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ecotopia, n. U.S.|iːkəʊˈtəʊpɪə|
Also Ecotopia.
[f. eco- + Utopia n.]
The name of an ecological utopia in Ecotopia (1975), a novel by Ernest Callenbach, esp. used transf. to denote the Pacific coast of the United States (the site of Ecotopia in the novel) or any ecologically idealized place, society, condition, etc.
1975E. Callenbach (title) Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston. 1979Washington Post 4 Mar. c4/1 No where—not even in the Empty Quarter—will you find rugged individualism worshipped the way it is in Ecotopia. Ibid. 30 Oct. a1/2 New skyscrapers, new industries and new residents attracted to the life in ‘ecotopia’. 1985Christian Science Monitor 8 Mar. b2/2 As for litter, we didn't observe so much as a scrap of paper in our five days in Rainier's back country. This is in the heart of ‘Ecotopia’, after all. 1991Seattle Times 12 Mar. b3/3 ‘I do not have any answers on how to get from here to ecotopia,’ Foreman said.
Hence ecoˈtopian a., of, characteristic of, or tending towards such a utopia; also as n., an inhabitant of a supposed ecotopia, or one who aspires to ecotopia.
1975E. Callenbach Ecotopia 3 No phone service, wire service indirect: uncanny isolation the Ecotopians have insisted on for 20 years! Ibid., In a jam the Ecotopian police might be no help at all—in fact they apparently aren't even armed. 1981Graduate Woman July/Aug. 30/3 Whether we call them dropouts or ecotopians, it is clear that they are already trying to live in the future, like a new generation of pioneers creating their own environment beyond the physical frontier. 1986B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking p. xxxvii, In the Pacific Northwest Indians, Chinese, and Japanese confronted Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians, and Estonians to produce the fresh-market cooking of the ecotopian Northwest. |
