Ecotopian fiction is a subgenre of Utopian fiction where the author posits either a utopian or dystopian world revolving around environmental conservation or destruction. www. ... Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. ... Utopia, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better society, a perfect society that does not exist (yet). ... This article is about the philosophical concept. ... Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ...

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia was the first example of this, followed by Callenbach's Ecotopia Emerging and Kim Stanley Robinson with his Three Californias Trilogy. Robinson has also edited a collection of short ecotopian fiction, called Future_Primitive:_The_New_Ecotopias. Other examples are Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing and Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home. Much of Sheri S. Tepper's work also centers around this theme as well as ecofeminism. Ernest Callenbach (born April 3, 1929) is an American writer. ... Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. ... Kim Stanley Robinson at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. ... The Three Californias Trilogy consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, that depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California (also known as Orange County Trilogy). ... Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias, Tor Books, 1994, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson, republishes notable short works of utopian fiction and dystopian fiction, incorporating elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism. ... Starhawk (born Miriam Samos in 1951) is a American writer, activist and Witch. ... The Fifth Sacred Thing (ISBN 0553373803) is a post-apocalyptic novel by Starhawk written in 1993. ... Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. ... Sheri Stewart Tepper (born 1929) is a prolific author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels, frequently with a feminist slant. ... Ecofeminism is a biocentric environmental movement with cultural and social concerns. ...

Ecotopian literature deals with themes of responsibility toward nature’s “web of life” and Planet Earth, as well as toward people. When set in modern times (as it usually is), the theme of appropriate use of technology is inevitably part of the story (it may actually be a main theme, or simply a sub-theme). As with any novel, the authors’ intent is that the stories are engaging in human terms, but issues of sensitivity to the environment, ethics, planning, and keeping things manageable (or within a human scale)are brought in. Human scale means of a scale comparable to a human being. A number of characteristic physical quantities can be associated with the human body, the human mind, and the preservation of human life. ...

Respected thinkers like Lewis Mumford, Aldous Huxley, Buckminster Fuller, Ivan Illich, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Hazel Henderson – many of them considered important pioneers – have thus had an influence on the Ecotopian authors. Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science, also noted for his study of cities. ... Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. ... In the US postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ... Ivan Illich Ivan Illich (Vienna, September 4, 1926 - Bremen, December 2, 2002), polymath, polemicist. ... Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). ... Known as a Futurist and a Evolutionary Encomiast Hazel Henderson the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization and Planetary Citizenship (the later with Daisaku Ikeda). ...