A prequel, Ecotopia Emerging, appeared in 1981. A small, cooperatively owned press published it in 1975. But he was reading and thinking about natural history, conservation, ecology, technology, and Native American culture-threads that came together in a utopian novel he was writing that year that came to be called Ecotopia. Aside from the occasional peace march, he didn’t participate in the revolutionary turmoil that defined Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. In 1972, Ernest Callenbach was an editor with the University Press of California in Berkeley, “leading a normal, bourgeois life,” he says.
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