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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Bioregionalism - definition? Eco Links
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:58:04 -0500

John & Maia O'Brien wrote:
All I found on googling ecotopia was rock bands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book 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 after.

The impressive, environmentally benign energy, homebuilding, and transportation technology Callenbach described in Ecotopia was based on research findings published in such journals as Scientific American. The author's story was woven using the fiber of technologies, lifestyles, folkways, and attitudes that were being reflected (from real-life experience) in the pages of, say, the Whole Earth Catalog and its successor CoEvolution Quarterly, as well as being depicted in newspaper stories, novels and films. Callenbach's main ideas for Ecotopian values and practices were based on actual experimentation taking place in the American West. As an example, Callenbach's fictional Crick School was based upon Pinel School, an alternative school outside Martinez, California once attended by his son.

The author’s Ecotopian concept does not reject high technology, but rather members of his fictional society show a conscious selectivity about technology, so that human health and sanity might be preserved, as also social and ecological health might be. For instance, Callenbach’s story anticipated the development and liberal usage of videoconferencing.

The term "ecotopian fiction", as a sub-genre of science fiction and utopian
fiction, refers to this book.


http://www.ecotopia.org/
EcoTopia
A design strategy for the new millennium
in Santa Cruz, California.
EcoTopia/USA is devoted to environmental education that leads to improving
behavior,
to bring about ecological utopia (ecotopia).

ECOLOGY and ENVIRONMENT LINKS At the EcoTopia web site:

<A HREF="http://earthsystems.org/Environment.shtml/";>Environmental Organization
WebDirectory!</A>
<A HREF="http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/links/environmentecology.html";>Wilson
Almanac</A>
<A HREF="http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org/links.html";>Circle of Life
Foundation</A>
<A HREF="http://www.proactivist.com/";>ProActivist</A>
<A HREF="http://willy.law.pace.edu/env/vell6.html";>Environmental Laws and
Treaties</A>
<A HREF="http://esa.sdsc.edu/";>Ecological Society of America</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu:70/docs/egj08/shrode1.html";>Electric Green Journal's Environmental Resources on the World Wide Web </A>
<A HREF="http://www.deb.uminho.pt/fontes/enviroinfo/"; >Enviro Info</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ecobeetle.com";>Ecobeetle.com</A>
<A HREF="http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/pte.htm";>Philosophy, Technology, and the
Environment</A>
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/dzikapani/index.html";>DZIKAPANI</A>
<A HREF="http://greennature.com";>Green Nature</A> <A
HREF="http://www.ecomall.com/";>EcoMall</A>
<A HREF="http://xenios.qldnet.com.au/acs/environment/links.html";>Environmental Links at the Australian Correspondence Schools site</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lsu.edu:80/guests/sglegal/public_html/environment.html";>Sea
Grant Legal Program </A>
<A HREF="http://home.aol.com/wedigest";>Home Page for WEDigest</A>
<A HREF="http://cnn.com/EARTH/9608/27/earth.matters.promos/sites.html";>Global
Warming sites</A>
<A HREF="http://www.venture-web.or.jp/ecoland/environ.html";>Environment &
Ecology--Japan (in Japanese)</A>
<A HREF="http://www.edbegley.com/indexbottom.html";>Ed Begley's Environment Web
Links</A>
<A HREF="http://www.earthchannel.com/mother/editoria/hotlink.htm";>Mother Earth
Hotlinks</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/";>EcoBusinessLinks Green
Directory</A>
<A HREF="http://www.www.aultimaarcadenoe.com";>The Last Noah's Ark</A>)
<A HREF="http://www.westcoastnature.com/";>West Coast Nature</A>
<A HREF="http://www.consecol.org/Journal/";>Conservation Ecology</A>
<A HREF="http://www.epa.gov/enviro/enviromapper.html";>EnviroMapper</A>
<A HREF="http://www.psr.org/";>Physicians for Social Responsibility</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ecologychannel.com/";>Ecology Channel</A>
<A HREF="http://www.willtrout.net/";>Architects Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ozone.org/index.html";>Ozone Action</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ewg.org/";>Environmental Working Group</A>
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/~combusem";>Combustion in the Rain Forest: Ecology, Energy, and Economy for a Sustainable Environment</A>
<A HREF="http://www.wildwork.org";>Wildlands Restoration Team</A>
<A HREF="http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/enter2.cgi?BI.html";>National Academy
Press</A>
<A HREF="http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/ ">Organic Tree Care</A>
<A HREF="http://www.paulsmiths.edu/aai/aai-link.html";>Adirondack Aquatic
Institute</A>
<A HREF=" http://www.nonviolence.org/tranet";>"TRANET": A Chronicle of the Emerging Gaian
Culture"</A>
<A HREF="http://www.wri.org/wri/";>World Resources Institute (WRI) Home
Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.internetserver.com/~smaes/GEI/PUBLIC/geifr.htm";>Global
Environment Institute</A>
<A HREF="http://www.roundriver.org/";>Round River Conservation Studies</A>
<A HREF="http://www2.netdoor.com/~pinky/aquatic.htm";>Aquatic Ecology Page</A>
<A HREF="http://epanet.angelnco.com/";>EPANET</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ecoliteracy.org/";>Center for Ecoliteracy</A>
<A HREF="http://www.uspirg.org/";>USPIRG</A>
<A HREF="http://www.new-cue.org/NEW-CUE.html";>NEW-CUE</A>
<A HREF="http://www.carpoolconnect.com/";>Carpool connect</A>
<A href="http://www.savebiogems.org";>SaveBioGems.org</A>
<A HREF="http://www.carfree.com";>Carfree</A>
<A HREF="http://www.EcologyFund.com/";>Ecology Fund</A>
<A HREF="http://earthhopenetwork.net/";>Earthhope Action Network</A>
<A HREF="http://www.david-morse.com/index2.html";>The Iron Bridge</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ulala.org/P_Pigeon/George.html";>A Passenger Pigeon</A>
<A HREF="http://www.toddjerseyarchitecture.com/livinglabs.htm";>Living Labs</A>
<A HREF="http://www.secondnature.org";>Second Nature</A>
<A HREF="http://www.eartheducation.com/";>The Institute for Earth Education</A>
<A HREF="http://www.artecology.org";>Artecology</A>
<A HREF="http://www.pedagonet.com";>PedaGo Net, Learning Resource Center</A>
<A HREF="http://globe.fsl.noaa.gov/";>GLOBE Student Data Server</A>
<A HREF="http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/naaee.html";>North American Association for
Environmental Education</A>
<A HREF="http://www.outdoorbooks.com/cat96c.htm";>The Outdoor Bookstore</A>
<A HREF="http://www.gatewest.net/~green/";>Green & Growing Environmental Education
Project's Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/trails/wedc/index.html";>Wilderness Education
Council of Washington State</A>
<A HREF="http://www.wri.org/wri/enved/";>WRI: Environmental Education Page</A>
<A HREF="http://countrylife.net/";>Country Life Online Village</A>
<A HREF="http://www.earthchannel.com/mother/editoria/03table.htm";>Mother Earth
online</A>
<A
HREF="http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Business/natlit/natlit.catalog.envpart";>Natural
Literacy books</A>
<A HREF="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cerc/WildOnes/";>The Wild Ones</A>
<A HREF="http://www.conservation.org.cy";>Cyprus Conservation Foundation</A>
<A HREF="http://www.esc.com.cy";>Environmental Studies Centre</A> in Kritou
Terra, Paphos, Cyprus
<A HREF="http://www.AndEarth.com";>AndEarth.com</A>
<A HREF="http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org/";>Circle of Life Foundation</A>
<A HREF="http://earthday.net/";>Earth Day Net</A>, promoting Earth Day 2000
<A HREF="http://www.cnie.org/";>The Committee for the National Institute for the
Environment</A>
<A HREF="http://www.savetheredwoods.org";>Save-the-Redwoods League</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ran.org/intro.html";>Rainforest Action Network</A>
<A HREF="http://www.nrdc.org/";>Natural Resources Defence Council</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ecosustainable.com.au/";>Ecosustainable Hub</A>
<A HREF="http://www.safe-food.org/";>Mothers for Natural Law</A>
<A HREF="http://www.iucn.org/themes/ramsar/";>The Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands</A>
<A HREF="http://www.earthisland.org";>Earth Island Institute</A>
<A HREF="http://www.audubon.org/";>National Audubon Society</A>
<A HREF="http://www.sierraclub.org";>The Sierra Club</A>
<A HREF="http://www.wilderness.org";>The Wilderness Society</A>
<A HREF="http://www.IFBE.org";>International Federation of Butterfly
Enthusiasts</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lib.uidaho.edu:70/docs/egj.html";>Electronic Green
Journal</A>
<A HREF="http://www.forestsforever.org/";>FORESTS FOREVER HOME PAGE</A>
<A HREF="http://www.surajmukhi.cjb.net";>Surajmukhi</A>
<A HREF="http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~djp2n/asle.html ">Association for the
Study of Literature and Environment</A>
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/GStigall";>Native Habitats</A><A
HREF="http://www.greenpeace.org"; >Greenpeace</A>
<A HREF="http://www.enviroweb.org/ef/";>EarthFirst! Journal</A>
<A HREF="http://www.nwf.org";>National Wildlife Federation</A>





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