About this title: Here is a new, updated edition of the classic environmental novel, offering a vision of a future both socially and environmentally sane. It has given its name to a region of the country and to the dream of countless readers.
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Edition: Bantam ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780553126846ISBN:0553126849
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1978 Bantam paperback. NOT EX LIB! Clean, lightly toned pages with some reading wear, gently creased spine, light edgewear, covers mildly scuffed. 213 p. A Bantam book. Bantam books novel.. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553261837ISBN:0553261835
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780553348477ISBN:0553348477
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. Solid Book with Highlighting, Underlining & A Couple of Markings. Edge Worn Cover with Creasing & Used Bookstore Stickers/Stamps. Ships Today with Free Delivery Confirmation! Satisfaction Always Guaranteed! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, N.Y.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780553348477ISBN:0553348477
Description: Good- G-trade paperback, shelf wear to cover edges and spine ends, page edges yellowed, text has some underlining and notes in margins. read more
Description: Very good. Bantam Books Reprint Softcover(MMPB) Edition. Some wear to cover, slight tanning due to age, otherwise in Excellent Condition! Ships Fast! ! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1990-03-01
ISBN-13:9780553348477ISBN:0553348477
Description: New. New Book. There is slight time wear. Otherwise looks new. Free tracking # included! International buyers are welcome. We ship every business day. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780553348477ISBN:0553348477
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal 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 impressive, environmentally ... read more
"Read most of this one a while ago, and, despite being a lifelong environmentalist, I just couldn't finish it (and I almost always finish books). I'd be tempted to give it fewer stars if it were fresh in my memory, but I want to be fair.
I'd be interested in a reread now that I'm more versed in environmental studies and feminism, but I can't muster the enthusiasm to pick it back up. One reviewer reminded us that it was written in the 1970s and should be read with that in mind, but I have a hard time reading oppressive writings from any time period.
The premise really excited me, but the narrative just didn't deliver."
"This is about how the West Coast, that bastion of enlightenment, manages to break away from the rest of the Union. Callenbach was apparently as ignorant of history as Governor Rick Perry.
Ah, but that isn't the intentional/unintentional irony. It's that I couldn't be sure if Ecotopia was supposed to be a Utopia or a Dystopia. I think the former, and to me that was the irony. For this ecologically perfect community of free hot tub love is the heavy hand of the State. Those who didn't fit into this community were like the residents of Beta 2 who were "not of the body." Callenbach is apparently unaware of the groupthink involved in creating such a culture. This is a dystopia with a pretty face, like Walden 2 or Brave New World."
"Okay, so it's certainly not a great book, but it has that same appeal as a B-movie.
Imagine that Northern California, Oregon and Washington secede from the union to create their own country... Ecotopia. A land full of hippies, activists, powerful women, and people who recycle.
This book, written from the fictional perspective of a New York Times reporter, visiting this land as the first American on Ecotopian soil since the secession 20 years ago, reads partially like a collection of articles, and partially like a romance novel. Some of the supposed future hits the nail right on the head (video disks, picture phones, ear pieces one can use for communication, RECYCLING), but some of it is so ridiculous it's funny."
"I loved this book if only for the idea that CA, OR and WA kick out all of the planet killing types, secede from the Union and become our own "green" nation. In a very short time we clean up our water and air, get off the grid, get rid of our cars, go vegan, ... My only gripe with this book is that it tends to drag. It is written in two parts: the notebooks, which are the written accounts, are more clinical than the reports, which are more of a first-hand, "Alice in Wonderland" view of everything. I found myself skipping the notebooks and just reading the reports (or was it the other way around? You'll figure it out)."
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