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A Bristol Festival of Ideas event.

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Stewart Brand is one of the great visionaries of our time. His latest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, argues that 'Being Green' is no longer enough. Three profound transformations are underway on Earth: climate change, urbanization and biotechnology. Unless environmentalists keep up with new science, and embrace tools and disciplines that it has traditionally distrusted - such as science and engineering - in order to forestall the cataclysmic deterioration of the earth's resources, they will become part of the problem. Brand shatters a number of environmental myths - cities are greener than the countryside, nuclear power is the future of energy, and genetic engineering is the key to crop and land management. Through scientific rigor and blazing advocacy, Brand offers a bold and creative set of policies and solutions for producing a more sustainable society. He is in discussion with Brian Eno, musician and composer, cultural critic and writer who has a long-standing interest and involvement in new thinking about politics and the future.

WHOLE EARTH DISCIPLINE: 'Stewart Brand's timely and down to Earth new book gives me hope that his wisdom will help us prevent the Earth system breaking as the economic system has done. The last things we need are more theoretical models or visionary hitech. This book is truly important and a joy to read. It is a practical guide to damage limitation and a sustainable retreat to a far more efficient society.' JAMES LOVELOCK

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Stewart Brand is the founder of and original editor of The Whole Earth Catalogue. He is the author of The Clock of the Long Now and How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, and is the Director of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He lives on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay. His latest book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

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Brian Eno is an English musician, record producer, music theorist and visual artist, and one of the principal innovators of ambient music. He has worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale, Cluster, Robert Fripp, David Byrne and many others. He produced three albums by Talking Heads, seven for U2, including The Joshua Tree (1987), as well as albums by Laurie Anderson, Coldplay, Paul Simon, Jon Hassell and Devo, among others. As an artist, Brian Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, public lectures and 'Oblique Strategies' (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which each card has a cryptic remark or random insight meant to resolve a dilemma. He is a patron of Client Earth, the environmental NGO, and of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) which campaigns for nuclear disarmament. In 1996, Eno and others started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public about the very long term future of society.