Ecotopia Revisited: Author/Visionary Ernest Callenbach June 14, 2008

Today everyone knows that the future of human society is threatened by global warming and other environmental disasters. Imagine a society where community consciously makes ecological choices over profit! Local Bay Area author Ernest Callenbach's seminal novel, Ecotopia (1975), does imagine such a world.

Ecotopia, the portrait of an ecologically sustainable society in a future age, was initially rejected by virtually every publisher in New York. Callenbach then self-published the book. It went on to become an underground classic, was ultimately issued in mass-market paperback by Bantam, and is still used in classrooms all over the country.

It has sold over a million copies, has been translated into nine languages, including Japanese, and was influential in Germany at the time their Green Party emerged. In 1981, Callenbach published a "prequel," Ecotopia Emerging, which tells how 'Ecotopia' comes into being.

Join us as we hear Ernest Callenbach reflect on his writings in view of the emerging geopolitical, environmental and economic crises we face in the 21st century.

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