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 fortiethanniversary edition includes Ernest Callenbachs final essay ampldquoAn Epistle to the Ecotopiansamprdquo and a new foreword by Callenbachs close friend and publisher Malcolm Margolin.