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Original Title:	Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
ISBN:	0553348477 (ISBN13: 9780553348477)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.ernestcallenbach.com/Books.html
Characters:	William Weston, Vera Allwen
Setting:	United States of America

Ecotopia

Ernest Callenbach

Paperback | Pages: 181 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 3985 Users | 481 Reviews

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A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

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Title	:	Ecotopia
Author	:	Ernest Callenbach
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 181 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1990 by Bantam (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Environment. Utopia. Dystopia. Politics

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Ratings: 3.59 From 3985 Users | 481 Reviews

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This is a jewel. A good friend offered me a worn out paperback, that was probably read by many people. Mine was already read by others. It is good to get a hold of utopian scenarios. This stories makes its utopia feel real. And why shouldn't we dream of a better world? It is interesting the way it was constructed. An outsider visits Ecotopia for the first time since it was created. A visitor from the USA. Ecotopia is a new country, its territory consists of Northen California, Oregon and

The great thing about this book is it thinks through all your West Coast Succession dreams. There is a lot of fake future trivia you can relate to and all the Eco living standards are wonderful to think about. I rate it with a 3 because it is no literary masterpiece but I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever dreamed of West coast succession. Independent Eco living.

Fascinating time capsule. Reading this was like doing an archeological dig into the roots of a whole heap of utopian political, social, and psychological attitudes that helped shaped the 1970s and beyond. I can imagine myself reading this when I was 18 in the mid-80s and grooving to a lot of the ideas. Today, I found it oddly disturbing. It will take a while to process why.

Northern California, Oregon, and Washington secede from the US. What's not to like? Five stars for imagination, given that this was written back in the 70s. This is a flawed masterpiece, an original vision that sticks to the inside of your head (OK my head) for decades. Callenbach shows us an alternative to the corporate- and profit-dominated world we live in now. Having read the book, I can't hear pundits talk about rising GDP and the need to increase our standard of living without wondering

Reading Ecotopia today is like watching men trying to invent a flying machine by flapping big finely crafted wings, as they did so for hundreds of years. Man can't fly that way! We are too much dead weight, we have to have a fixed wing and lots of power. We have to fire our jets against gravity. We need power, not a carapace of balsa wood and a bag of feathers. But oh, do I wish it weren't so! Ecotopia is hard evidence that good solutions only go as far as the people with good sense can carry

I liked this book very much. I very much enjoyed the way it was structured, with different 'articles' describing different aspects of life in this imagined Ecotopian society. I always enjoy when books about alternate futures focus on the way people live instead of a dramaticized plot. I thought the interspersion of journal entries and articles was an excellent balance between these two aspects of the greater story of Ecotopia.It is unfortunate to say that the book has not aged well. It is no

Ecotopians have the feeling of never being alone. This classic read as if it had been written yesterday. That is beautiful.That is sad.Because I could have been living in Ecotopia instead of reading it. Sexual equality, sustainability, 3D printing, FaceTime, community, guilt avoidance warfare, recycling, solar power, environmental harmony, social justice, and my personal favorite - the revision of the Protestant work ethic.All the important issues being discussed today were addressed here in