Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and
Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation,
Ecotopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship,
revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now, this mysterious
country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will
Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But
Ecotopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be true about
government and human nature itself, forcing him to choose between two
competing views of civilization.
Since it was first published in 1975, Ecotopia has inspired readers
throughout the world with its vision of an ecologically and socially
sustainable future. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes Ernest
Callenbach's final essay, "An Epistle to the Ecotopians," and a new
foreword by Callenbach's close friend and publisher, Malcolm Margolin.