ECOTOPIA Then & Now

This pilot interview for a projected series that never materialized was recorded in Seattle April 6, 1982. Visionary Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach is interviewed by James Heddle, then Director of the Graduate Psychology Program at Antioch University Seattle. Callenbach talks about his motivation for writing the classic novels, Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging, and his vision for a peaceful, democratic, ecologically sustainable society. Still intensely relevant after all these years...
For more info: http://ernestcallenbach.com
See also NYT article 'The Novel That Predicted Portland': http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/fashion/14ecotopia.html

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[inremembranceofruth]

Yes - Mr. Callenbach was/is brilliant. In the most down-to-earth, practical, substantive sort of way. I knew this as soon as I began to read "Ecotopia" about 8 years ago. Was astonished by his vision, his foresight, etc. Perceived "Ecotopia" as a handbook by which we could dramatically begin to live differently (and vastly better!) starting ...tomorrow! How I regret I did not know of his (work) decades ago - and how regretful that so few of us still do - or are so resistant.

[I967]

and the host sits there looking very much...uhh...yeah...what the hell is this jocosely looking guy babbling about? and after the show he probably got out of the studio, hopped into his full-size v8 buick, drove off and forgot the whole thing.

[myhalfof]

Yeah, pretty strange how these characters in the 1980s were so far "ahead of their time." Now that the world is really changing as they predicted, we need their advice and ability to imagine the near future that's to come next...

Read science fiction!

[pgm98387]

WOW!

This was in 1982?

[ShaktiLila]

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