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Callenbach is the first to admit that his futuristic book is not a great work of literature.

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"I was pretty lucky in some of the things I wrote about coming true, but the basic thrust is not that original," Callenbach said in a phone interview from his home in Berkeley.

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Callenbach, who edited the prestigious journal Film Quarterly at the University of California Press from 1958 until he retired in 1991, has also written nonfiction books on ecological issues and the fictional prequel "Ecotopia Emerging."

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Callenbach, who grew up in Pennsylvania and went to college at the University of Chicago, visited relatives in Wisconsin when he was young.

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"The skill of these industrial areas can be put to use," Callenbach said.

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Earnest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, posited this rule of thumb.

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A free-ranging conversation between Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, author of ECOTOPIA, and Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA, about our green-powered future.

Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

A free-ranging conversation between Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, author of ECOTOPIA, and Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA, about our green-powered future.

Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

A free-ranging conversation between Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, author of ECOTOPIA, and Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA, about our green-powered future.

Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

Author Ernest Callenbach creates a sustainable society where recycling is required, food wastes are turned into organic fertilizer, and most energy comes from solar, sea, wind and geothermal power.

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