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by Ernest Callenbach (Author) "The Times-Post is at last able to announce that William Weston, our top international affairs reporter, will spend six weeks in Ecotopia, beginning next week..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 181 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam USA; Bantam Trade Ed edition (1 Nov 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553348477
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553348477
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 300,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A classic of earth consciousness." --Denis Hayes, original coordinator of Earth Day
"Essential reading for all who care about the earth's future."--Fritjof Capra, author of "The Tao of Physics" and "The Turning Point"
"None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society."--Ralph Nader

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Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You must read this book... it will haunt you forever., 11 Jan 1999
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I read this book ten years ago, and at least once or twice a year since then. I take it with me when I travel, and I have given it to everyone I know. Ernest Callenbachs vison of what life could be, and should be like is inspiring and has made me think twice about everything I do. I find myself thinking about the message of this book at least once a week. Although it is a novel with some unimportant sub-plots, I enjoyed and savored every word of it. A must for everyone who cares about the country and the planet.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not wonderful, 20 Oct 1997
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Ecotopia is a book that is definitely worth reading, in that it describes a nation that is desperately striving to save its own environment and the health of the Earth as a whole. As an environmental novel this is undoubtedly a ground-breaking work. However, there were several areas where I thought that it could use considerable improvement. Firstly, the nation of Ecotopia is ridiculously fertile and well-off - many of the problems that would occur in any real implementation of an environmental state are simply brushed off. Population control is easy because these states are already close to zero-growth; finding money for maglev trains is even easier because Boeing just happens to be in the country; workers' control of factories and land reform is easy because people are all nice; there is no large-scale opposition; and so on. When considering past revolutions which also attempted to create Utopian states, this sort of doo dee doo optimism is somewhat disconcerting. Here, it seems that the book comes dangerously close to the line between vision and fantasy. Secondly, the book's storyline is somewhat trite, and character development is not really present. Thus, it would be stretching it a bit to call Ecotopia a work of literature. Nevertheless, though, Ecotopia is an imaginative work, and should be read if only for the sake of seeing what one possible environmental state might be like.
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5.0 out of 5 stars ECOTOPIA is a realistic goal & an inspiration, 26 April 1999
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My first experience with ECOTOPIA was with my 11th grade English class in Anchorage, Alaska. We were each given a copy of it to read, discuss, and write about. That was back in April of 1990, when Earth Day was 'big'. Now Earth Day doesn't get much mention at all, just a few seconds in the news on April 22. It is sad to see that the environmental enthusiasm has lost its momentum with my lost and now markedly apathetic generation: Generation X (as the media marketers labeled it to sell things). ECOTOPIA is an inspiration, a must read for everyone... It is possible to achieve a world of balance and health like ECOTOPIA if we break our addiction to non-renewable resources and cynicism: There WAS life before corporations and more connectedness, too. This book shows what we can achieve when we DOUBT the lies of the consumerism culture that have us believing that using most of the world's resources is good & the 'American way.' The Native Americans were very wise and had it right when they said to Respect the Earth. It is the Earth who has sustained us for countless millennia, What have we given back to the Earth besides pollution and greed? :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational glimpse of a far better way of life
Ecotopia is such a visionary piece of writing, miles ahead of its time. It tells the story of life in an Ecology State long before the term had been developed by modern day... Read more
Published 14 months ago by BLG

2.0 out of 5 stars The Soviet Union in The USA !!!
The writing is somewhat stilted, so I did not find the book to be "gripping reading". It will never become "literature" in the way Orwell's 1984 did, but it deals with a similar... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2003 by Capt I. McRae

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but w/o a lot of regular literary components
While I found this novel engaging, and hard to put down, there were many problems with the piece itself. Read more
Published on 3 Jul 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Ecotopia is like 1984, only far more so.
Ecotopia is like 1984 by George Orwell, only far more so. A horrifying picture of a world in which everything which does not conform to the credo of the Green Communists, on... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! An wonderful, important eco-novel.
What a wonderful book! Having done lots of reading (non-fiction) on ecological sustainability, simple living, etc. Read more
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