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Callenbach, Ernest was born on April 3, 1929 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States.
(This prequel to Callenbach's classic Ecotopia is a multi-...)
This prequel to Callenbach's classic Ecotopia is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment. The story springs from harsh realities: Toxic contamination of air, water, and food has become intolerable. Nuclear meltdowns threaten. Military spending burdens the economy. Politicians squabble over outdated agendas while the country declines. But then dedicated people begin to respond in their own ways to the crisis, and a fresh hope arises. A panorama of history about to happen, Ecotopia Emerging weaves many individual destinies into an absorbing epic: the birthing pains of a new nation.
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(The true adventures of Humphrey the Wayward whale This ...)
The true adventures of Humphrey the Wayward whale 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 in 1985.
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Chapters on how to save money in Eating, Getting Around, Dwelling, Furnishing, Clothing, Staying Fit, Raising Children, Fun and Games, and Dying. Some information is outdated like the chapter, Avoiding the Draft and some suggestions may seem silly; but the book contains lots of good ideas on saving money.
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Nearly one million copies sold in nine languages Twenty years have passed since northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ecotopia. Now, this isolated, mysterious country welcomes its first American visitor, jaded reporter Will Weston, who explores a society structured around sustainability and social justice. Innovative and unsettling ideas unravel everything that Weston knows to be true about government, economics, and human nature and ultimately force him to choose between two competing views of civilization. Since it was first published in 1975, Ecotopia has inspired and challenged readers throughout the world. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes Callenbach's final essay, ''An Epistle to the Ecotopians,'' written in the weeks before his death in 2012, and a new foreword by Callenbach's close friend and Heyday publisher, Malcolm Margolin.
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Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and the USA. In his book The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in miniature, of the people at large’. Whether or not this was true at the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means that the US Constitution could now better be described as a kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged) to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of America’. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.
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(A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ec...)
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. 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, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.
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Callenbach, Ernest was born on April 3, 1929 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bachelor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1949. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1953.
Editor, Film Quarterly, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1958-1991; editor books, Film Quarterly, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1958-1991.
(The true adventures of Humphrey the Wayward whale This ...)
(This prequel to Callenbach's classic Ecotopia is a multi-...)
(BY Callenbach, Ernest ( Author ) { A Citizen Legislature/...)
(Nearly one million copies sold in nine languages Twenty...)
( The challenge of the '90s is to create sustainable soci...)
(A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ec...)
(Chapters on how to save money in Eating, Getting Around, ...)
( Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, of...)
(Book by Callenbach, Ernest, Phillips, Michael)
(First Edition)
(Rare Book)
Member National Writers Union.
Married Christine Leefeldt, May 19, 1978. Children: Joanna, Hans.