Ernest Callenbach (born April 3, 1929) is an American writer. April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was drawn into the then 'new wave' of serious attention to film as an art form. After six months in Paris at the Sorbonne, watching four films a day, he returned to Chicago and earned a Master’s degree in English and Communications. Map of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania highlighting Williamsport Williamsport is a city located in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The Sorbonne is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of Paris or the University of Paris in its entirety. ...

Callenbach then migrated to California. From 1955 to 1991, he was on the staff of the University of California Press (Berkeley). A general copywriter for a number of years, he edited the Press's Film Quarterly from 1958 until 1991. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

For many years Callenbach edited the Natural History Guides at the U.C. Press. He began to take environmental issues and their connections to human value systems, social patterns, and lifestyles just as seriously as he had taken film. He is therefore known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). He is said to have coined the word "ecotopia." The Green movement encompasses the Green parties of various countries, and rely on the ideals of the larger ecology movement, peace movement, conservation movement, environmental movement and general trend towards environmentalism. ... (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment. ... Utopian, 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, and never will . ... Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. ...

In terms of concepts of human involvement with the ecology, as well as some of the economic and social concepts, the Ecotopia books are related to what is known as the sustainability movement. Callenbach’s Ecotopian concept is not "Luddite" — he does not reject high technology, but rather his fictional society shows a conscious selectivity about technology. As an example, with its emphasis on personal rather than impersonal interaction, Callenbach’s Ecotopian society anticipates the development and liberal usage of videoconferencing. Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. ... The Luddites were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested – often by destroying textile machines – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs. ... A videoconference in progress using a dedicated device (Aethra) via ISDN and a computer for data interchange support A videoconference (also known as a videoteleconference) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. ...

Callenbach has been a part of the circle of West Coast technologists, architects, social thinkers, and scientists which has included such people as Ursula K. LeGuin, Sim Van der Ryn, Peter Calthorpe, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, J. Baldwin, and John Todd. As with a number of these others, he has been a speaker, discussion panellist, and essayist. 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. ... Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in sustainable architecture. ... Peter Calthorpe has been named one of twenty five innovators on the cutting edge by Newsweek magazine for his work redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America. ... Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. ... Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. ... James Tennant Baldwin (whose books and articles have been published under the names J. Baldwin, Jay Baldwin, and James T. Baldwin) is an American industrial designer and writer born in 1934. ... Dr. John Todd (1939- ) is an important biologist working in the field of ecological design. ...

Other books by Callenbach include:

• Living Poor With Style (1972)
• Ecotopia Emerging (1981)
• The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1981)
• Publisher's Lunch (1989)
• Ecology: A pocket guide (1998)
• Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less (1993)
• Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (2000)

External links

• Book covers and descriptions of his books

• E. Callenbach's Web site - biography, books, lectures, contact info
• Callenbach's - non-religious - Earth's Ten Commandments