We begin with Weston’s apprehensive first journal entry and column composed on his way to the country, unsure of what he will find when he gets there, since the only information Americans have about Ecotopia comes from rumor and speculation, most of which has been negative. A near-fine copy.The novel itself consists solely of Weston’s writings, both the twenty-four articles he writes and files for the Times-Post during his visit to Ecotopia, interspersed with his personal journal entries from the duration of his trip. Original colour pictorial wrappers, perfect bound.
Scott Timberg, "The Novel That Predicted Portland", New York Times, 12 December 2008, available online Elaine Woo, "Ernest 'Chick' Callenbach wrote 'Ecotopia,' an influential novel about an environmental utopia", The Washington Post, 25 April 2012, available online. and broadened the meaning of ecology" (quoted in The Washington Post). His book took it to a different level of possibility. Environmentalists had been focusing on pollution inversions, rivers catching fire because of oil slicks, things like that. Ralph Nader, who later endorsed the book in a blurb, remarked: "It came out at just the right time in terms of the environmental movement. After an excerpt in Harper's Weekly was favourably received, Bantam decided to publish the next edition.
Somebody said the ecology trend was over" (quoted in the NYT). Some said it didn't have enough sex and violence, or that they couldn't tell if it were a novel or a tract. It was self-published in an initial run of 2,500 copies, with Callenbach remembering that "it was rejected by every significant publisher in New York. A widely admired futuristic novel by the American film scholar and environmentalist Ernest "Chick" Callenbach (1929-2012), Ecotopia was strangely prescient and remarkably rational in its predictions of the ways in which toxic living could threaten health and sustainability. Ecotopia, a cult favourite and one of the first ecological utopias ever written, was highly influential on 1970s counterculture and the sustainability movement. First edition, first printing, inscribed in red ink on the initial blank, "For Tee, with love, Chick".
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