ECOTOPIA
Book ID/图书代码： 12731110B37830
English Summary/英文概要： "Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.
Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia’s strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston’s conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling climax.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《生态乌托邦》的雄心是提供一幅吸引人的画面，即我们现在经常挂在嘴边的“可持续”到底是什么样子，向大家展示一种比较容易理解的新的生活方式，确保人类可以比较舒服地在地球上生存更长时间。
书中描绘的许多日常生活细节，使得许多读者都为之着迷，字里行间流露出的希望与乐观，对年轻读者格外有吸引力。它揭示了蒙在环境退化、社会异化、社区衰败、个人压力等看似不可避免的表象上的面纱，教导我们：敢于做梦是件好事，乐于尝试新观念新想法是件好事，想象自己快乐幸福是件好事，与我们的同伴拥有相互支持关系同样是件好事。(AC)
Awards/获奖情况：编辑推荐
《生态乌托邦》：一本英文版的《桃花源记》，一本西方“乐活族”的宣言书，一本影响20世纪70年代的思想书，一本与《1984》、《美丽新世界》齐名的地下经典。十种语言，百万销量，生态可持续社会的 幅生动画像。
如果你不敢梦想，你就不会有力量
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一部环境经典……具有深刻的预见性。——《时代》
在威尔斯、凡尔纳、赫胥黎和奥威尔之后，最新的名字就是卡伦巴赫，生态乌托帮的创造者。——《洛杉矶时报》
对所有关心地球和我们自身未来的人来说，这本书绝对不容错过。——卡普拉
"A classic of earth consciousness." —Denis Hayes, original coordinator of Earth Day
"Essential reading for all who care about the earth’s future."—Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point
"None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society."—Ralph Nader
Here’s one of the many discussions of Ecotopia available on the internet. This one is from the University of California
https://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Ecotopia
In Germany a special edition in English, annotated in German, is used in high schools to teach English.
Here is a list of the various editions, in various languages, of the novel
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/3209155-ecotopia-the-notebooks-and-reports-of-william-westonhttps://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/3209155-ecotopia-the-notebooks-and-reports-of-william-weston
About the Author/作者介绍： 欧内斯特·卡伦巴赫（Ernest Callenbach,1929—），美国当代著名环保作家，1955-1991年间为加州大学出版社编辑、电影评论家、出版社下属刊物《电影季刊》的创立者与编辑之一。代表作为《生态乌托邦》，另著有《生态乌托帮之诞生》等书。
现居拍克利私人生态园，经常在世界各地进行环保讲演。
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