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.
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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).
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