![]() ![]() ![]() He finds irresistible the balance of life there, the manner in which the new state has tamed – while continuing to take judicious advantage of – the juggernaut of Technology, and the refusal of its citizens to cost the world more than they give the world and he, too, becomes an Ecotopian. The reporter William Weston is allowed within the borders to make contact with (and if possible to subvert) the Ecotopians. As of 1999, Washington, Oregon and Northern California have been in secession from the rest of the USA for almost two decades. ![]() (1929-2012) US environmentalist, film critic and author whose own Banyan Tree Books published his first novel, Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston (1974 American Review #19 as "First Days in Ecotopia" exp 1975), after it had been refused by several professional houses it was reported in the mid-1980s to have sold more than 300,000 copies, which should come as no surprise given the reasoned seductiveness of the Utopia premised in its pages. ![]()
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