Aspects of his book Ecotopia in some ways anticipated " reality TV " — which emerged into recognition, and was given a label as a genre, 20 or more 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 ) met a need and desire among citizens.

* Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston ( 1975 ) by Ernest Callenbach, ecological utopia in which the Pacific Northwest has seceded from the union to set up a new society.

Pacific Edge ( 1990 ) can be compared to Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, and also to Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.

The Northwest Territorial Imperative has several left-wing and liberal counterparts in other secessionist movements in the Northwest, such as Cascadia and Ecotopia, which are largely motivated by environmental, regional, or Green concerns.

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.

Popović additionally heads the Ecotopia fund, the non-profit organization dealing with the environmental issues, financially backed by various Serbian governmental institutions as well as the private sector.

The book is set in 1999 ( 25 years in the future, as seen from 1974 ) and consists of the diary entries and reports of William Weston, a mainstream media reporter who is the first proper American to investigate Ecotopia, a newly formed country that broke from the USA in 1980.

Also known as the ' AA Caravan ' a group of around 10 people travelled from Greece via Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Hungary to the environmental youth Ecotopia gathering in Slovakia.

EYFA has organized the annual Ecotopia gathering, which is training camp of environmental and political organizers from across Europe.

Garreau's Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Western Oregon, Western Washington, coastal British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska and is one of the nine economic-cultural nations into which Garreau believed North America should be divided to correctly reflect the true regional dynamics of the continent.

Outside of the written word, Callenbach's " Ecotopia " novels have also inspired real change through its influence on the Cascadia movement.

There is a British " ethical online supermarket for everyday products " named Ecotopia. co. uk.

The new nation of Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Oregon and Washington ; it is hinted that Southern California is a lost cause.

In his 1981 book Nine Nations of North America, Washington Post editor Joel Garreau named one of his nations Ecotopia after Callenbach's book.

In 1981, Callenbach published Ecotopia Emerging, a multi-strand " prequel " suggesting how the sustainable nation of Ecotopia could have come into existence.

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is an important 20th century example of this genre, as is the Three Californias Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Bolinas and its reclusive reputation are featured in the 1981 novel Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach.

Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the seminal utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975.

The impressive, environmentally benign energy, homebuilding, and transportation technology described by Callenbach in Ecotopia was based on research findings published in such magazines as Scientific American.

The citizens of Ecotopia shared a common aim: they were looking for a balance between themselves and nature.

Callenbach ’ s Ecotopia targets the fact that many people did not feel that the market and the government were serving them in the way they wanted them to.

The novel concludes with Weston's finding himself enchanted by Ecotopian life and deciding to stay in Ecotopia as its interpreter to the wider world.

In some ways anticipating C-SPAN, which would first be broadcast in 1979, and reality television, which would not emerge as a fact for another two decades, the story mentions that the daily life of the legislature and some of that of the judicial courts is televised in Ecotopia, and even highly technical debates addressed the needs and desires of the viewers.

In contrast to much of the Green movement in contemporary America with its preference for regulation, however, Callenbach's Ecotopia has relatively laissez-faire economic tendencies, combined with intense moral pressure toward sustainable practices, both in private life and in business.

Ralph Nader praised the book, noting that " None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society.

This Ecotopia, like Callenbach's, is characterized culturally by its environmental sensibilities and focus on ' quality of life ', and economically by its focus on resources such as hydropower and forestry.

Since 1989 in Europe an annual youth gathering has been organised under the name Ecotopia.

Video game Civilization: Call to Power has Ecotopia as one of the government types.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

The cane toad has been introduced to many regions of the world — particularly the Pacific — for the biological control of agricultural pests.

1985 — Rarotonga Treaty is opened for signing in the Cook Islands, creating a nuclear free zone in the South Pacific.

A series of Kelvin waves — relatively warm subsurface waves of water a few centimetres high and hundreds of kilometres wide — cross the Pacific along the equator and create a pool of warm water near South America, where ocean temperatures are normally cold due to upwelling.

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

* 1962 — Donald J. Russell ( President, Southern Pacific Company )

On the fourth floor, he set up an X-shaped trading desk — designed to maximize his contact with traders and salesmen — from which he worked very long hours, invariably starting his day before 5 am Pacific ( 8 am Eastern, prior to the opening of the markets in New York ).

Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

In the 20th century, the small Pacific nation generated healthy revenues from this lucrative — but finite — resource.

It took the combined effort and interest of conservationists, politicians and especially businesses — namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through Montana would greatly benefit by the creation of this new tourist attraction — to ensure the passage of that landmark enabling legislation by the United States Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

* South Pacific — # 224

The Pacific Ocean encompasses approximately one-third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 165. 2 million square kilometres ( 64. 1 million square miles ) — significantly larger than Earth's entire landmass, with room for another Africa to spare.

The largest landmass entirely within the Pacific Ocean is the island of New Guinea — the second largest island in the world.

The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period — for example, from 19: 00 to 22: 00 ( Central and Mountain Time ) or 20: 00 to 23: 00 ( Eastern and Pacific Time ) ( 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. or 8 p. m. to 11 p. m .).

With access to three of the world's oceans — the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific — Russian fishing fleets are a major contributor to the world's fish supply.

Thirteen seas and parts of three oceans — the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific — wash Russian shores.