In 1999, investigative reporter Will Weston is sent on a six-week assignment for the Times-Post to Ecotopia, a "stable-state" ecosystem founded in 1980 when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union.
Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston
β Scribed by Ernest Callenbach
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Bantam Books
- Year
- 2009;1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307574563
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β¦ Synopsis
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell," Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future.**
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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-Post 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:...
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