Bøger af Ernest Callenbach

Ernest Callenbachs science fiction-klassiker Økotopia handler om et samfund baseret på et anti-materialistisk fællesskab i pagt med naturen. Callenbachs spekulative vision om et andet USA – og en anden verden – har aldrig været mere aktuel end i dag, og de utopiske forestillinger i denne kultbog fortsætter med at inspirere nye generationer. Vi er i året 1999. Siden 1980, hvor den nordvestlige del af USA rev sig løs fra resten af Amerika og dannede Økotopia, har befolkningen her levet isoleret og opbygget et nyt samfund på et økologisk grundlag. Det er endelig lykkedes journalisten William Weston at få tilladelse til at rejse til Økotopia og som den første amerikaner siden løsrivelsen at studere og rapportere fra det økotopiske samfund. Som en anden Gulliver er Will til tider skræmt, til tider overvældet af de fremmede livsformer og de følelsesladede oplevelser med økotopikerne. Han opdager et samfund, der på fantastisk vis har formået at styre den økologiske og teknologiske udvikling. Et samfund, hvor forurening og ressourcespild er standset, hvor udbytning og undertrykkelse er historie, og hvor fællesskab, spontanitet og lighed mellem kønnene og alt levende er blevet en del af livet. Callenbachs Økotopia er en politisk og social utopi, der har inspireret en lang række af samtidens store science fiction-forfattere, herunder Kim Stanley Robinson, David Brin, Marge Piercy og Ursula K. Le Guin. ”Arvtageren til Wells, Verne, Huxley og Orwell.” – Los Angeles Times

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.

This best-selling children's book tells the true tale and adventures of Humphrey, a humpback whale who wandered seventy miles into the San Francisco Bay waters in 1985.

Originally self-published in 1975, Ecotopia has sold approximately one million copies over multiple editionsThis edition marks the first time both Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging have been available in one volumeA germinal text of the environmental movement, Ecotopia still has a very relevant ecological messageEcotopia has not been published in hardcover in 40 yearsAuthor Ernest Callenbach lived in Berkeley, CA

Business people need help reducing the impact of their companies on the environment. This book will help them identify what can be done, systematically set priorities, and create an action plan for implementing improvements. It will also help them sell an impact reduction program to their top management. In contrast to the current practice of "compliance auditing," a process focused on meeting governmental regulations, this Elmwood Institute guide shows how to conduct an "eco-audit" - a complete examination of an organization in relation to its long-term ecological sustainability. Such an audit scrutinizes every aspect of the organization and its operations, including product design and manufacture, management techniques, corporate culture, and goals. This book provides a comprehensive framework for companies that need to design their own audits. In addition, a set of thirteen checklists guide managers through the audit process, covering such topics as energy, materials, wastes, finance, marketing, transportation, and international business relations.

Arguing that the American Plains are within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country in 1999, this text shows how bringing back the buffalo and using wind to generate power are key to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.

Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and the USA.

Explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts. This work features the story of the interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. It features five essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.