Somehow, though I was born and raised in capital of the future Ecotopia (San Francisco) and living in the Ecotopian hotspot of Santa Cruz when this book came out in 1975, I never read this novel about the revolutionary secession of northern California, Oregon, and Washington from the United States and the creation of a deurbanized, deindustrialized, and ecologically “stable-state” society.
He is also the coordinator of the “Global Utopias” project of the Center for Historical Interpretation. London: Secker and Warburg.Mark Steinberg is a professor in the department of history who works on histories of the city, revolution, emotion, violence, space, and utopia.
In: Encyclopedia of environmental issues, Revised Edition (pp. Ecological utopias: Envisioning the sustainable society.
From animal rights to radical ecology (pp. Zimmerman (Ed.), Environmental philosophy. Holistic environmental ethics and the problem of ecofascism. The pursuit of ecotopia: Lessons from indigenous and traditional societies for the human ecology of our modern world. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īnderson, E. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The entry briefly situates the novel as a utopian text that is relevant in the context of the discourse on ecologically ideal living, and then it deals with two philosophical presuppositions of the fictitious state “Ecotopia,”. This entry, however, is focusing on the novel Ecotopiaand its description of an ideal ecological state by the same name. Sometimes the term ecotopia is also used loosely to refer to real existing ecological communities or blueprints of such communities. The novel illustrates how these issues can be addressed ideally and practically. The book discusses a wide variety of environmental topics of ethical relevance, including issues pertaining to organic food, healthy eating, organic agriculture, and sustainable forestry. Ecotopia, a novel written 1975 by Ernest Callenbach (1929–2012), describes an ideal ecologically oriented sustainable society (an ecological eutopia).
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