Product Description

This "prequel" to Callenbach’s classic Ecotopia dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment.

The story springs from harsh realities. Toxic contamination of air, water, and food has become intolerable. Nuclear meltdowns threaten. Military spending burdens the economy. Politicians squabble over outdated agendas while the country declines. But then dedicated people begin to respond in their own ways to the crisis, and fresh hope arises. A brash physics student, Lou Swift, invents a unique solar cell that will end dependence on polluting fossil energy. Marissa D’Amico decides to devote her life to the restoration of clear-cut and eroded forests. Her mother Laura organizes a commando group of cancer victims to disable plants making carcinogenic chemicals. A distinguished but disillusioned legislator, Vera Allwen, organizes a new grassroots party working toward a survival-oriented future. Joining with thousands of others, they take their lives into their own hands—fighting the corporate control that endangers their personal survival along with that of the earth. A panorama of history about to happen, Ecotopia Emerging weaves many individual destinies into an absorbing epic: the birth of a new nation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147819 in Books
• Published on: 1981-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 326 pages

Los Angeles Times
"The newest name after Wells, Huxley and Orwell."

Ralph Nader
"None of the happy conditions of Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society."

Renewal
"No one I’ve given this book to has been able to put it down."

Customer Reviews

A Good Idea...
Great ideas are brought up, and is a definite must-read for any environmentalist. The only drawback is that some plots are not well developed. I do not understand why anyone would rate this book below a three, but I did notice a lot of people who did rate this book low are from the South (i.e. Georgia).

Most reviews from Statesboro Georgia
Most of the Amazon reviews on this book are curiously from Statesboro Georgia. Perhaps the same individual writing multiple bad reviews.

I would recommend reading Ernest Callenbach's "Ecotopia" before reading "Ecotopia Emerging", as Ecotopia sets the groundwork for this book.

Ecotopia, I don't think so
In this particular novel Ernest Callenbach tries to really show his interest in how much better the world would be as an Ecotopia, but I feel as though many of his points would take so long to actually progress within our society that we wouldn't get anywhere from an ecotoia.
This book is about a girl by the name of Lou Swift and she builds a solar cell as an alternative way of energy. She ends up joining an organization that wants to form an Ecotopia. Some of their rules in my opinion were pointless such as, "no private car ownership, no production of carcinogens, and other rules that to me were off the wall.
I feel that the only reason you should read this book is if you are into the whole Ecotopia idea or you have to read it because your teacher told you to. Otherwise, I feel as though the book was a complete waste of my time because I didn't agree with any of the points that the author made about Ecotopia's and it was a slow paced book.