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Alameda Public Affairs Forum, in co-sponsorship with Books, Inc. of Alameda, presents:

Ernest Callenbach,

Author and Visionary

"Ecotopia Revisted"

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Alameda Free Library, Conference Rooms A&B

1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA

Today everyone knows that the future of human society is threatened by global warming and other environmental disasters. Imagine a society where community consciously makes ecological choices over profit! 

Bay Area author Ernest Callenbach's seminal novel, Ecotopia (1975), does imagine such a world. Ecotopia, the portrait of an ecologically sustainable society in a future ages, was initially rejected by virtually every publisher in New York. Callenbach then self-published the book. 

It went on to become an underground classic, was ultimately issued in mass-market paperback by Bantam, and is still used in classrooms all over the country. It has sold over a million copies, has been translated into nine languages, including Japanese, and was influential in Germany at the time their Green Party emerged. 

In 1981, Callenbach published a prequel, Ecotopia Emerging, which tells how 'Ecotopia' comes into being.