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| - Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of ain the 1970s and after. The impressive, environmentally benign energy, homebuilding, and transportation 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 were based on actual experimentation taking place in the American West. As an example, Callenbach's fictional Crick School was based upon Pinel School, an alternative school outside Martinez, California once attended by his son. The author’s Ecotopian concept does not reject high technology, but rather members of his fictional society show a conscious selectivity about technology, so that human health and sanity might be preserved, as also social and ecological health might be. For instance, Callenbach’s story anticipated the development and liberal usage of videoconferencing.In the 1970s when Ecotopia was written and published “many prominent counterculture and new left thinkers decried the consumption and overabundance that they perceived as characteristic of post-World War Two America”. The citizens of Ecotopia were of the same mind, they were looking for a balance between themselves and nature. They were “literally sick of bad air, chemicalized food, and lunatic advertising. They turned to politics because it was finally the only route to self-preservation.” In the mid-20th century as “firms grew in size and complexity citizens needed to know the market would still serve the interests for those it claimed to exist”. Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a shot at the fact that many people did not feel the market and the government was serving them in the way they wanted them to. This book was “a protest against consumerism and materialism, among other aspects of American life”. The term "ecotopian fiction", as a sub-genre of science fiction and utopian fiction, refers to this book. (en)
- Ökotopia. Notizen und Reportagen von William Weston aus dem Jahre 1999 ist ein Zukunftsroman von Ernest Callenbach aus dem Jahre 1975. Die im Buch beschriebene Gesellschaft war eine der ersten ökologischen Utopien und hatte großen Einfluss auf die Gegenkultur und die Entwicklung der grünen Bewegung Ende der 1970er. Das eindrucksvolle umweltschonende Energiemanagement, das nachhaltige Bauwesen und die reparaturfreundliche Technik, welche in Ökotopia beschrieben werden, basieren auf bereits real existierenden Pilot-Projekten, Forschungen und Entdeckungen, die bereits zuvor in Artikeln in Fachzeitschriften wie dem Scientific American veröffentlicht und diskutiert wurden. Die Geschichte ist ein feines Gewebe aus Handlungs- und Motivfäden über neue technologische Errungenschaft, soziale Entwicklungen, Lebensstile, eingebürgerte Bräuche, und einer teils absichtlichen, teils erzwungenen Abgrenzung gegenüber dem American Way of Life. Damit verbunden ist eine tendenzielle Abkehr vom Haben zum Sein, eine bewusstere Wahrnehmung der Umgebung und Lebensumstände und daraus resultierend mehr Reflexion über den eigenen Lebenswandel, die Gemeinschaft und die Zusammenhänge, ein vernetztes Denken. Das Ökotopia-Konzept verteufelt die modernen Hochtechnologien nicht, lehrt aber einen sehr kritischen Umgang und legt Wert auf die Technologiefolgenabschätzung und die nachhaltige Entwicklung gerade auch unter Berücksichtigung sozialer, ökologischer und gesellschaftlicher Bedürfnisse und Auswirkungen. So beschrieb Callenbach in dem Roman bereits z. B. die Entwicklung und den allgemeinen Gebrauch von Videokonferenzen. Ökotopia kann dem Genre Ökofiktion (engl. ecotopian fiction) zugerechnet werden, einem Sub-Genre von Science Fiction, Zukunftsliteratur und Utopie. (de)
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| - Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of ain the 1970s and after. The impressive, environmentally benign energy, homebuilding, and transportation 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 were based on actual experimentation taking place in the American West. As an example, Callenbach's fictional Crick School was based upon Pinel School, an alternative school outside Martinez, California once attended by his son. (en)
- Ökotopia. Notizen und Reportagen von William Weston aus dem Jahre 1999 ist ein Zukunftsroman von Ernest Callenbach aus dem Jahre 1975. (de)
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