HOPLAND, Calif. — On a hillside high above vineyards, olive groves and the meandering Russian River, John Schaeffer has built a low-carbon paradise. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

(May 3) Here we go again, dear diary. A fresh notebook with all those blank pages waiting to be filled. Good to be on the way at last. Alleghenies already receding behind us like pale green ripples on ...

In the afterword to the 30th-anniversary edition of his 1975 novel, Ernest Callenbach writes, “Looking back, it seems clear that Ecotopia was the first attempt to portray a sustainable society, and ...

This story is part of Fix’s Climate Fiction Issue, which explores how fiction can create a better reality. Check out the full issue here, including the short stories in Fix’s first-ever ...

The actor joins game studio Talkie and Conservation International on a city-building game that promotes going green. By John Gaudiosi With more 300 million people playing Facebook games daily, new Los ...

Ernest Callenbach is the kind of guy -- kindly, wise and playfully dedicated -- who seems to spring from the land itself in Berkeley. "The whole street was American elm," he told me as we walked ...

Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 novel “Ecotopia” described a mythical nation carved out of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States – Washington, Oregon and Northern California – on the premise of ...

People in nature -- Learning from others -- Rationality, emotion, and economics -- Political ecology -- Environmental justice -- "All politics is local," and all is now global -- Going past the land ...

Los Angeles and New York - In an effort to demonstrate how online games can effect positive change in the real world, independent games studio Talkie leveraged its presence at the annual Games for ...

Today, Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's Ecotopia is an established part of publishing's lore of rejected best-sellers. As the Washington Post's wrote in its obituary for Callenbach who passed away earlier ...