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. 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: 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.
