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Stewart Brand, Co-founder and President, Long Now Foundation

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2009

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

City Planet Stewart Brand, Co-founder and President, Long Now Foundation Brand will discuss how increasing urbanization is accelerating economic development with remarkable speed. The consequences will be profound, he believes. Are we prepared? Brand has focused on such subjects as digital media, education and architecture. He’s perhaps best known for founding the Whole Earth Catalog. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on June 14, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do? But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better

0:29.0

your story. Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of

0:36.9

Climate One. Climate One brings together thought Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.

0:38.2

Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world

0:41.1

to advance solutions to global warming.

0:44.0

The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public.

0:48.8

Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.

0:57.6

Good evening. I'm Bill Grant with the Environment and Natural Resources Forum here at the

1:02.6

Commonwealth Club, and I want to welcome you to tonight's event with Stuart Brand.

1:07.7

This event is co-sponsored by Inforum, a division of the club for people in their 20s and 30s.

1:13.6

Over the past four decades, Invincible Rebel Rouser, Stuart Brand has spent time anticipating

1:20.6

cultural revolutions and launching a medley of new ideas, movements, organizations, and communities.

1:28.3

He is the founder and publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, co-founder of the Well, and founder

1:35.3

of the Long Now Foundation, among other ventures.

1:38.3

In the process, he has turned conventional thinking upside down.

1:43.3

Today, Brand spends considerable time talking about the city planet,

1:47.8

a term used to describe the eventual urbanization of the world

1:50.9

and what the implications will be for human innovation.

1:56.6

Stuart?

2:03.6

Thank you. Thank you. How's our sound?

2:06.6

Is that okay?

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