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	Ecotopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 after.
		Garreau's Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Western Oregon, Western Washington, coastal British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska and is one of the nine economic-cultural nations into which Garreau believed North America should be divided to correctly understand the true regional dynamics of the continent.
		This Ecotopia, like Callenbach's, is characterized culturally by its environmental sensibilities and focus on 'quality of life', and economically by its focus on renewable resources such as hydropower and forestry.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecotopia (749 words)

	EcoTopia - EYFA wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The first idea of Ecotopia was born during a camp organised by Eyfa in Friburg in 1988, and the first Ecotopia gathering took place in Cologne (Germany), in 1989.
		Moreover, Ecotopia is horizontally self-organised and during the gathering all decisions are taken by consensus in the daily morning circles.
		Ecotopia is an extraordinary open event which offers opportunities for active cooperation to every person with an environmental and social sensitivity.
	eyfa.benn.org /wiki/EcoTopia (846 words)

	AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Escape from 'Ecotopia'
		More fundamentally, Ecotopia is a "stable-state" society, where old notions of economic progress are retired and "biological stasis" becomes the ultimate goal.
		You need only google "ecotopia" to get a glimmering of its far-reaching influence: there's ecotopia.org, ecotopia.com, ecotopia.biz, ecotopia.co.uk, etc. And it may even be true that some pillars of the modern environmental movement were built upon Ecotopian ideals.
		I found "Ecotopia" in the late seventies, when I was still in high school, and have enjoyed reading and periodically rereading it despite its limitations.
	www.alternet.org /envirohealth/21998 (2493 words)

	Ecotopia Dyson
		The Wald: (pronounced Vald) Orbiting at 45-degree angles from the equatorial plane of the Ecotopia system and passing through the plane of the Lab (and each other) via a combination of carefully placed orbits and even more carefully controlled orbital manuvering are the massive, dual bands of orbital forest and habitat known as the Wald.
		The majority of Ecotopia's population lives within the Wald, with only small colonies (generally 10-150 million sophonts) making their homes on those worlds of the Lab that are in final testing mode as habitable biospheres.
		Total system population of the Ecotopia Dyson complex is currently some 3 trillion sophonts ranging across a broad range of clades, types, and species.
	www.orionsarm.com /worlds/Ecotopia_Dyson.html (1619 words)

	GREEN / Ecotopia at 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The result is Ecotopia, a seminal novel that articulated a vision for modern environmentalism.
		Ecotopia is a plainly wonky novel -- characters make lengthy digressions into the finer points of sewage sludge and cooperative workplaces -- and the flat characterizations and superficial plot are undoubtedly prominent reasons why so many publishers passed on the story.
		Bike lanes criss-cross Ecotopia's capital city of San Francisco, where happy gay couples are pillars of society and the very idea of clear-cutting a forest is antisocial and abhorrent.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/01/19/gree.DTL (1378 words)

	Heyday Books: Ecotopia
		Ecotopia only asks the reader to imagine that, in certain lucky circumstances, a part of the United States breaks away, takes charge of its own biological destiny, and invents a survival-oriented "stable-state" way of living which uses technology instead of being used by it.
		Ecotopia, made up of what was once Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, has been independent for several decades.
		Like a modern Gulliver, Weston is sometimes horrified sometimes impressed despite himself, and sometimes touched by the strange practices he encounters—which include ritual war games, collective ownership and operation of farms and factories, and an attention to trees and reforestation which borders on tree-worship.
	www.heydaybooks.com /public/books/eco.html (562 words)

	: : e c o t o p i a : :
		Ecotopia is an international gathering of young people from all over Europe involved or interested in environmental and social justice issues.
		Ecotopia is also a functional model of self-sustainable community that puts into practice the principles of an environmentally friendly life-style: waste recycling, vegetarian kitchen, consensus decision-making, the use of alternative energy...Where possible, Ecotopians participate in regional actions and clean ups, try to get local people interested in ecological problems and empower local organizations.
		Ecotopia operates on the ecorates system - an alternative economic system based on living standards and income of people rather than financial markets, which means that you pay for food at Ecotopia the same amount as you would pay for it in your own country.
	www.eyfa.org /ecotopia.html (233 words)

	WISE NC; ECOTOPIA GREAT SUCCESS
		ECOTOPIA, the summer gathering organized by the European Youth Forest Action (EYFA) this year held from 1-21 August in Hungary, was a great success.
		Greatest interest at ECOTOPIA was clearly in appropriate technology and lifestyles showing respect for the Earth and between people.
		These are the main themes for ECOTOPIA 1991 to be held in Estonia from 5-18 August.
	www10.antenna.nl /wise/337/3365.html (423 words)

	Ecotopia - - Environmentally friendly - green and recycled products and gifts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ecotopia have a new range of amazing environmentally friendly cardboard toys for children.
		The range consists of a cardboard playhouse, toy fort, large rocket, dolls house and chair which are flat packed, made from recycled cardboard, can be customized with pens and crayons and at the end of their life are bio-degradable.
		Ecotopia stocks amazing and unique wildlife products which are manufactured and designed in the heart of the English Countryside.
	www.ecotopia.co.uk (345 words)

	Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City \| By Alan Thein Durning \| Grist Magazine \| Soapbox \| 19 ...
		In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise.
		The text became a counterculture classic, and the term "Ecotopia" entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent's forested far coast as a land of recycling bins and spotted owls, old-growth purity and environmental correctness.
		Yes, the Northwest has cleaner air and water than the Big Apple, and an impressive share of its ecosystems still exist in something approximating their original state, which cannot be said of New York.
	www.gristmagazine.com /soapbox/durning081903.asp (960 words)

	Talking Leaves: Winter 1999: Ecotopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The novel Ecotopia appeared in 1975, its "prequel" Ecotopia Emerging in 1981.
		Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging are stories (they include love stories) with happy endings.
		The secessionist metaphor of Ecotopia is aimed at making us think of how we would run the world immediately around us if we were not subject to the vagaries of distant power in Washington or in corporate headquarters.
	www.talkingleaves.org /w99ecotopia.htm (1714 words)

	Amazon.com: Ecotopia: Books: Ernest Callenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games.
		Ecotopia is a country made up of the states of Washington, Oregon, and a big chunk of California.
		Pollution is a grave crime in Ecotopia, and many citizens agitate for military action against nations involved in reckless destruction of the environment.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553348477 (2407 words)

	Turf: The Green Dream (Seattle Weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The story is told from the perspective of an American reporter, William Weston, who is one of the first outsiders allowed into Ecotopia some 20 years after Washington, Oregon, and Northern California have successfully separated themselves from the rest of America to form a new country.
		One of his nations within the continent is Ecotopia, and he has eight other ones, including Mexamerica, which is Southern California and some of the desert areas to the east and Mexico itself, and it's a fascinating book.
		Endangered Ecotopia — It's three hours south in Oregon, but is now a dream at risk.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0512/050323_news_callenbach.php (4527 words)

	:: Ecotopia Biketour 2004 :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The cyclists started their travel in Vienna and are on their way to Gorinchem in the Netherlands, where the annual ecological festival like "Ecotopia Gathering" is taking place.
		Apart from reaching Ecotopia in an environmentally friendly way, the aim of the Biketour is to show the world that cycling is more than just recreation.
		Visitors to Ecotopia wanted to reach this special place in a special environmentally-friendly way.
	home.wanadoo.nl /abarten/biketour/press.html (338 words)

	Ecotopia EIS
		The Ecotopia EIS imports and exports to all flat file database formats, making it easy to integrate with your general management decision support system.
		Ecotopia also provides all kinds of custom services, including setting up your own fully functional EIS (hardware and software) à la carte.
		"Ecotopia is a member of European Partners for the Environment"
	ecotopia.be /eis/index.htm (226 words)

	Turf: The Green Dream (Seattle Weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Rereading Ecotopia on its 30th anniversary highlighted the biggest reason I've stayed: I've been living in a secessionist state.
		Indeed, much like Callenbach's protagonist, William Weston—a journalist and the first American to visit Ecotopia since the secession—visitors to Portland are enthralled and mystified by everything from the growing system of light rail and streetcars to the 11,000 cyclists who stream into downtown every day to the absence of Styrofoam cups (banned in 1990).
		In the years between 1974 and 1994, as the rest of the country saw a 50 percent drop in attendance at public meetings and membership in civic organizations, Portland's rate doubled.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0512/050323_news_portland.php (1847 words)

	The Columbus Free Press
		Both novels use the familiar mechanism of the visitor: in Ecotopia the visitor is a reporter, in News from Nowhere, the visit is made in a dream.
		An interesting aspect of Ecotopia is the ritual war games, which are seen as a safety valve for male aggressiveness.
		The President of Ecotopia is a woman, and the predominant political party is female-dominated.
	freepress.org /Backup/UnixBackup/pubhtml/leftie/left9810.html (14858 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Kelpie Wilson \| A Virtual Ecotopia
		For a certain brand of idealist coming of age in the 1970s, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia was required reading.
		This unpretentious novel is a travelogue through the imaginary nation of Ecotopia: the three west coast states that secede from the Union in 1980 to create a sustainable, cooperative culture while spurning militarism, pollution and male domination.
		Power companies will also have to offer customers a nice rebate for solar electricity that could pay a third or more of the cost of installing solar power in their homes.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/112504X.shtml (1711 words)

	Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach
		Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach (1975)
		It is a mix of hippy ideals - such free marijuana use, and free love -combined with things such as recycling that are common place today, and green visions that are not - decentralized government, massive reductions in car use, rewilding of roads and strip mills.
	limnology.wisc.edu /peterson/ecoFiction/Ecotopia.html (558 words)

	What is ecotopia?
		Ecotopia, a place where one would like to stay?!
		As taken from the first pages of the book, ecotopia roots into Greek language and denotes a place, where you feel at home.
		Ecotopia is the title of a novel by the author Ernest Callenbach, released in mid seventies, when ecological topics started to come into our views.
	www.oche.de /%7Eecotopia/ecotopia (626 words)

	Ecotopia 2005 \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		This year marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Ecotopia, a modest book on the secession of the Pacific Northwest and creation of an isolated, environmentally attuned nation that became an underground classic.
		Its author, Ernest Callenbach, coined the term Ecotopia and is credited with the first systemic description of an ecologically sustainable society.
		The idea of being able to have natural cycles that continue indefinitely, round and round, stable state cycles, and that the idea is to think in very long terms and to work with nature rather than against nature.
	www.energybulletin.net /4458.html (2937 words)

	Hunting and Gathering in Ecotopia - Culture Change e-letter
		In case depaving sounds outrageous to you, there are plenty of lawns and some wasted pasture here (and maybe near you beyond Ecotopia).
		When the Big Discontinuity hits—final petroleum shortage—early this century, the idea of local food production by any means necessary will not seem crazy at all.
		Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach, is a highly recommended novel.
	culturechange.org /e-letter-2cont.html (1338 words)

	Ernest Callenbach - The Green Triangle
		Not at all, says Ernest (Chick) Callenbach, author of Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging.
		But learning to live happily with less consumption of goods vastly outranks all the other things we might choose to do to save the earth.
		That's why, in my book Ecotopia, people are appreciated for what they produce - in human relationships, in art, in community life, in science, in politics - and to call somebody a "consumer" is an insult.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC26/Callnbch.htm (951 words)

	Facts about topic: (Utopia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) by Marge Piercy (additional info and facts about Marge Piercy) is a feminist science fiction (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) novel in which the protagonist must act to win the utopian future over an alternative, dystopian, one.
		Ecotopia (novel) (additional info and facts about Ecotopia (novel)) (1975) by Ernest Callenbach (additional info and facts about Ernest Callenbach)
		most of the stories in Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias (additional info and facts about Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias) (1994), edited by Kim Stanley Robinson (additional info and facts about Kim Stanley Robinson)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ut/utopia.htm (2280 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Future Primitive
		Bladerunner or Ecotopia?: Ecological despair and the vision quest
		In this world hellbent for either Tomorrowland or Blade Runner (or a combination of both), filled with the rhetoric of machine-age ejector-seat teleology, millenarian hype and encounters of the cybernetic kind, we sometimes forget how tough and redoubtable this planet is and how totally uncaring.
		Future Primitive, an anthology of stories partly inspired by Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, offers us visions with those difficulties sharply in focus -- futures unimagined by the streetsmart cyberpunks and silicon capitalists.
	www.sfsite.com /08a/fut14.htm (479 words)

	Four visions of the century ahead: will it be Star Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government, or Mad Max?(technological optimism ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Four visions of the century ahead: will it be Star Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government, or Mad Max?(technological optimism and skepticism) : An article from: The Futurist
		This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on February 1, 1999.
		Some believe in a technologically advanced generation similar to that portrayed in the television program 'Star Trek.' Others see an environmental haven.
	www.textkit.com /0_B00098LKCK.html (181 words)

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