Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

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.