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Ecotopia: (40th Anniversary Ed.) Paperback – Unabridged, November 1, 2014

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Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ecotopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now, this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ecotopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be true about government and human nature itself, forcing him to choose between two competing views of civilization.

Since it was first published in 1975, Ecotopia has inspired readers throughout the world with its vision of an ecologically and socially sustainable future. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes Ernest Callenbach's final essay, “An Epistle to the Ecotopians,” and a new foreword by Callenbach's close friend and publisher, Malcolm Margolin.

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Banyan Tree Books
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November 1, 2014
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5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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159714293X
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978-1597142939
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An environmental classic. --Time

The newest name after Wells and Verne and Huxley and Orwell is Ernest Callenbach, creator of Ecotopia. --Los Angeles Times

''One of the most important utopian novels of the twentieth century that still has very important lessons to teach us. It will always convey to perfection the wild optimism of that moment: a feeling we need to recapture, adjusted for our time.'' --Kim Stanley Robinson

''One of the most important utopian novels of the twentieth century that still has very important lessons to teach us. It will always convey to perfection the wild optimism of that moment: a feeling we need to recapture, adjusted for our time.'' --Kim Stanley Robinson

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Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ecotopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now, this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ecotopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be true about government and human nature itself, forcing him to choose between two competing views of civilization.

Since it was first published in 1975, Ecotopia has inspired readers throughout the world with its vision of an ecologically and socially sustainable future. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes Ernest Callenbach's final essay, "An Epistle to the Ecotopians," and a new foreword by Callenbach's close friend and publisher, Malcolm Margolin.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Banyan Tree Books; Anniversary edition (November 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159714293X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597142939
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Joyce

Prescient!

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2017

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This book, called prescient in 2008, is more stunningly so today. Ecotopia translates “home place” and was born out of an attempt to deal with a practical issue – sewage. Written in 1975, it is set in the future of 1999. In 1980 the states of Washington and Oregon had joined northern California in seceding from the union. Most Americans have been barred from traveling to Ecotopia and the book is made up of the newspaper articles and the diary entries of Will Weston, the first American mainstream reporter to visit. The book is one of the manuals of the bioregional movement I have been a part of since 1984, as the country of Ecotopia was formed out of a vision of relating to the earth sustainably, emphasizing biology more than physics. The vision involves being rooted to place. Community relationships are central. Everyone is an artist of some kind and everyone sings and dances. Attitudes toward sex are looser and politically it is egalitarian (Ecotopia has a woman president). Ecological values rule.
In 2012, Callenbach, aware of his upcoming death, left an epistle to us Ecotopians. It is included in the 40th anniversary edition and can also be found online. It is his “thoughts and attitudes that may prove useful in the dark times we are facing.” He discusses hope, mutual support, practical skills, organizing, learning to live with contradictions, and the Big Picture. In one paragraph he describes with amazing specificity (in 2012, mind you) our present president. He closes with an encouragement to appreciate the Japanese wisdom of the beauty of wabi-sabi. “Let us embrace decay, for it is the source of all new life and growth.”

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Brock

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2023

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A look forward from decades ago. Still very cool and fun to read.

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Written in the 70s, but still good!

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021

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Keep in mind this is a book written in the 70s. A lot of how they discuss race and gender are dated at times. It's still a neat What If regardless. I'll admit it's not the most realistic in the setting, but it put me on a journey of learning about the place I live.

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2016

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What a great book, has such an amazing message, hard to put down.
It is so crazy how non fiction this fiction book feels Ernest callenbach was a future teller cause we as the United States are in the footprints of this book and I wish we could get over our egos and become an ecotopia maybe then we will not go extinct. But this is a fantastic book I recommend it to anyone who is interested in enviromental and political books.

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Washington, Oregon and Northern California secede from the union! Great idea!

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2017

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Even though this book was written in 1985 a lot of the content is relevant today. Fun read and if it became reality I'd be the first in line at the gates of Ecotopia!

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Edward Woodhouse

but not bad.

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017

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This is an important book, one of the few positive Utopias of the late 20th century. It is too simple, without enough detail to reveal how the favorable lifestyle could be halfway plausible. The writing is average, but not bad.

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Spark the Left Coast Nationalist in You

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015

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I read an early addition from the library years ago. A few years ago, I bought the prequel and enjoyed it immensely. When I saw this 40th anniversary addition, I decided it was time to complete my Callenbach collection. Totally influenced my personal politics.

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Jason Galbraith

The Drawbacks of Utopian Novels

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2023

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I have been writing a screenplay about the nation of Ecotopia in my head for at least the past 3 months, but I really didn't want to film this book, I wanted to film "Ecotopia Emerging," the prequel, which covers Ecotopia's successful struggle for independence. So I ordered that one and it's coming Monday.

The premise of "Ecotopia" is that the entire West Coast north of Santa Barbara (but apparently not including Alaska, does Alaska even count as the West Coast?) secedes from the United States in a rejection of materialism and militarism. Ecotopia then establishes normal relations with nearly every country in the world EXCEPT the US because they are annoyed at us sending 28 air assault divisions to retake their country even though they shot down nearly all our helicopters in 3 days (see "Ecotopia Emerging").

In order for XVIII Airborne Corps to possess over 7,679 helicopters (the number the astonished hero-reporter is informed were shot down 16 years earlier) it would have to consist of 28 divisions which were basically replicas of the 101st (which itself possesses only 280). I guess the lesson here is, size doesn't matter (since the Ecotopians shot nearly all of them down). But President Allwen of Ecotopia seems to think size DOES matter and small is beautiful, since she calls for further partitioning of the US and every other large country. (For some reason the Soviet Union incidentally still exists, the Internet does not, and the US invaded Brazil after failing to reabsorb Ecotopia.)

The reasons Ecotopia seceded are basically what we all lived through in the 80s and 90s: stagnating wages complemented by worse pollution than we actually experienced. More about that of course in "Ecotopia Emerging." For this book, only 3 stars.

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