Portola Institute

The Portola Institute was a "nonprofit educational foundation" founded[5] in Menlo Park, California in 1966 [6] by Dick Raymond.[7] The Portola institute helped to develop other organizations such as The Briarpatch Society[8] and Bob Albrecht's People's Computer Company.[9] It was also the publisher of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog beginning with the first issue in 1968.[10][7] The first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog notes that the catalog is one division of The Portola Institute[11] and that other activities of the Institute include: "computer education for all grade levels, simulation games for classroom use, new approaches to music education, Ortega Park Teachers Laboratory." [6] Raymond and Brand later collaborated to form the Point Foundation.[7]

Portola Institute
Nonprofit
FoundedMenlo Park, California (1966)
Headquarters1115 Merrill St. Menlo Park, California U.S.
Key people
Dick Raymond[1][2][3][4]

Notes
  1. https://altaonline.com/access-to-success/
  2. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html
  3. https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.01.05/dormouse-0522.html
  4. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/246/John-Markoff-WHAT-THE-DORMOUSE-S-page01.html
  5. https://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/04/comments-on-the.html
  6. Stewart Brand. Whole Earth Catalog. Fall 1968: Inside back cover.
  7. Andrew G. Kirk. Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007): 70.
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311063135/http://www.briarpatch.net/history-1983.html
  9. https://hclemuseum.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/interview-with-bob-albrecht-by-jon-cappetta-2/
  10. https://www.halfmoonbaymemories.com/2008/06/01/1968-whole-earth-catalog-is-born/
  11. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/07/archives/dropouts-howto-dropouts-howto.html

References
  • Brand, Stewart. Whole Earth Catalog. Fall 1968.
  • Kirk, Andrew G. Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007.
  • Turner, Fred From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press. 2006. ISBN 0-226-81741-5.


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