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nytimes.com - 12/14/2008

The Novel That Predicted Portland

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“Ecotopia,” the '70s cult novel, has seeped into the American groundwater without becoming well known. >

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DrumBeat: December 14, 2008
The Oil Drum — ... Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure. The Novel That Predicted Portland SOMETIMES a book, or an idea, can ...

The Novel That Predicted Portland
Peak Oil News — ... president, more Hillary Clinton than Sarah Palin, rules this nation, from Northern California up through Oregon and Washington. “ ‘Ecotopia’ became almost immediately absorbed into the popular culture,” said Scott Slovic, a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a pioneer of the growing literature-and-the-environment movement. “You hear people talking about the idea of Ecotopia, or about the Northwest as Ecotopia. But a lot of them don’t know where the term came from.” NY Times

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Karrie Jacobs — ... Things are so slow right now that I actually read a promotional email from The Architects Newspaper before deleting it. And I’m glad I did. The email provided a link to a blog post by Ken Saylor of the drawings done by LA-based architect Craig Hodgetts, of Hodgetts and Fung, for a never -made movie of Ernest Callenbach’s utopian fantasy novel, Ecotopia. A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times ran a story heralding the rediscovery of the novel Ecotopia. The book was originally ...