Author:
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books
ISBN: 9781597145527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Complete Ecotopia
Author:
Publisher: Banyan Tree Books
ISBN: 9781597145527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Banyan Tree Books
ISBN: 9781597145527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ecotopia
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553348477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553348477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.
Ecotopia
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Ecotopian Sketchbook
Author: Judith Clancy
Publisher: Synergistic Press
ISBN: 9780960432028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Synergistic Press
ISBN: 9780960432028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ecotopia 2121
Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628726148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 795
Book Description
A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" Winner A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati across Europe couldn't get enough of its blend of social fantasy with a deep desire for a better world. Five hundred years later, Ecotopia 2121 once again harnesses the power of the utopian imagination to confront our current problems, among them climate change, and offer a radical, alternative vision for the future of our troubled planet. Depicting one hundred cities around the globe—from New York to San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Beijing, Vienna, Singapore, Cape Town, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai—Alan Marshall imagines how each may survive and prosper. A striking, full-color scenario painting illustrates each city. The chapters tell how each community has found either a social or technological innovation to solve today's crises. Fifteen American cities are covered. Around the world, urban planners like to tailor scenarios for the year 2020, to take advantage of the metaphor of 20-20 vision. In Ecotopia 2121, the vision may be fuzzy, but its sharp insights, captivating illustrations, and playful storytelling will keep readers coming back again and again.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628726148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 795
Book Description
A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" Winner A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati across Europe couldn't get enough of its blend of social fantasy with a deep desire for a better world. Five hundred years later, Ecotopia 2121 once again harnesses the power of the utopian imagination to confront our current problems, among them climate change, and offer a radical, alternative vision for the future of our troubled planet. Depicting one hundred cities around the globe—from New York to San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Beijing, Vienna, Singapore, Cape Town, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai—Alan Marshall imagines how each may survive and prosper. A striking, full-color scenario painting illustrates each city. The chapters tell how each community has found either a social or technological innovation to solve today's crises. Fifteen American cities are covered. Around the world, urban planners like to tailor scenarios for the year 2020, to take advantage of the metaphor of 20-20 vision. In Ecotopia 2121, the vision may be fuzzy, but its sharp insights, captivating illustrations, and playful storytelling will keep readers coming back again and again.
Ecotopia Emerging
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9780976498612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In the Pacific Northwest, the Survivalist Party is formed, a political party dedicated to sustainable living. Bolinas resident Lou Swift discovers a new way to tap solar energy, but utility executives fight against further development of her invention.
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9780976498612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In the Pacific Northwest, the Survivalist Party is formed, a political party dedicated to sustainable living. Bolinas resident Lou Swift discovers a new way to tap solar energy, but utility executives fight against further development of her invention.
The Ecotopian Encyclopedia for the 80's
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915904549
Category : Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915904549
Category : Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Beware of Vegetarian Sharks
Author: Richard Greeman
Publisher: Richard Greeman
ISBN: 1430323078
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This illustrated collection of Greeman's Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays is a frontal attack on capitalism by a veteran socialist, scholar and activist. Greeman's satirical studies, which range from the Rebellious Sixties to our Decadent Decade, deal with globalized capitalism's crisis, revolutionary history and future prospects for a new society. Some titles: The Rolling Revolutions of 2011, Capitalism's Terminal Crisis? Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear? The Invisible International, Deconstructing the 'Threat' of Radical Islam, Religion and Repression in the U.S. (a Case of Political Pathology) Back in the U.S.S.R. Victor Serge and Ecotopia: A Bet You Can't Refuse.
Publisher: Richard Greeman
ISBN: 1430323078
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This illustrated collection of Greeman's Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays is a frontal attack on capitalism by a veteran socialist, scholar and activist. Greeman's satirical studies, which range from the Rebellious Sixties to our Decadent Decade, deal with globalized capitalism's crisis, revolutionary history and future prospects for a new society. Some titles: The Rolling Revolutions of 2011, Capitalism's Terminal Crisis? Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear? The Invisible International, Deconstructing the 'Threat' of Radical Islam, Religion and Repression in the U.S. (a Case of Political Pathology) Back in the U.S.S.R. Victor Serge and Ecotopia: A Bet You Can't Refuse.
The Dispossessed
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785764038
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785764038
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
Green Speculations
Author: Eric C. Otto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814212035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Science fiction goes green? Eric C. Otto explores literary science fiction's engagement with a central concern of our times: ecological degradation. Situated at the intersection of science fiction studies and environmental philosophy, Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism highlights key works of environmental science fiction that critique various human values for their roles in instigating such degradation. The books receiving ecocritical treatment in Green Speculations include George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (1949), Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest (1972), Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean (1986), Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993, 1994, 1996), and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009). Otto reads these and other important science fiction novels as educative in their representations of environmental issues and the environmental philosophies that have emerged in response to them. Green Speculations demonstrates how environmental science fiction can be read not only as reflecting the ideas of environmental philosophies such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, and ecosocialism, but also as instrumental in thinking through the tenets of these philosophies. As such, the book places science fiction at the center of environmentalism and considers the genre to be an essential tool for prompting needed social and cultural transformation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814212035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Science fiction goes green? Eric C. Otto explores literary science fiction's engagement with a central concern of our times: ecological degradation. Situated at the intersection of science fiction studies and environmental philosophy, Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism highlights key works of environmental science fiction that critique various human values for their roles in instigating such degradation. The books receiving ecocritical treatment in Green Speculations include George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (1949), Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest (1972), Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean (1986), Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993, 1994, 1996), and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009). Otto reads these and other important science fiction novels as educative in their representations of environmental issues and the environmental philosophies that have emerged in response to them. Green Speculations demonstrates how environmental science fiction can be read not only as reflecting the ideas of environmental philosophies such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, and ecosocialism, but also as instrumental in thinking through the tenets of these philosophies. As such, the book places science fiction at the center of environmentalism and considers the genre to be an essential tool for prompting needed social and cultural transformation.