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The impressive, environmentally benign technology Callenbach described in Ecotopia was based on research findings published in such journals as Scientific American. The author's story was woven using the fiber of technologies, lifestyles, folkways, and attitudes that were being reflected (from real-life experience) in the pages of, say, the Whole Earth Catalog and its successor CoEvolution Quarterly , as well as being depicted in newspaper stories, novels and films. Callenbach's main ideas for Ecotopian values and practices of were based on actual experimentation taking place in the American West.

The term ecotopia as a sub-genre of science fiction and utopian literature refers to this book.

The book is set in a 1999 future (25 years in the future, seen from 1974) and consists of the diary entries and reports of William Weston, a reporter who is the first American proper to investigate Ecotopia, a new formed country that broke from the USA in 1980. This country consists more or less of the territory of the former states of OregonOregon is a state located in the western United States bordering the Pacific Ocean, California, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Its northern border lies along the Columbia River and the east along the Snake River. Two north-south mountain ranges the Coasta and WashingtonWashington is a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It should not be confused with Washington, DC, the nation's capital. To avoid confusion, the state is often called Washington state . Although the state capital is Olympia, the largest c, plus northern CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh.

Together with Weston, who at the beginning is curious, but not really empathic about Ecotopia, we learn about the ecotopian train system, life style, war sports, politics (the president is a woman, Vera Allwen), gender relations, sexual freedom, energy production, agriculture, and so on. In the end, Weston becomes an Ecotopian himself.

The importance of this book is not so much to be found in its literary form, as in the lively imagination of a alternative and ecologically sound lifestyle on a greater scale, presented more or less realistically. It expressed on paper the dream of an alternative future held by many in the movements of the 1970s.

In 1981 Callenbach published Ecotopia Emerging , a multi-strand "prequel" suggesting how the sustainable nation of Ecotopia could have come into existence.

In the book Nine Nations of North AmericaThe Nine Nations of North America was a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. According to the book, North America can be divided into nine regions, or "nations", which have distinctive economic and cultural features. The regions do not always follow conv ( 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D) by Joel GarreauJoel Garreau (born 1948) is a journalist and author. Presently he works as the editor in charge of cultural revolution reporting at the Washington Post, as senior fellow at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and principal of The Garre, Ecotopia is meant as label for Northern California, most of Oregon and WashingtonWashington is a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It should not be confused with Washington, DC, the nation's capital. To avoid confusion, the state is often called Washington state . Although the state capital is Olympia, the largest c states, as well as coastal British ColumbiaBritish Columbia or simply B. French: la Colombie-Britannique is the westernmost of Canada's provinces. It was the sixth province to join the confederation of Canada (in 1871). As of 2004, the population was 4,168,123 British Columbians . Geography Its ca and Alaska.

See also: Cascadia