Ernest Callenbach, the author of Ecotopia, passed away on April 16th at the age of 83. I read Ecotopia in my early teens, during a family vacation in rural Oregon. Reading the worn paperback in small cabin in the woods that we had built with our own hands — the Ecotopian Pacific Coast secession fantasy seemed present and possible to my impressionable mind.
Tomdispatch.com recently published this essay forwarded from Callenbach’s publisher — his final commentary on the world as it is (and how it could and should be). In relation to my last post, Callenbach was an early/founding member of the Gaia Collective.