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Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston (Ecotopia, Bk 1)
Ecotopia The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston - Ecotopia, Bk 1
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Pos...  more »reporter Will Weston.

Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.
ISBN-13: 9780553234718
ISBN-10: 0553234714
Publication Date: 6/1982
Pages: 213
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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