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, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.

Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's conflict of values intensifies — and leads to a startling climax.

"Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive, positive vision of an ecologically sustainable world. Essential reading for all who care about the Earth's future." Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao Of Physics and The Turning Point

"A classic of Earth consciousness." Denis Hayes

"None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society." Ralph Nader

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.

" 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,     the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first    officially sanctioned American visitor: New York    Times-Post reporter Will Weston.

Like a modern    Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed,     horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange    practices: employee ownership of farms and    businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical    elimination of pollution, " mini-cities" that    defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering    on worship, a woman-dominated government, and    bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative,     unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a    sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's    conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling    climax.

Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive,  positive vision of an ecologically sustainable  world. essential reading for all who care about the  earth's future."--Fritjof Capra, author of the  Tao Of Physics and the  Tuming Point.

"A  classic of earth consciousness."--Denis Hayes,  Earth Day.

"None of the happy  conditions in Ecotopisa are beyond the technical or  resource reach of our society."--Ralph Nader