 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Ernest Callenbach |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Utopian novel |
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Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 181 |
| ISBN | 0-553-34847-7 |
| OCLC | 20169799 |
| 813.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.A424 E35 1990 |
| Followed by | Ecotopia Emerging |
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter. The author himself claimed that the society he depicted in the book is not a true utopia (in the sense of a perfect society), but, while guided by societal intentions and values, was imperfect and in-process.[1]
Callenbach said of the story, in relation to Americans: "It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go."[2]
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Callenbach, Ernest; Heddle, James. ""Ecotopia Then & Now," an interview with Ernest Callenbach". Retrieved 6 April 2013 – via YouTube.
- ^ Timberg, Scott (14 December 2008) "The Novel That Predicted Portland" The New York Times