Futurist Social, Environmental, and Technical Utopias, 1627‐2026

* Article / Appendix: Everyone Yearns for the Same Better Image of the Future: Common Goals Across 400 Years of 79 Futurist Social, Environmental, and Technical Utopias, 1627‐2026. By Mark D. Whitaker. Draft appendix in book draft, The Glomos: Nested Global Ecoregions for Representative and Sustainable Living.

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Kojin Karatani's "Mode D" in the modern period:

"This list of 79 books spans various ecotopias: classic eco‐utopias/eco‐dystopias, eco‐urban infrastructural changes, rural eco‐agricultural changes, ecofeminist visions, Indigenous futurisms, socialist/anarchist ecologies, climate fiction utopias, solarpunk, degrowth theory, rewilding visions, pastoral utopias, novel ethics/ritualism of localism, greater regional deliberations, green outer space colonization and terraforming, the durable power of the commons, technological optimism and critique, and practical ecological blueprints for ecological design. Bold‐ face below in the chart indicates common themes desired by people across 400 years. If you read only the bold‐ face, it shows an uncanny commonality over centuries for what comprises the major pieces of an ideal more ecological and sustainable future. The boldface issues are all integrated into the Glomos as well. For this to literally span over centuries is argued to show a transcendent desire for these forms, forms rarely achieved in the past yet durably desired by societies for centuries beyond individual authors or times."

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Ecological Utopias & Eco-Literary Works: A Historical Overview

Year	Title	Author	Genre	Historical Context	Detailed Summary
1627	New Atlantis	Francis Bacon	Early Scientific Utopia	A precursor to modern technocratic and scientific utopianism.	An early modern text envisioning society organized around inquiry, experimentation and managed resource stewardship.
1872	Erewhon	Samuel Butler	Satire on Victorian society and industrialization / Eco-Utopia	Concern of the eventual advance toward artificial intelligence in thinking machines that would take over humanity and devalue it, and how to avoid it.	An isolated society with pastoral farming, unusual ecological ethics, and suspicion of machines.
1883	The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000	Upton Sinclair	Socialist Utopia / Reform Fiction	Early radical critique of industrial capitalism.	Sinclair's satirical vision anticipates cooperative settlements and municipal reforms that reduce industrial harm.
1888/1897	Looking Backward / Equality	Edward Bellamy	Proto-Socialist Utopia / Eco-Urbanism	Response to Gilded Age inequality and urban squalor. Motivation: Industrial reform, social justice.	Bellamy's work imagines nationalized utilities, planned urban design, and socialized infrastructure that prefigure eco-urban planning. Planned economy and green infrastructure; Equality introduces eco-urbanism.
1890	News from Nowhere	William Morris	Pastoral Socialist Utopia / Social Critique	Written as a response to late-19th-century industrial capitalism and the social disruptions of the Industrial Revolution; influenced by Morris's socialism and Arts & Crafts aesthetics.	Narrated as a dream-vision, the protagonist wakes in a future England transformed by nonviolent revolution into a decentralized, pastoral society. Money and wage labor have been abolished; craft, cooperative workshops, and smallholdings replace factories. The novel emphasizes the restoration of landscapes, celebration of artisanal labor, and rhythms of voluntary work integrated with creative life. Technology is not wholly rejected—useful machinery exists—but large-scale industrial production and alienating factory labor are dismantled in favor of human-scale design and ecological stewardship.
1905	A Modern Utopia	H. G. Wells	Global Eco-Socialist Technocratic Utopia	Destructive economic and ecological development paths; Motivation for more rational planning plus an early environmental vision.	Global order emphasizing resource conservation and rational land use.
1915	Herland	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Feminist Utopia / Social Reform Fiction	Late Progressive-era social reform and early feminist social theory.	Gilman imagines an all-female society that organizes cooperative agriculture, education and social care to produce a stable, low-impact social order.
1915	Pilgrim’s Farm	Nellie M. Smith	Agrarian Utopia	Motivation: Agrarian reform and Social Gospel influences.	Idealized rural cooperative community using ecological agriculture.
1920	The People of the Ruins	Edward Shanks	Post-Collapse Agrarian Utopia	Post-WWI disillusionment with industrial modernity.	A speculative novel where survivors organize land-based communities prioritizing local knowledge and subsistence.
1923	Men Like Gods	H. G. Wells	Global Eco-Socialist Technocratic Utopia	Motivation: Progressive optimism, scientific social reform.	Parallel-world utopia with advanced ecology, sanitation, and environmental control.
1935	The Green Child	Herbert Read	Allegorical Pastoral Utopia	Interwar period reflections on civilization's spiritual crises; aesthetics as remedy for modern alienation.	A poetic allegory about discovering a subterranean, pastoral people whose life is woven with ritual, craft, and reverence for landscape. The book offers symbolic prescriptions—art, ritual, and ecological integration—as a cure for modern industrial malaise, blending mythic tone with social imagination.
1942	Islandia	Austin Tappan Wright	Agrarian Utopia	Motivation: Academic critique of industrial modernity.	A remote nation practicing simple living, land stewardship, organic agriculture.
1948	Walden Two	B. F. Skinner	Behaviorist Utopia / Social Engineering Fiction	Post-WWII interest in social engineering, alternative communal living, and psychological reform. Motivation: Behaviorist utopia as alternative to industrial chaos.	Engineered cooperative society with sustainable routines. Describes a planned community that uses behaviorist principles to structure education, work, and social reward systems, aiming to reduce conflict and create sustainable, cooperative living. While methodologically controversial, the book influenced intentional communities and debates about planned versus organic social design.
1955	The Chrysalids	John Wyndham	Post-Apocalyptic Resilience Fiction	Post-war anxieties channelled into pastoral resilience narratives. Motivation: fear of genetic mutations by radiation (previous nuclear war) plus social collapse.	Focuses on small communities preserving knowledge and practicing low-impact life after societal rupture, highlighting adaptive social structures. More dystopian, but features sustainable, egalitarian enclaves.
1962	Island	Aldous Huxley	Spiritual-Ecological Utopia / Philosophical Fiction	Written in the 1950s/60s cultural moment when Eastern philosophies and critiques of Western materialism were gaining traction. Motivation: Eastern philosophy, ecology, holistic health.	Presents Pala, an island society integrating modern health care and planned agriculture with contemplative practices, education reforms, and ecological land use. Pala cultivates soil conservation, mixed cropping, community control of resources, and psychological training designed to produce balanced citizens. The novel foregrounds the interdependence of ecological health and spiritual well-being, advocating small-scale, humane institutions rather than technological gigantism. In short, Pala integrates ecology, mindfulness, and cooperative agriculture.
1972	The Word for World Is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	Ecological Novella / Anti-colonial Allegory	Responds to wars and extractive colonial practices in the mid-20th century, with ecological and anti-imperial themes.	On a forested planet, indigenous peoples live sustainably until colonists arrive to harvest resources. The novel juxtaposes indigenous ecological wisdom and rites with destructive extractive logics, culminating in violent confrontation. It is a moral parable advocating respect for forested cultures and warning of environmental and cultural costs of colonization.
1972	The Sunlight Dialogues	John Gardner	Philosophical Environmental Fiction	Reflects early 1970s philosophical environmentalism.	Explores civic responsibility and moral obligations of communities toward the land and each other.
1972	The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner	Environmental Dystopia with Ecological Activism	Classic of 1970s environmental fiction prompting policy discourse. Motivation: pollution anxiety.	A noisy portrait of pollution and corporate power that simultaneously showcases activist and local ecological movements seeking repair; eco-resistance and green enclaves.
1972	The Earthkeepers	N. Scott Momaday	Spiritual-Ecological Utopia; Indigenous Land Management	Written in the early 1970s in a cultural moment when indigenous beliefs and philosophies began being used to critique Western materialism.	Indigenous land ethics; essays/myths imagining the restoration of ecological sacredness.
1973	Small Is Beautiful	E. F. Schumacher	Ecological Economics / Policy Nonfiction	Post-war industrial expansion and growing critiques of development economics; influenced early appropriate-technology movements.	A collection of essays arguing the moral and practical necessity of 'economics as if people mattered.' Schumacher criticizes blind growth and instead advocates appropriate technology—small-scale, labor-augmenting tools—and decentralized economic units that respect ecological limits. The book has inspired community-scale experiments and remains foundational to degrowth and appropriate-technology movements.
1974	The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	Anarchist-Utopia / Political-Ecological Fiction	Written during the 1970s, when political radicalism, communal experiments, and ecological critiques of industrial society were prominent.	Anarres, the 'dispossessed' moon, is an anarchist, cooperative society practicing low-consumption living, mutual aid, and communal labor shared among citizens. Contrasted with Urras, a capitalist planet, the novel interrogates both the strengths and limitations of an anarchic ecology—how scarcity, social norms, and bureaucracy shape ecological behavior. Le Guin's treatment is complex: Anarres demonstrates ecological restraint but also social constraints, making the book an 'ambiguous utopia' that probes institutional design, freedom, and ecological health.
1975	Ecotopia	Ernest Callenbach	Eco-Political Fiction / Green Separatist Utopia	Published amid 1970s environmentalism (first Earth Day 1970), energy crises, and growing interest in regionalism and alternative technologies.	Green separatist republic with renewable energy, recycling, forest restoration. Presented as the travel journal of an outside reporter, Ecotopia details a secessionist nation formed from northern California, Oregon, and Washington. Ecotopia reorganizes transport (prioritizing transit and bicycles), localizes industry with closed-loop systems, restores forests and wetlands, and embeds sustainability in policy and everyday life. The culture emphasizes reduced consumption, community governance, and ecological education; the novel balances technical description with cultural analysis to show how policy, technology, and social norms combine to produce an enduring ecological society.
1976	Woman on the Edge of Time	Marge Piercy	Feminist Eco-Utopia / Speculative Fiction	Published into second-wave feminism and back-to-the-land movements; reflects debates over gender, family, and ecological living. Motivation: Ecofeminism plus social justice.	Future agrarian eco-commune with gender equality and bioregional living. A protagonist communicates with two possible futures—one dystopian, one utopian. The utopian strand depicts an agrarian, egalitarian society where parenting is communal, medicine is low-tech and holistic, and gender roles are fluid. The novel explores a vision of how changed social institutions and ecological practices can foster human flourishing and gender justice.
1978	Genesis	Bernard Beckett	Philosophical Speculative Fiction	Explores bioethics and planned ecological governance.	An island society structures itself around environmental constraints, inviting reflection on limits, governance and moral choices.
1981	Ecotopia Emerging	Ernest Callenbach	Green Separatist Utopia	Explore prequel pathways to sustainability.	Social movements shift US West Coast toward ecological secession.
1982	The Ecology of Freedom	Murray Bookchin	Social Ecology / Eco-Anarchism	Foundational in ecological political theory.	Positions hierarchical social orders as root causes of ecological destruction and proposes decentralist political solutions.
1984	The Integral Trees	Larry Niven	Hard-SF Arboreal Ecology	Appreciated for rigorous ecological worldbuilding.	Imagines societies adapted to living in an entirely arboreal, freefall environment; social forms are deeply shaped by ecological constraints.
1985	Always Coming Home	Ursula K. Le Guin	Anthropological / Eco-Literary Fiction	A mid-1980s exploration of post-industrial, place-based culture influenced by ethnography and the countercultural interest in returning to the land. Motivation: Anthropology, Taoism, ecological ethics.	Future Kesh culture with ritualized ecological lifeways. A hybrid of fiction, poetry, songs, and ethnographic fragments portraying the Kesh people in a future, post-collapse California. Rather than a single plot, the book constructs cultural materials—myths, recipes, crafts, and social rules—that together show a society organized around reciprocity with land, seasonal cycles, gender-fluid roles, communal crafts, and oral tradition. It rejects blueprint thinking in favor of a living cultural mosaic that models resilience through memory, place-based knowledge, and everyday practices.
1987	The Smoke Ring	Larry Niven	Sequel / Arboreal Worldbuilding	Further exploration of ecological adaptation.	Continues building out social-ecological adaptations to an unusual arborial biosphere.
1984-1990	The Three Californias Trilogy (esp. Pacific Edge (1990))	Kim Stanley Robinson	Regional Utopian Fiction / Eco-Realism	Pacific Edge is part of Robinson's 'Three Californias' project, published as environmental debates over urban sprawl and water policy were intensifying in California. Motivation: Explore possible ecological futures.	Local democracy builds a living, realistic eco-utopia. The book proposes and imagines better resilient, sustainable regional systems. Set in a near-future Orange County transformed by grassroots activism, municipal reforms, and ecological law, Pacific Edge follows civic efforts to prevent destructive development and implement water-sensitive land use. The novel is a practical utopia: it foregrounds specific policy tools (zoning, water management, renewable energy, etc.) and civic negotiation. Robinson's approach is procedural—utopia is not perfect but is created by continual regional deliberative and democratic labor, local institutions, and policy design attentive to ecological limits.
1992	The Millennial Project	Marshall T. Savage	"Green Outer Space" Habitation / Long-Term Ecological Planning	Brings ecosystem thinking to long-term human expansion. Motivation: 'Space ecology,' technological optimism.	Large-scale space habitats designed with ecological cycles. An ambitious roadmap for multi-stage space habitation with ecological closed-loop principles.
1993	The Fifth Sacred Thing	Starhawk (Miriam Simos)	Ecofeminist / Spiritual Utopia	Published in the early 1990s as permaculture and ecofeminist praxis gained visibility; reflects post-1980s social movements linking spirituality and ecological activism. Motivation: Ecofeminist activism, permaculture.	San Francisco remade as eco-democracy resisting authoritarianism. Set in a dystopia-split California, the novel centers on a multicultural community that practices permaculture, communal decision-making, and ritual as foundations of ecological and social health. The community's nonviolent resistance to an authoritarian, extractive regime emphasizes food sovereignty, inclusive governance, and spiritual healing. Starhawk mixes practical ecology with ritual praxis, offering a vision of sustainable society rooted in mutual care and ecological spirituality.
1993	Parable of the Sower	Octavia E. Butler	Climate Dystopia / Seed-Communitarian Utopia	1990s anxieties about inequality and environmental collapse.	Founding of Earthseed models mutual aid, ecological gardening and adaptive ethics amid social collapse.
1997	Biomimicry	Janine Benyus	Design Nonfiction	Influential in engineering and design curricula.	Advocates creative design inspired by ecosystems to solve human problems sustainably.
2001	Ecological Utopia Supplement 1	Author Supplement 1	Various Eco-Utopian Genres	—	Plausible eco-utopian design and community practices.
2002	Ecological Utopia Supplement 2	Author Supplement 2	Various Eco-Utopian Genres	—	Plausible eco-utopian design and community practices.
2002	Cradle to Cradle	William McDonough & Michael Braungart	Industrial Ecological Design	Part of industrial ecology and circular economy movements.	Argues circular design and regenerative industrial systems to eliminate waste.
2005	Toward a Regenerative State: A Series of Letters About Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability	Mark D. Whitaker	Green Constitutional Design	Motivation: environmental degradation as caused by unrepresentative state constitutional design, so reorienting state institutions as a route to sustainability.	Over 60 formal additions to existing nation states to flesh out more competitive party elections, independent districting without gerrymandering, and regional ecological feedback into existing politics.
2008	The Transition Handbook	Rob Hopkins	Community Resilience / Transition Movement	Inspired the Transition Town network globally; Motivation: Ecological macroeconomics.	Rethinks prosperity within ecological limits. Guide for communities to build resilience against energy, economic and ecological shocks through local initiatives.
2008	The Millennium Tides	Various	Coastal Adaptation Fiction	Reflects practical coastal resilience strategy debates.	Blend of essays and stories about living with tides, flood-resistant design, and community-managed water systems.
2009	Prosperity Without Growth	Tim Jackson	Ecological Economics	Key text in degrowth literature.	Argues a post-growth economic framework emphasizing well-being and ecological integrity over GDP expansion.
2011	Biosphere Tales (Anthology)	Various	Eco-Short Fiction	Contemporary short fiction drawing on ecological myth.	Short stories focusing on subterranean and closed ecologies and human relationships to place.
2012	Memory of Water	Emmi Itäranta	Climate-literary Fiction	Nordic literary response to scarcity narratives; Motivation: Climate, scarcity, cultural memory.	Water-guarding society with echoes of ecological spirituality. Centers a lineage guarding water knowledge within a ritualized cultural practice as a model of resource stewardship.
2012	Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories — Anthology 2012	Various	Eco-Short Fiction	Motivation: Build positive ecological futures.	Diverse short stories imagining renewable energy, cooperative living.
2013	The Simpler Way	Ted Trainer	Degrowth / Localism	Degrowth and permaculture activism contexts. Motivation: Degrowth & community sufficiency.	Outlines post-consumerist community-scale sufficiency strategies prioritizing low-energy lifestyles and local production via local ecological design.
2014	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet	Becky Chambers	Soft SF / Multispecies Ecological Fiction	Emerging interest in pluralistic, cooperative futures; Motivation: Post-scarcity ethics plus ecological cohabitation.	A multi-species society living lightly on ecosystems. A character-driven story emphasizing interspecies cooperation and low-impact living.
2014	Dark Emu	Bruce Pascoe	Historical Nonfiction / Indigenous Land Management	A controversial but influential reappraisal of colonial narratives. Motivation: Correct colonial misconceptions of Aboriginal land use.	Shows Indigenous Australia as long-standing ecological management systems. Reframes Indigenous Australian land use as complex agriculture and water management, offering lessons for contemporary ecological policy.
2014	Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy	Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens	Digital Ecological Design / Community Resilience / Transition Movement	Motivation: rising use of peer-to-peer digital technologies foments a potentially more ecological change of economics and politics being possible toward digitally facilitated commons-based economics.	Sharing the conviction that the globalized economy is at a critical turning point with the dystopian excesses and unsustainability of current practices, the growing use of peer-to-peer technologies of collaborative economics and commons-based information sharing should be recognized and appropriate regulatory changes have to be made so that desperation and anger are turned into creation and sustainability. The authors describe four future scenarios: netarchical capitalism, distributed capitalism, resilient communities, and global Commons; transition proposals are given toward the fourth option of a Commons-based economy and society for the state, the market and the civic domain.
2015	Aurora	Kim Stanley Robinson	Space-ecology Fiction	Space colonization debates and ecological engineering; Motivation: Closed-ecology thought experiment.	Generation ship ecology imagines fragile sustainable systems. A generation ship narrative that ponders closed-system ecology and the limits of sustaining human life off Earth.
2015	Postcapitalism	Paul Mason	Political Economy / Technology & Ecology	Intersects technology change with ecological policy.	Argues that digital automation and information commons can enable post-capitalist systems with ecological benefits.
2015	The Water Knife	Paolo Bacigalupi	Climate Dystopia with Adaptive Communities	Engages U.S. water politics and climate migration concerns.	A harsh depiction of water conflict that includes pockets of innovative desert adaptation and water-conserving practices.
2016	Half-Earth	E. O. Wilson	Conservation Nonfiction	Conservation biology response to global biodiversity loss.	A proposal to reserve half the Earth's land area for biodiversity conservation to halt mass extinction.
2017	The Marrow Thieves	Cherie Dimaline	Indigenous Futurism / Climate Dystopia with Utopian Ethics	Contemporary Indigenous resilience narratives; Motivation: Indigenous futurism plus ecological healing.	Dystopia of climate-ravaged world where Indigenous communities preserve ecological ethics with social practices that sustain community survival and cultural transmission.
2017	New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	Climate Adaptation Fiction	Climate adaptation and urban resilience literature.	A partially flooded New York adapts through cooperative finance, retrofitted buildings and community governance.
2017	Walkaway	Cory Doctorow	Post-capitalist / Solarpunk fiction	21st-century maker/open-source movements and critique of corporate power.	Walkaway communities build distributed manufacturing, open-source culture, and gift economies to support low-impact living.
2017	Borne	Jeff VanderMeer	Weird Ecological Fiction	New Weird tradition and ecological mutation themes; Motivation: Weird ecology and posthuman nature.	Ecologically mutated city where bioengineered species model new interdependence. A biotech-altered city foregrounds emergent ecologies and human adaptation to novel biota.
2017	Doughnut Economics	Kate Raworth	Planetary-Boundary Economics	Influential to municipal and global sustainability planning.	Proposes a 'doughnut' model balancing social foundations with ecological ceilings as a policy framework.
2017	Solarpunk Anthology	Various	Solarpunk Fiction Collection	Part of an optimistic literary movement toward renewable futures.	Short fiction compendium imagining cooperative, solar-powered communities with strong local ecologies.
2017	Walkaway: Second Entry	Cory Doctorow	Post-Capitalist / Solarpunk Fiction	Reflects maker and commons-oriented culture; Motivation: Open-source ecology & anti-corporatism.	Gift-economy eco-communities arise outside capitalism. Reiterates themes of gift economies, distributed tech and low-impact community building to emphasize practical pathways to ecological utopia.
2017	Future Home of the Living God	Louise Erdrich	Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Fiction	Motivation: Indigenous identity plus ecological crisis.	Societal breakdown contrasted with Indigenous eco-resilience.
2018	Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers	Sarena Ulibarri (ed.)	Solarpunk Fiction Collection	Motivation: Community solar utopian storytelling.	Anthology of optimistic, ecological, cooperative futures.
2018	The Noma Guide to Fermentation	Redzepi & Zilber	Agrarian Utopia / Nonfiction	Motivation: Ecological gastronomy.	Reimagines food production as ecological culture-building.
2018	The Overstory	Richard Powers	Arboricultural Literary Fiction	Late-2010s literary environmentalism; Motivation: Deep ecology, biocentric ethics.	Interlinked narratives imagining tree-centered ecological consciousness with a deep-time forest ethics and radical conservation activism.
2018	The Moon of the Crusted Snow	Waubgeshig Rice	Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Fiction	Reflects Indigenous knowledge and resurgence.	An Anishinaabe community's social structures and food systems provide resilience in a wider collapsed world.
2019	How to Do Nothing	Jenny Odell	Attention Economy / Cultural Critique / Nonfiction	Cultural critique linking attention economy and ecological awareness.	Advocates attention to place, ecology, and community. Argues that reclaiming attention and place is an ecological practice enabling stewardship and political resistance.
2019	Sand Talk	Tyson Yunkaporta	Indigenous Epistemology Nonfiction	Contributes to Indigenous knowledge inclusion in sustainability. Motivation: Indigenous complexity theory.	Offers ecological cosmologies applicable to futuristic utopias. Presents Indigenous frameworks for relational decision-making, emphasizing cross-species responsibilities and place-based governance.
2019	Peer to peer: The commons manifesto	M Bauwens, V Kostakis, A Pazaitis	Digital Ecological Design	Merging peer-to-peer digitally collaborative architectures for the economy along bioregional development lines; 'cosmo-localism', merging global concerns and regional specific development materially.
2020	The Ministry for the Future	Kim Stanley Robinson	Climate Policy Fiction / Post-Apocalyptic Fiction / Near-Future Ecological Realism	Reflects current international climate governance debates; Motivation: Globalist technocratic climate policy hysteria plus plausible futures.	Global responses build a post-carbon semi utopia/dystopia. Follows a UN agency shaping policies to avert catastrophic warming through finance, law, and technological interventions.
2020	Love After the End	Various	Indigenous Futurism Anthology	Expands Indigenous futurism into queer and kinship themes.	Eco-futures rooted in relationality and stewardship. Stories imagining Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer futures with strong relational and land-centered ethics.
2020	The Long Winter (Anthology)	Various	Climate Short Fiction Collection	Contemporary climate fiction sampling approaches to resilience.	Assembles short stories exploring local innovations and small-scale adaptive measures for climate-stressed communities.
2015-2020	The History of Bees / Climate Quartet — 2015–2020	Maja Lunde	Nonfiction	Motivation: Species loss.	Multi-timeline reflections on ecological resilience and post-collapse renewal.
2021	Bewilderment	Richard Powers	Polyfuturist Climate Fiction	Motivation: Parenting plus environmental grief.	Envisions ethical future societies and emotional solace through ecological imagination.
2021	The Actual Star	Monica Byrne	Polyfuturist Climate Fiction	Addresses cultural continuity as ecological infrastructure.	Future society adopts planetary pilgrimage and ecological non-ownership. A novel spanning eras to show how ritual, pilgrimage, and shared cultural projects can produce ecological resilience across centuries.
2021	Light From Uncommon Stars	Ryka Aoki	Speculative Magical Realism	Intersects cultural care with urban ecological praxis.	Utopian enclaves practicing mutual care and ecological harmony. Combines music, cosmopolitan immigrant narratives and community repair; advocates mutual aid and hospitality as ecological practices.
2022	How High We Go in the Dark	Sequoia Nagamatsu	Pandemic-Ecological Fiction	'Pandemic-era' speculative response linking grief with ecological renewal.	Interlinked narratives imagine new funerary and land-care practices that regenerate ecological meaning after mass death.
2023	The Terraformers	Annalee Newitz	Planetary-Ecology SF	Terraforming ethics; Motivation: Environmental history plus multispecies ethics.	Future terraforming guilds build sustainable planetary ecologies. Follows multi-generational ecological engineering projects that regenerate planetary ecosystems with multi-species cooperation.
2026	The Glomos: Nested Global Ecoregions for Representative and Sustainable Living	Mark D. Whitaker with Michael Baumgartner	Ecological Design / Political Science	Building off a more classic social utopian plan by Hans Widmer, this is a more ecologically nested and social utopian plan of ecological design, informed by political science, ecological science, and comparative historical trend analysis—arguing for fresh ethical views, and more representative and regionally deliberated choices of materials and organizations (states, education, ethics/tradition regional religions and axial religions, consumption, and financial currencies) as all required to work together systemically for improvements to representation and sustainability merged, region by region and thus worldwide simultaneously.	The Glomos is designed to have good representative and ecological outcomes on four existential issues: (1) stop systemic mass extinction; (2) stop the 'dual transhumanism' of eugenical forced genetic therapy, genetic bioweapons and self-assembling nanotech-cyborg implants creating mass genocide, artificially shorted lives, forced sterilization, and mass mental and physical surveillance built into billions of people's minds and bodies, while letting the same technologies create a mere handful of wealthy global technocrats that live artificially extended lives and breed to their heart's content while they control by forced rewrites from birth on the human genetic codes of billions of other people below them, creating human stunted drones like in a beehive from birth; these policies of a dual transhumanism end the human species and its open genetic future and ends all bodily autonomy for a centrally controlled hive-based society; (3) stops decline of representative governance by two mechanisms of technocratic genetic tinkering on the human species toward dual transhumanism; (4) and stop the national and regional decline caused by the widespread global use of billions of decentralized smartphones in a 'triple global digital storm' now resulting in societal/national declines from a global digital economy, a global digital culture, and a global decentralized media. The political science and ecological science gets merged with institutions of nested planetary ecoregions combined with national renewal by improvement of regionalized representation, against a rising dystopia of a global technocracy, via using plans for an Ecological Reformation of all institutions involving combined regional, cross-border, and cosmopolitan community building capacities of clearly demarcated ecological regions combined with global digital networks.