A nice tribute to the recently deceased Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia. If you haven’t read his book, check it out. Though it’s definitely a product of its time and place—the counterculture 1970s in the Bay Area—Callenbach spins an alternate universe in Ecotopia where Northern California, Washington, and Oregon have split from the Union over various environmental grievances.
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