{"product_id":"ecotopia-paperback","title":"Ecotopia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnest Callenbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's \u003cb\u003eEcotopia \u003c\/b\u003eis a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e as the \"newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,\" Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEcotopia 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: \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-Post \u003c\/i\u003ereporter Will Weston. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkeptical 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcotopia 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnest Callenbach is also the author of \u003ci\u003eEcotopia Emerging, The Ecotopian Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Friendship \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHumphrey the Wayward Whale\u003c\/i\u003e (with Christine Leefeldt) and of \u003ci\u003eA Citizen Legislature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Phillips). He edits natural history books and the journal \u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e at the University of California Press, and lectures on environmental topics all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8.18 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756676841760,"sku":"9780553348477","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8fb5159a17a6fffc8a8cdcd0423e91b0.webp?v=1780083801","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ecotopia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}