![]() ![]() reporter to visit Ecotopia, Weston describes the new society they have built – and falls in love with a sexy and open-minded Ecotopian beauty.Ĭorrespondent Weston finds a decentralized, eco-friendly non-up-tight culture with no cars, lots of high speed trains, local small-scale hospitals carrying out cradle-to-grave health coverage with less high-tech equipment and more preventive medical practices than in the rest of the U.S. ![]() (How they managed to break away and stay separate is explained in the book.) As the first ever regular U.S. and created an environmentally based new order. In 1979 Northern California, Oregon and Washington had seceded from the U.S. More recent editions advertise it as “The first dramatic portrait of an ecologically sustainable society!” The author, Ernest Callenbach (1929−2012) claimed he got his ideas from reading Scientific American and Science magazines.Įcotopia is organized around the fictional news dispatches and the personal diary entries of fictional correspondent William Weston who travels to the new nation of Ecotopia in 1999. This slim science fiction volume of 167 pages eventually sold over a million copies in twelve languages. Twenty-five publishers had previously rejected the manuscript. In 1975 a tiny company called Banyan Tree Books in Berkeley, California, published Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. ![]()
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