Dan Flores
speaker
4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As Brand put it, these were college dropouts who didn't know how anything worked.
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They had not been raised on a farm or a ranch.
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So that was what the Whole Earth Catalog was.
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It turned out what it really did is what YouTube does now.
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It conferred agency.
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In a famous commencement speech at Stanford, Apple founder Steve Jobs said Brand's book was, as he put it, sort of like Google in paperback form 35 years before Google came along.
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With its discussions of building and tools and solar panels and composting toilets, the whole earth catalog made a 20th century version of living on the Western landscape possible.
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Unlike Western homesteaders in the decades after the Civil War, though, people like me had no need or particular desire to call on pieces of American earth to make them money, which had been a primary function of American homesteads throughout our history.
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Not that there weren't plenty of people who wanted to be self-sufficient off the grid,
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to garden and raise chickens and ducks and goats or have horses, and if they were couples, maybe engage in a kind of proto-tradwifism on their modern version of a Western homestead.
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But there was also a different way of doing things, which is how bioregional place living came to be.
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Bioregionalism was part of the whole earth philosophy from the first.
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But as an idea for living, it had its genesis in the early 1970s with the writings of a Canadian named Alan Van Newkirk.
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Various bioregional prophets, many of them Californians, like the famed poet Gary Snyder, and academics such as Raymond Dasman and Stephanie Mills, were regular speakers on campuses like the University of Montana in the early 2000s.
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In their various publications and a couple of journals, one called Co-Evolution Quarterly from 1974 to 1984 published essays on living sustainably on the land, while Raise the Stakes was the voice of a San Francisco group called the Planet Drum Foundation.
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In these journals, a bioregion was a geographic idea defined by natural characteristics, including watersheds, landforms, soils, geological qualities, native plants and animals, climate and weather.
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That, and this is a quote from the bioregional prophets, includes human beings as a species in the interplay of these natural characteristics.
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As Raise the Stakes editor Peter Berg described it, bioregional living was a kind of spiritual identification with a particular kind of country and its wild nature that's the basis for the kind of land care the world so definitely needs.
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In the 1980s and 1990s,
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The field of geography was particularly taken with the movement and what one geographer described as its remarkably sensitive literate group of adherents who were the architects of a new popular grassroots geography of living on the land.
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