Ernest Callenbach

Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980

The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston

Ecotopia

Michael Phillips

A Citizen Legislature

Der Roman "Ökotopia", 1975 verfasst, verblüfft durch seine Aktualität: Elektrotaxis, Biogemüse, Smartphones, mächtige Politikerinnen, Solarenergie – beim Lesen glaubt man sich immer wieder in eine parallele Gegenwart versetzt. Doch der kleine Staat Ökotopia an der US-amerikanischen Südwestküste, der sich in Callenbachs Zukunftsszenario von den Vereinigten Staaten abgespalten hat, ist einfach nur seiner Zeit weit voraus. Entsprechend staunt auch der New Yorker Journalist William Weston, der über die skurrile Hippie-Republik mit der guten Luft berichten soll, und wirft seine Vorurteile bald über Bord. Spätestens als er sich in eine Ökotopianerin verliebt, will er gar nicht mehr zurück. Doch um bleiben zu können, muss er nicht nur die Wahrheit über einen von der US-Regierung vertuschten Krieg herausfinden, sondern auch beweisen, dass er eine gleichberechtigte Beziehung führen kann ... »Callenbach zeichnete 1975 eine Gesellschaft, die durch ihre ökologische Nachhaltigkeit heute mehr denn je inspirierend wirkt.« DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR

Roman

Ökotopia

A Survival Guide for the Age of Inflation

The Ecotopian Encyclopedia for the 80's

een Futuristische Roman

Fiction. This prequel to ECOTOPIA is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, habitable environment. Its heroine is a brash and brilliant high school student who invents a better photovoltaic cell. People who also appear in ECOTOPIA first join the story in this epic vision of the birth of a new nation.

Ecotopia Emerging

The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Niveau B2 (GER)

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. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. 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.

A Novel

In the year 1999 Wil Weston, investigative reporter, encounters a new way to live, and a new romantic interest, in a nation in charge of its own biological destiny.

Conversations between Jim, a professor of literature and philosophy, and Michelle, a favorite student, reveal secrets of the world of publishing

A Dialogue Concerning the Secrets of how Publishers Think & what Authors Can Do about it

Publisher's Lunch

Christine Leefeldt

Recounts how a young humpback whale entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam seventy miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.

Humphrey the Wayward Whale

Fritjof Capra

Lenore Goldman

Rudiger Lutz

LENORE LUTZ

Sandra Marburg

A guide for ecologically responsible businesses from one of the world's leading ecology think tanks, the Elmwood Institute. This book tells how to do a thorough review of a company's operations from the perspective of deep ecology as opposed to superficial environmentalism. ECOMANAGEMENT provides a clear action plan for making a company more ecologically sound.

The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business

EcoManagement

In 1986 in the Pacific Northwest a new political party organizes a secession from the United States in order to implement their ecological policies

With a new epilogue Though the Plains have been in economic and population decline since the twenties, they are actually within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country. This visionary book offers a constructive alternative to the decline of cattle ranching, depletion of underground water, and dependency on outside energy sources. It shows how bringing back the hardy, majestic bison and using the region's winds to generate power are keys to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.

Ernest Callenbach

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