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Ecotopia Emerging
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...more
Paperback, 326 pages
Published
January 1st 2004
by Banyan Tree Books
(first published 1981)
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This book is an interesting mix of foresight and hindsight, reading this almost 30 years after it was written. Having been born after it was written, I don't have a good sense of how much of this is true, and how much was speculation. Things certainly aren't as grim as they predicted - yet. But it could get that way, just as it could get better in ways they predicted as well. I doubt that the northwest will secede from the rest of the nation, but if it does, I'm glad I live here. :) The nicest p...more
Ecotopia is the name of that country. The US didn't want to dependant of ecotopia so they did everything such as millitary way to Ecotopia but they faild. After 20 years, William Western visited to Ecotopia by frist american. This is book's story is like his experience while he is staying in Ecotopia. After his work in Ecotopia, he decided to not go back to America but stay and keep his friendship and love. Also, he said that we should try to immitate that mind of Ecotopia for our future.
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A great little read. This is a fictionalized history of the events leading up to the secession of Northern California, Oregon and Washington to form a steady-state, environmentalist nation of Ecotopia along the Pacific Coast of the United States. In 1975, Callenbach had published a utopian novel called Ecotopia about the events; EE is its prequel, published in 1981.
Discussed how a teenage girl finds an easy way to generate electricity cheaply from seawater in a solar cell. and how the baddies o...more
Discussed how a teenage girl finds an easy way to generate electricity cheaply from seawater in a solar cell. and how the baddies o...more
Partner book to his "Ecotopica". Better in some ways, but mostly more-of-the-same in too many ways. Daydream fulfillment to such an implausible extent that it gets tiresome. The problems of the time, as bad as they were, didn't signal the end of the world, much to many liberals' surprise.
The only detail I can clearly recall is that some fellow invents a solar cell that can be made in a backyard kiln but has astonishing efficiency; enough that petroleum can be dispensed with, and it can be made b...more
The only detail I can clearly recall is that some fellow invents a solar cell that can be made in a backyard kiln but has astonishing efficiency; enough that petroleum can be dispensed with, and it can be made b...more
This is actually more of a favorite read, and more of a political template, than the original "sequel" Ecotopia.
The events leading up to secession of CA/OR/WA, with foundations for the political party which ring *oddly* similar to events in California more recently (federal vs. regional).
Great unschooling themes... with a narrative mostly told as a coming of age story for a teenage girl / scientific prodigy growing up in Bolinas and discovering a way to take down Big Oil.
The events leading up to secession of CA/OR/WA, with foundations for the political party which ring *oddly* similar to events in California more recently (federal vs. regional).
Great unschooling themes... with a narrative mostly told as a coming of age story for a teenage girl / scientific prodigy growing up in Bolinas and discovering a way to take down Big Oil.
I had to keep looking back to see when this book was published! A wonderful commentary on the energy crisis of the 1980s and completely applicable to today. A story of energy moguls trying to secure their control on the American economy and a bright student who cracks the code to photovoltaic cells... and beats corporations to releasing the product into public domain. Definitely a must-read for the eco-conscious looking for something positive to think about.
Just re-read this right after re-reading Ecotopia.
Oldie but a goody. Again, mostly for its prescience on what we do today that was considered radical in the book.
The 'big corporation' warfare bias got a bit too old, though.
Oldie but a goody. Again, mostly for its prescience on what we do today that was considered radical in the book.
The 'big corporation' warfare bias got a bit too old, though.
Environmental Society
The Northwest US cuts all ties from the US, shuts its borders, and creates its own country. 10 years later a reporter from the US is let in and discovers how Ecotopia works. I loved it.
The Northwest US cuts all ties from the US, shuts its borders, and creates its own country. 10 years later a reporter from the US is let in and discovers how Ecotopia works. I loved it.
Thoughtful, imaginative sequel to Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach, this book offers a nicely woven story on how to change your world. Ecotopia, written in the 70s amidst a political storm of environmental change, is as Callenbach confesses in Emerging, a quick pop book written by an activist author. Emerging, on the other hand, pieces together events laid out in the original. It shows how the residents of the Northern West Coast got mad about current politics, and how they constructively dealt wi...more
Life affirming antidote to the Bush years; a blueprint for sanity. A refuge for blue-state secessionists ( ya, that's me).
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Wonderful prequel to Ecotopia. Read the book over 20 years ago.
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If you care about global warming, read this book.
70s environmentalism wish-fulfillment in all of its decentralized, self-reliant, righteous and crunchy glory. It's much less entertaining than Ecotopia due to all-around boring writing and a plot that skips around far too often. But Callenbach's enthusiasm is infectious, the characters are generally likable and the book gets my west coast jingoism going. Modern environmentalism as a movement could use more of this old-school environmentalism, especially the DIY and local action mindset. Cascadia...more
This was read for ENG 360A Class taken in 2007.
Readings Environmental Novel English Class required book.
Readings Environmental Novel English Class required book.
a book ahead of its times conceptially...poor writing and story design though
This book is hopeful, to me, about future solutions. Read it and be inspired! And it is a great story! Cool girl, scientist character.
A prequel to Ecotopia - best read 2nd
Fun--a little silly.
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