Whole Earth Films

04/22/2018

If you’re at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend, please come say hi at Booth 073!

03/31/2018

The first 21 Alta fans who post a photo of themselves with a copy of Alta to our page by Wednesday, April 4, will win a pair of tickets one of several San Francisco International Film Festival films sponsored by Alta.

12/17/2017

Bay Area author, artist and activist Obi Kaufmann spent a solid year on his richly illustrated "California Field Atlas" - and sellers can't seem to keep it on the shelves.

11/16/2017

Santa Monica Bay is a hot spot for the species

11/11/2017

The nation’s foremost architect designs startling buildings: swooping, glimmering structures. He demands attention, experimenting with new forms, materials and techniques. But his true goal is emotion, like high art or great engineering. Frank Gehry believes in architecture that inspires and changes...

10/27/2017

Organizers of the San Francisco International Film Festival are about to launch their annual Doc Stories, a festival devoted to non-fiction filmmaking.

10/21/2017

Astronomers are over the moon for a 130 million-year-old collision between two stars

09/27/2017

Will Hearst III, the onetime editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, is self-funding a magazine for California — to be called The Journal of Alta California. “It’s not a Hearst publicat…

05/09/2017

Naturally occurring gene drive systems rig the inheritance game and cause some genes to be preferentially inherited, "driving" them out into the popul

05/08/2017

"Push away nothing", "Stop postponing things", "Be surprised" and so many other lessons from the dying from Frank Ostaseski, co-founder of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project. Insights from his new book will teach you to live life fully. http://bit.ly/2pUtjsh

05/07/2017

Finally some good news!

Jess Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, tells us that even though our prosperity and population continue to increase, trends show decreasing use of energy, water, land, material resources, and impact on natural systems (except the ocean).

Watch as he explains his theories with The Long Now Foundation http://bit.ly/2oBi2cX

Jesse Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University in New York, co-founder of The Encyclopedia of Life, co-organizer of the first UN World Climate Conference in 01979, co-founder of The Barcode of Life, co-organizer of the Census of Marine Life, and former V...