Ernest Callenbach

Ernest Callenbach (Williamsport, 3 april 1929 - Berkeley, 16 april 2012) was an American writer, film critic, and editor. He is best known as the author of the ecologically-utopian novel Ecotopia (1975) and as a follower of simple living . ==Life Course[ Edit] == Ernest Callenbach was born in rural Pennsylvania. He went on to study at the University of Chicago, where he was attracted to the new, serious attention to film as an artistic medium. After six months at the Sorbonne in Paris returned C back to Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in English and communication studies. He moved toCaliforniain 1955, where he was editor of the academic journal Film Quarterly. In Berkeley, right in the heart of the counterculture of the 1960s grew after Callenbachs interest in environmental issues, and more durable life and in 1972 he gave the manual Living Poor With Style from. In 1975 followed the novel Ecotopia, which he himself issued. The novel, in which an American journalist visiting the isolated and environmentally friendly west coast region of the US 20 years after that had torn off, became a best seller and cult classic, which nowadays to universities be read in types of lessons about ecological literature. In 1981, a prequel, Ecotopia Emerging, showing how the public consensus for such a Ecotopia could have come into being.

He was part of a group of ' green ' thinkers, scientists and engineers to the us west coast, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Sim Van der Ryn, Peter Calthorpe, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, j. Baldwin and John Todd belonged. [1]

Callenbach died on 16 april 2012 at the age of 83 at the hands of cancer at his home in Berkeley. [2] ==Bibliography[ Edit] ==
 * 1972- Living Poor With Style
 * 1975- Ecotopia
 * 1981- Ecotopia Emerging
 * 1981- The Ecotopian Encyclopedia for the 80 's: A Survival Guide for the Age of Inflation
 * 1985- A Citizen Legislature (with Phil Michael Lambert)
 * 1986- Humphrey: The Wayward Whale (with Christine Leefeldt)
 * 1989- Publisher's Lunch
 * 1993- Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less
 * 1998- Ecology: A Pocket Guide
 * 2000- Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains