. Bought homesteading books from booksellers listed in TWEC. Dreamed of peace, love, staying high... alas, alcohol/drug use claimed a lot of us--achieving sobriety did not mesh with TWEC ideals--35 yrs later I'm embracing them again, glad for sobriety, children, grandchildren, health, but sad for the world. Let's remake it. I'm in.
Oh my, what a nice and beautiful place to live, plus I can fell all the love vibes from the 60's, damn I wish they were my grandpas.
Lloyd has inspired thousands with his books and his lifestyle I have followed him for years keep up the great work thanks for sharing
Excellent...this has to be my favorite of all of your videos I've seen so far. Reasonable people!
Amazing history. This channel keeps me in awe of the creativity and passion of people
I find a certain kind of comfort from listening to this wise people.
Great documentary. Keep up the great works. These folks know what is important in life.
Fantastic. Very inspiring and learning a lot listening to this guy. Thanks
I miss those times. Time to explore, and sharing with each other.
Reading The Last Whole Earth Catalog _literally_ changed my life forever. Thanks for this lovely interview.
This sort of lifestyle is something I so desperately want. Being able to live simply. Self-sufficiency with time to put energy into the things you want and the people you love. I feel the generation I am growing up in is based upon the idea of demand and supply. Things cheap and cheerful without enough emphasis on quality and workmanship :( University applications are coming up for me but I wonder.. it just seems like a commitment to society, working tirelessly to survive and pay off dept
@Ariebingo six years later, what'd you end up doing?
I want to go live with these people for a year or two.
I am right there with ya! They need to do workshops!
Lloyd Kahn is right when he says that they could live on 20$ a month and that they had plenty of tieme That's not something possible today, but still, it was a courageous endeavor. We have much to learn from their worldview. They were truly building something, not just chairs and tables and houses, but a way of living in the world. May this inspire us to build a better world.
Thank you for the great video.
I have that Whole Earth Catalog..still. We used to get Mother Earth News all the time,too. I'm in the beginning of scaling back and trying my hand with small area and container gardening.
I enjoyed the Catalog so much, it was part of my growing up.
Thanx so much for your vids, especially this one.
These videos remind me that we have forgotten our humanity....everyone in my generation was destined for a cubical.....to be a "knowledge worker" I think about Egypt... and how we dont really know how the pryimids were built...we have forgotten how to build grand things by hand....and in a very sad future we are going to have to relearn so many things.
I have both issues of the WEC and in excellent condition. Wish a new version came out. It would sell. Great to see your still ticking
Still have mine, too.
We had the "Whole Earth Truck Store" that allowed you to order whatever they had a catalog for. It was a great place to browse "wish books", and something like an "internet marketplace" of its era.
I had a Whole Earth Catalog 1970 in the 70s when I was in my teens and twenties, and it was an inspiration. It really opened my eyes as a young man to see that you could do a lot for yourself and didn't have to depend on others for a whole range of things, including your happiness. It helped me discover that the more you do for yourself, the happier you *can* -- not necessarily *will* -- be...but at least your chances are better. I think the reason a lot of people are depressed these days is we no longer do things like grow our own food, build our own shelter, make our own clothes, etc. Plus, the work many people get paid to do these days is meaningless and not rewarding -- it only provides an income while someone else profits handsomely. I agree that it's not possible to be totally independent and self-sustaining, but the more you can do for yourself, I believe the better your chances of being a well-adjusted person. Get some tools and build something. Start really small and keep it simple. I did, and eventually ended up taking down and relocating an old barn. I'd never done any real carpentry before that and because I worked with an experienced carpenter, everything turned out great. It gave me the confidence to try a lot of other projects since then. Have fun and don't be afraid to try.
I can't tell you how delighted I am to see this. The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, Whole Earth Review were incredibly ground-breaking publications that need to be revisited and studied. I have the complete set of CoEvolution Quarterly/WER, and I still find great ideas and penetrating insights on their pages. I only have a few of the Catalogs, which I treasure.
Thank you for giving these marvelous publications public exposure. We need their ideas as much now as we did when they first appeared--maybe even moreso.
Your the person who inspired me to homestead 3 acres deep in the Ozark hills back in the late 70's.What an experience it was. Thank you!
Every couple of years it seems, I circle back to this wonderful film ... when I need a little sanity! Thanks again, Kirsten.
This is very interesting. I love this episode.
awesome docu. thanks for doing this
Great video!
I love Lloyd Kahn. What a legend. Thanks for the inspiring video!
So Amazing! Thanks for youtubing this!!!
Truly wonderful.
Thank you so much for this episode... Enjoyed it a lot. Can't wait to get my hands on his new book!
Best one of this topic for a long time. Thank you.
Very nice, thanks.
All of these tiny home and self-sufficient, self-reliant videos are just so beautiful and inspirational. I'm 26 and I can whole-heartely say that I cannot wait for the day I can free myself of these corporate and commercial chains and live my life the way I intend, and hope that someday many more will follow.
And care of the dying, industrial waste sanitation, research and innovation, school district maintenance budgets, the courts . Are you going to free up your time by not contributing to those corporate and commercial chains?
@@lb9147 I’m 36 now and learning that not everyone is perfect and that most have good intentions depending on the situation. Sometimes you just have to support necessary corporations to combat those issues.
I love this. World's coolest ex-insurance broker ;P
Lloyd Kahn was one of the editors of the book that changed my life.
I wish I could like this video twice! How lovely
I love your videos so much! They are so good!!!!!!!
this man is a genius!
The Whole Earth Catalogue and Shelter were a huge inspiration and influence on my life as the last of the Baby Boomers. Born 1959 . I am an American expat Jazz pianist living in Copenhagen Dk. off the grid. We were the Captain Kangaroo not Howdy Doody gen. We all had 60s envy but were lucky to have all the successful land based communities and Co-op's and Anti-nuclear Support groups to cushion our wrestles search for America and community belonging.
Not only was the Whole Earth Catalog "pre-Google," it was also "pre-Amazon." They had all kinds of cool stuff in it that you couldn't find anywhere else at that time (except, maybe, for Lehman's Hardware in Kidron, OH).
this man is a master
It was the single most influential element (the Whole Earth Catalog) (aside from jazz) in my early autodidactic evolution. It's impossible to convey the complex modulation of memories you've set in motion. All of those lost people and influences Bucky,The Tao of Physics, Alan Watts, this mans work and all those alternative communities associated with that antinuclear movement ready to welcome all us post hippie pilgrims in that very different pre-internet world. Yeah thanks for this.
Wow! This requires a new thinking mindset...or really using and building on the old mindset. I am blown away! The wife is so intteligent and the husband should start a mentoring service for real men.
This is my dream .
I still have my mothers copy of the Tassajara Bread Book he mentioned from the catalogue...classic. My fond connection to those days as a kid.
Life seems so much simpler living this way, I wish I could do it.
Lloyd is truly one of my heroes
Closest I've seen to utopia.
I also needed to add on, $5 for a copy of the Fall 1968 Whole Earth Catalog, that's a lot of money for 1968. I just used an online inflation calculator, it's about $36 in today's money (2017). So you're paying $36 in today's money, or $5 in 1968, to get a brand new copy of the first WEC back in '68.
Ben Miler - $5 in 1968. I was thinking the same thing. That was a lot of scratch.
As a long-time Lloyd Kahn fan, I find it funny to see these advertisements trying to sell me crap, placed right before and after his video. What he is saying flies in the face of rampant consumerism.
Go Lloyd!
I very glad to see it . I love you sir . you save it good thanks
This channel is so great
love this. thanks for posting
great inspiring life-style!
I once had an a Whole Earth Catalog. I joined the Army. I dragged my catalog to England where the U.S. Army sent me. The paper of my catalog went to mush. in the U.K. climate. To me it was better than any bible I ever owned. I don't know why they have not published a new catalog for 2021. Maybe they had too many law suits against them. Maybe everyone just got so rich they just retired.
@Ariebingo I agree 100 percent. This is why I am changing my life one small step at a time to get closer to how I want to live. Go for it if it is something that you want then do it!
Very inspiring on how to be DIY, everything in the house looks it like had some sort of story.
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Look at all those chickens!
Truly inspirational.
thank you
beautiful, brilliant.
Beautiful house. I bet Christopher Alexander ("A Pattern Language") would like it.
that was awesome thanks for posting that
Wow! An original Fall 1968 copy of the Whole Earth Catalog! I have never seen a copy of that issue offered, be it eBay or AbeBooks, never mind any used book store. I own two issues of the WEC, the Fall 1969 issue, and the super-thick The Last Whole Earth Catalog from 1971. They show their age, but all the pages and covers are intact. Lloyd Kahn's copy of the 1968 WEC sure got a lot of use, I hate to see what a copy goes for these days, especially one in better shape. I was born in 1972 so the WEC is before my time, but that never stopped me from getting info on that era and getting a couple used copies of the WEC.
What an awesome way to live!
Wow, a lot of good lessons to be learnt, not radical, just smart with a lot of thought put into it
@Ariebingo I couldn't agree with you more. I feel an inherent need to avoid debt at all costs, and one day i realized that it's not so different now as it was in the 60s, it just depends on how much you're willing to give up. You could probably live a comfortably life on minimum wage. The problem is people want everything all at once, i think in a few years this diy ethic will start to resonate and really take hold of our society. People change when their actions start to hurt their pockets.
Another great video! Thx.
AMAZING
thank you so much for uploading :)
love the house
Love his story.
This video is amazing, as always! I don't know how you find all these people but you do an incredible job. It would be interesting if you could make more urban tiny homes. Country side is very nice, but I think urban tiny homes are more challenging in a way that you (most of the time) can't build your home, you need to convert an already existing place!
april 1970 first earth day...domes & ecology...whole earth catalog...grateful dead...50 years later a retired conservation engineer....the catalog was the holy grail.....
nice video, I did a similar one on a couple living at Cape Tribulation in Australia
Man, I would need these folks on Skype if I were colonizing other worlds/planets! So much to learn from them!
Yep, I grew up with the WEC lying around and a funky home-made home, chickens, on an acreage my folks bought for $80 an acre, paid it all off in five years including the house they built. We also grew a lot of food. Like Kahn, my folks figured things out, how to not work for the man, and be self-reliant to such a larger degree than my friends and their families who lived in town, had cable t.v. and ate Pop Tarts. It's just sad now how enslaved so many people are.
I had one and I loved looking at it and enjoying the story spread thru the pages. I would still have it but unfortunately it grew legs and walked off with someone else.
I guess you could say it all with three words: Repair, Reuse & Recycle. Although, let's face it, the hippie mottoes of days gone by will not cure you of cancer, or take us to the stars or pacify your kids. Everything changes and nothing stays the same. Nostalgia can be fun and even interesting to discover, yet one should never get stuck in the past but live life today :)
Had it, great catalog.
VIDEO FIX NEEDED ALERT...... the video portion kept stalling out while the dialogue continued moving along. Tried several stop ' starts.
Lovely piece, Kirsten. Thanks. Ended up just winging it, clicking along on the timeline. Memory lane. lol
wise people
love it !
Working hard for yourself rather than routing your effort though a monterey system is a personal aim but as this guy says you still need a little money for something. The hardest part is getting enough money to buy a plot of land. This is especially hard in the U.K. as suitable plots are so expensive.
Lloyd - love your books - have all which are in print. We are building an earthship in Chile - the website is innerawakening co uk - we shall be blogging it from January.
"Actually working instead of figuring out how not to work" is a result of modern culture not any generation's outlook on labor.
Watching this kind of stuff makes me really sad to the point of getting my eyes wet, there are so many ways to live without doing any damage to the earth at all and still the people do not understand. Millions of lives wasted to chase an illusion, it is so sad.
love it! my only problem is finding land to do that on.
Nice!
I remember seeing that issue of life. I thought that dome was so cool. Still Do. Those photos took me back. I'm hoping to purchase some chickens to start a flock in 2 years.
any thoughts on the amount required for a kind space to chicken ratio?
Back! to the Future!
Great post! I was wondering, is his "Tiny Homes" book is available yet??
gorgeous
What the fuck had it got to do with Steve Jobs, other than he made a comment about it? Lloyd Kahn does NOT need his endorsement!
this piece has a little bit of buzz kill in it. its a bit of a reality check
Monsanto hate you ;) great work.
Fabulous video! I appreciate that he talks about living a partially self-sustaining lifestyle-- not a completely reject modern culture but look at it critically and see if we can do/create something ourselves. I've had people tell me that gardening and canning do not save money (considering the labor involved). It's not about saving $. The Creeds and your filming explain this so well. Thank you!
It was like the Sears catalog but with richer content...
Seaweed sauerkraut? I want the recipe!
Wow great video... I'm assuming he didn't get permits to build those buildings, did he?