The story is narrated by William Weston, a New York journalist, by way of his notebooks and dispatches - the first filed by an American reporter from inside the breakaway republic in 20 years. We see a good deal of Ecotopian San Francisco and Berkeley, but nothing at all of Ecotopian Portland or Seattle, let alone, say, Ecotopian Klamath Falls or Forks. London: Secker and Warburg.I say the novel is ostensibly about the Northwest because, in fact, all the action takes place in California, and most of it in the Bay Area. 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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