Point Foundation (environment)

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POINT Foundation
Company type Nonprofit
Founder Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
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United States of America

The POINT Foundation was a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond. [1] POINT was established in 1971, for the role of distributing funds deriving from profits of the Whole Earth Catalogs to innovative and promising ventures. [1]

The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC), was an American magazine and product catalog. [2]

The foundation's board members were united by concern for the natural environment. Besides Brand and Raymond, board members included computer engineer Bill English, who became the co-inventor of the computer mouse, and Huey Johnson, former western-regional director of the Nature Conservancy. [1] One of POINT's first large grants, in 1972, enabled a group of environmental scientists, activists, and Native Americans to attend the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. [3] : 57 

POINT took over publication of the WEC from its original publisher, the Portola Institute, by 1980, when the publication had swelled to a 452-page edition. As well, the foundation published a number of mostly periodical offshoots of the WEC. [1] POINT was also a co-owner of an early online discussion platform titled The WELL. [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kirk, Andrew G (2007). Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press. pp. 120–122. ISBN   978-0700615452.
  2. ↑ Turner, Fred (2006). From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. p. 294. ISBN   0-226-81741-5.
  3. ↑ Brand, Stewart (2009). Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (first ed.). New York: Viking. ISBN   9780670021215.
  4. ↑ Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. p. 142.



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