Editing Ecotopia (section)

{{Short description|1975 novel by Ernest Callenbach}}
{{About|the book||Ecotopia (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox book
| name              = Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
| image             = File:Ecotopia, first edition.jpg
| image_size        = 200px
| caption           = Cover of the first edition
| author            = [[Ernest Callenbach]]
| country           = United States
| language          = English
| genre             = [[Utopian novel]]
| publisher         = {{Ubl
  |[[Ernest Callenbach]] (self-published as Banyan Tree Books)
  |[[Bantam Books]] (1977)
  |30th-Anniversary edition, [[Heyday Books]] (2005)
}}
| release_date      = 1975
| media_type        = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages             = 181
| isbn              = 0-553-34847-7
| dewey             = 813.54 20
| congress          = PS3553.A424 E35 1990
| oclc              = 20169799
| followed_by       = [[Ecotopia Emerging]]
}}
'''''Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston''''' is a utopian novel by [[Ernest Callenbach]], published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological [[utopia]]s and was influential on the [[counterculture]] and the [[green politics|green movement]] in the 1970s and thereafter.  The author himself claimed that the society he depicted in the book is not a true utopia (in the sense of a perfect society), but, while guided by societal intentions and values, was ''im''perfect and in-process.<ref name="Callenbach, Ernest and Heddle, James">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/tYc9myGMmTc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210414202321/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYc9myGMmTc Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |author1=Callenbach, Ernest |author2=Heddle, James |title="Ecotopia Then & Now," an interview with Ernest Callenbach |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYc9myGMmTc |access-date=2013-04-06 |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Callenbach said of the story, in relation to Americans: "It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now.  But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center.  And we’d better get ready.  We need to know where we’d like to go."<ref name="timberg">Timberg, Scott (14 December 2008) [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/fashion/14ecotopia.html "The Novel That Predicted Portland"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>