(May 3) Here we go again, dear diary. A fresh notebook with all those blank pages waiting to be filled. Good to be on the way at last. Alleghenies already receding behind us like pale green ripples on ...

North Portland's Albina District was a hub for factories that emitted pollution into one of the few Portland neighborhoods where African Americans were allowed to live early in the 20th century. The ...

Los Angeles and New York - In an effort to demonstrate how online games can effect positive change in the real world, independent games studio Talkie leveraged its presence at the annual Games for ...

This story is part of Fix’s Climate Fiction Issue, which explores how fiction can create a better reality. Check out the full issue here, including the short stories in Fix’s first-ever ...

In the afterword to the 30th-anniversary edition of his 1975 novel, Ernest Callenbach writes, “Looking back, it seems clear that Ecotopia was the first attempt to portray a sustainable society, and ...

Ernest Callenbach is the kind of guy -- kindly, wise and playfully dedicated -- who seems to spring from the land itself in Berkeley. "The whole street was American elm," he told me as we walked ...

Today, Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's Ecotopia is an established part of publishing's lore of rejected best-sellers. As the Washington Post's wrote in its obituary for Callenbach who passed away earlier ...

In 1981, I discovered Ecotopia. Newly arrived in Seattle from Reno, Nev.—drawn by a childhood attraction to the setting for Here Come the Brides—I moved into a house full of Whitman College grads who ...

EcoTopia proudly introduces its new tear-free home compostable dog poop bags —an eco-friendly and frustration-free solution for pet waste management that helps reduce the harmful environmental impact ...

Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's 1977 novel reminds us how the medium of print shaped the publications and culture of an era. Mr. Callenbach was the first to admit that literary style was not the chief ...