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Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Ecotopia The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Author:Ernest Callenbach Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon & Washington seceded from the Union to create a stable-state ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its 1st officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post... more »reporter Will Weston.
Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, mini-cities that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's conflict of values intensifies and leads to a startling climax.« less
A riveting look at a women controlled future utopia built in the Pacific northwest on an egalitarian model of from each according to his/her abilities to each according to his/her needs. Very enjoyable read from a very visionary writer.