
Ecotopia
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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: 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.
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- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Weston's Next Assignment: Ecotopia
- Chapter 2 - William Weston on His Journey to Ecotopia
- Chapter 3 - Crossing the Ecotopian Border
- Chapter 4 - The Streets of Ecotopia's Capital
- Chapter 5 - Food, Sewage, and "Stable States"
- Chapter 6 - Car-Less Living in Ecotopia's New Towns
- Chapter 7 - The Unsporting Life of Ecotopia
- Chapter 8 - Ecotopian Television and its Wares
- Chapter 9 - The Ecotopian Economy: Fruit of Crisis
- Chapter 10 - In Ecotopian's Big Woods
- Chapter 11 - Decline Without Fall? The Ecotopian Population Challenge
- Chapter 12 - Savagery Restored: Ecotopia's Dark Side
- Chapter 13 - Their Plastics and Ours
- Chapter 14 - Women in Power: Politicians, Sex and Law in Ecotopia
- Chapter 15 - Workers' Control, Taxes, and Jobs in Ecotopia
- Chapter 16 - Race in Ecotopia: Apartheid or Equality?
- Chapter 17 - Energy from Sun and Sea
- Chapter 18 - Communications in Ecotopia: Press, Television and Publishing
- Chapter 19 - Ecotopian Education's Surprises
- Chapter 20 - Living in Plastic Tubing
- Chapter 21 - Separation of Functions: Research and Teaching in Ecotopia
- Chapter 22 - Ecotopian Music, Dance, Other Arts
- Chapter 23 - Hospitals and Health Care: The Ecotopian Way
- Chapter 24 - Ecotopia: Challenge or Illusion?
- Chapter 25 - Work and Play Among the Ecotopians
- Editor's Epilogue
- About the Author
- Copyright
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