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Ecotopia

by Ernest Callenbach
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Green Utopia: Blueprint for a Sustainable Society

Ecotopia could be a good read for someone interested in exploring a unique vision of a sustainable society. The book offers a hopeful vision of a future where environmental concerns have been successfully addressed and human beings live in harmony with nature. Readers may enjoy the portrayal of an alternate society based on principles of eco-friendliness, including energy-efficient "mini-cities" and zero-tolerance pollution control, as it challenges them to reconsider conventional perspectives on sustainable living. The book also explores themes of social and political revolution, and how they can be achieved peacefully.

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Ecotopia

by Ernest Callenbach
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ISBN: 9780553348477
Authors: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher: Bantam
Date of Publication: 1990-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia
Goodreads rating: 3.59
(rated by 5416 readers)

Description

A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.
 

Green Utopia: Blueprint for a Sustainable Society

Ecotopia could be a good read for someone interested in exploring a unique vision of a sustainable society. The book offers a hopeful vision of a future where environmental concerns have been successfully addressed and human beings live in harmony with nature. Readers may enjoy the portrayal of an alternate society based on principles of eco-friendliness, including energy-efficient "mini-cities" and zero-tolerance pollution control, as it challenges them to reconsider conventional perspectives on sustainable living. The book also explores themes of social and political revolution, and how they can be achieved peacefully.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.