Talks

An evening program marking fifty years since the first Whole Earth Catalog. Brand hosted conversations between original Catalog contributors and contemporary thinkers.

A conversation exploring Brand’s Pace Layers framework — civilization as layers moving at different speeds.

Stewart Brand explores DeExtinction: using genomic tech to bring back lost species like the Passenger Pigeon and Mammoth to restore ecosystems, shifting conservation from a focus on crisis to one of hope and active planetary repair.

One of Brand’s most-viewed talks. Opens with an elegy for Martha, the last passenger pigeon, then makes the case for de-extinction.

A one-hour presentation arguing that environmentalists must embrace nuclear power, dense urbanization, genetic engineering, and geoengineering.

Brand’s own SALT seminar laying out the case for ecopragmatism.

Brand proposes that environmentalists rethink cities, nuclear power, genetic engineering, and geoengineering.

A talk about the 10,000 Year Clock and The Long Now Foundation’s mission to foster long-term thinking.

Brand co-wrote and presented this six-part series examining how buildings adapt over time. Full series available on YouTube.