An important document of utopian ideas from the sixties and seventies, The Complete Ecotopia is also a stimulating read for environmentalists today-one that tells a bold, inventive, and adventurous story. 'In Ecotopia Emerging, the internal contradictions of existing North American capitalism do feature strongly in creating the impetus for change. 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. This edition includes tworetrospective essays by the author, as well as an updated foreword by Heyday founder Malcolm Margolin.

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopian saga anticipated climate fiction by more than a decade, sold approximately one million copies and was translated into one dozen languages, and predicted a host of innovations running from C-SPAN to widespread recycling. Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981), which paint detailed portraits of a healthier earth and a happier society, became foundational texts for a new wave of environmental activists, and they still contain an abundance of ideas yet to be realized.

It will always convey to perfection the wild optimism of that moment: a feeling we need to recapture, adjusted for our time.'- Kim Stanley Robinson on EcotopiaĬollected in one handsome volume for the first time, The Complete Ecotopia presents an early classic of environmental science fiction in its entirety. 'One of the most important utopian novels of the twentieth century that still has very important lessons to teach us. Ecotopia Emerging (EE) by Ernest Callenbach is a fictionalized history of the events leading up to the secession of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington to form the steadystate, environmentalist nation of Ecotopia along the Pacific Coast of the United States. Published in hardcover for the first time in forty years, two classics of environmental science fiction

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