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Published in hardcover for the first time in forty years, two
classics of environmental science fiction "One of the most
important utopian novels of the twentieth century that still has
very important lessons to teach us. It will always convey to
perfection the wild optimism of that moment: a feeling we need to
recapture, adjusted for our time."-Kim Stanley Robinson on Ecotopia
Collected in one handsome volume for the first time, The Complete
Ecotopia presents an early classic of environmental science fiction
in its entirety. Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981),
which paint detailed portraits of a healthier earth and a happier
society, became foundational texts for a new wave of environmental
activists, and they still contain an abundance of ideas yet to be
realized. Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopian saga anticipated climate
fiction by more than a decade, sold approximately one million
copies and was translated into one dozen languages, and predicted a
host of innovations running from C-SPAN to widespread recycling.
This edition includes two retrospective essays by the author, as
well as an updated foreword by Heyday founder Malcolm Margolin. An
important document of utopian ideas from the sixties and seventies,
The Complete Ecotopia is also a stimulating read for
environmentalists today-one that tells a bold, inventive, and
adventurous story.
Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and
Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation,
Ecotopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship,
revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now, this mysterious
country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter
Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and
admiration. But Ecotopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows
to be true about government and human nature itself, forcing him to
choose between two competing views of civilization.Since it was
first published in 1975, Ecotopia has inspired readers throughout
the world with its vision of an ecologically and socially
sustainable future. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes
Ernest Callenbach's final essay, "An Epistle to the Ecotopians,"
and a new foreword by Callenbach's close friend and publisher,
Malcolm Margolin.
"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, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.
Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling climax.
Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer
complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and
the USA. In his book "The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very
English Revolution" (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of
the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would
be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters
and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This
completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the
recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders
proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in
miniature, of the people at large'. Whether or not this was true at
the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing
campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the
pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means
that the US Constitution could now better be described as a
kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional
members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged)
to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of
America'. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes
an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.
Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer
complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and
the USA. In his book "The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very
English Revolution" (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of
the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would
be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters
and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This
completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the
recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders
proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in
miniature, of the people at large'. Whether or not this was true at
the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing
campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the
pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means
that the US Constitution could now better be described as a
kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional
members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged)
to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of
America'. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes
an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.
Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first
century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic
ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and
Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, "Ecology: A Pocket Guide"
forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or
read straight through. An accessible, informative guide to
achieving ecoliteracy, it tells the story of the amazing
interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the
ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental
degradation. This new edition has been updated throughout and
features five new essays on the topics of biotechnology, global
warming, migration, smell, and tourism.
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Streetopia (Paperback)
Erick Lyle; Text written by Rebecca Solnit, Chris Kraus, Sarah Schulman, Chris Johanson, …
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