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Ecotopia
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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.
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- Author
- Ernest Callenbach
- First published
- 1975
- Editions
- 31
- Subjects
- Nature conservation, Utopias, Literary Criticism, Fiction in English, Fiction, Environmentalism, Conservation of natural resources, Nonfiction
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Key facts
- Book.name
- Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
- Book.image
- File:Ecotopia, first edition.jpg
- Book.image_size
- 200px
- Book.caption
- Cover of the first edition
- Book.author
- Ernest Callenbach
- Book.country
- United States
- Book.language
- English
- Book.genre
- Utopian novel
- Book.release_date
- 1975
- Book.media_type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Book.pages
- 181
- Book.isbn
- 0-553-34847-7
- Book.dewey
- 813.54 20
- Book.congress
- PS3553.A424 E35 1990
- Book.oclc
- 20169799
- Book.followed_by
- Ecotopia Emerging
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- publication date
- 1975-00-00
- title
- Οικοτοπία
- first line
- 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.
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10 sectionsContents
- Context
- Plot summary
- Values exemplified in the novel
- Anticipation of emerging realities
- Impact
- Reception
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
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."