Ecotopia
the notebooks and reports of William Weston
by Ernest Callenbach
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"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be true about government and human nature itself, forcing him to choose between two competing views of civilization"--Back cover.
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Nature conservation, Utopias, Literary Criticism, Fiction in English, Fiction, Environmentalism, Conservation of natural resources, Nonfiction, Human ecology, Environmentalists, Utopias in literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Geschichte, Geschichte, jüdisch, Sprache Jiddisch, Anthologie, Jiddisch, Dystopie, Ecologie, Ecology, Utopian societies, Biotic communities, Environmental responsibility, Ecological accountability, Ecology, fiction, Science fiction, Children's fiction, Literary criticism, Fiction in english, Human ecology--fiction, Environmentalism--fiction, Environmentalists--fiction, Nature conservation--fiction, Conservation of natural resources--fiction, Ps3553.a424 e35 2004, 813/.54, Utopias--fiction, Ps3553.a424 e36 2014Showing 9 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
2014, Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books
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- 40th anniversary epistle edition. Second edition.
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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1990, Bantam Books
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Ökotopia: Notizen und Reportagen von William Weston aus dem Jahre 1999
1978, Rotbuch Verlag
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Ecotopia: a novel about ecology, people and politics in 1999
1978, Pluto Press
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0861040260 9780861040261
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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1975, Banyan Tree Books : distributed by Bookpeople
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Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
1975, Bantam
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"Includes 'Epistle to the Ecotopians' (2012)."
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"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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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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