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Ernest Callenbach (Ernest William Callenbach) was born on 3 April, 1929 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Ernest Callenbach's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Ernest William Callenbach
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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April 1929
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Williamsport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of death 16 April, 2012
Died Place Berkeley, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Ernest William Callenbach (April 3, 1929 – April 16, 2012) was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent.

1955

From 1955 to 1991, he was on the staff of the University of California Press (Berkeley).

1958

A general copywriter for a number of years, he edited the Press's Film Quarterly from 1958 until 1991.

He also occasionally taught film courses at U.C. and at San Francisco State University.

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 was heavily influenced by Edward Abbey.

Callenbach talked publicly about being influenced, during work on his novel Ecotopia, by numerous streams of thought: scientific discoveries in the fields of ecology and conservation biology; the urban-ecology planning movement, concerned with an approach to urban planning; and the soft-energy movement, championed by Amory Lovins and others.

1975

He became famous due to his 1975 utopian novel Ecotopia.

Born into a farming family in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Callenbach 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.

Callenbach then moved to California.

Callenbach is known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological "utopias" Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981), and also The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1981), Bring Back the Buffalo! (1995), and Ecology: A Pocket Guide (1998).

(While his first novel popularized the term "ecotopia," the term was actually coined by the ethnographer E. N. Anderson.)

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.

In Ecotopia ecologically compatible high-technology exists alongside postmaterialistic attitudes and lifestyles.

As an example, with its emphasis on personal rather than impersonal interaction, Callenbach's Ecotopian society anticipates the development and liberal usage of videoconferencing.

Indeed, for all his involvement with print publishing, Callenbach remained quite interested in visual media.

Aspects of his book Ecotopia in some ways anticipated C-SPAN — which came into being a few years later — because in the story the daily life of the legislature and some of that of the judicial courts is televised in this fictional society, and televised debates (including technical debates concerning ecological problems) meet a need and desire among citizens.

Callenbach was a part of the circle of West Coast technologists, architects, social thinkers, and scientists which included Ursula K. Le Guin, Sim Van der Ryn, Peter Calthorpe, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, J. Baldwin, and John Todd.

As with some of these others, he was often a speaker, discussion panellist, and essayist.

2006

In 2006 Callenbach introduced the story of a real-world community movement in Japan that is reminiscent, in its aims and practices, of his Ecotopian society.

He visited Japan and investigated the Yamagishi movement.

He found that it encompassed some three dozen intentional communities founded on the same underlying principles: living an ecologically based integration of people with agriculture (pig, cattle, and chicken livestock raising, and organic-vegetable and fruit farming), and living a social life based on principles of democracy, mutual understanding, support, and health.

Each individual settlement is referred to as jikkenji ('demonstration community for the world').

2009

In 2009, Callenbach was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Freiburg.

Freiburg is noted for its renewable energy industry and has been called a "green utopia".

2012

He died of cancer on April 16, 2012, in Berkeley, California.

...if you reflect on our change from thoughtless trash-tossing to virtually universal recycling, or from the past in which smokers didn't hesitate to blow smoke in anybody's face to our present restrictions on smoking in public places, it's clear that shared ideas about acceptable or desirable behavior can change markedly.

Such changes occurred without anybody getting arrested in the dark of night.

Further changes will come...