Ernest Callenbach dies at 83; wrote environmental novel 'Ecotopia'
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 01:02
in Physics & Chemistry
Callenbach in 1975 wrote the cult favorite about a utopian world in which food is locally grown and energy comes from the sun.Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar and environmentalist who created a cult favorite in "Ecotopia," a 1975 novel that predicted with uncanny accuracy a world where recycling is commonplace, food is locally grown and energy comes from the sun, died April 16 in Berkeley. He was 83.