Ecotopia

a novel about ecology, people and politics in 1999

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Ecotopia

a novel about ecology, people and politics in 1999

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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.

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."

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Publish Date
Publisher
Pluto Press
Language
English
Pages
167

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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
2014, Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books
in English - 40th anniversary epistle edition. Second edition.
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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1990, Bantam Books
in English - Bantam trade ed.
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Ecotopia
December 1, 1982, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Ecotopia
Ecotopia: a novel about ecology, people and politics in 1999
1978, Pluto Press
in English
Cover of: Ectopia
Cover of: Ökotopia
Ökotopia: Notizen und Reportagen von William Weston aus dem Jahre 1999
1978, Rotbuch Verlag
Paperback in German
Cover of: Ecotopia
Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1975, Banyan Tree Books : distributed by Bookpeople
in English
Cover of: Ecotopia
Ecotopia
June 1975, Heyday Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Ecotopia
Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1975, Bantam
Paperback

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Edition Notes

Originally published: Berkeley, Calif. : Banyan Tree Books, 1975.

ISBN 0-86104-019-8 Pbk : £1.20.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1F
Library of Congress
PZ4.C15643, PS3553.A424

The Physical Object

Pagination
(5), 167p. ;
Number of pages
167

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18241161M
Internet Archive
ecotopianovelabo0000call
ISBN 10
0861040260, 0861040198
OCLC/WorldCat
16434303
Library Thing
6853
Goodreads
3643977
2139184

First Sentence

"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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