![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout Weston’s articles especially, he explores these differences from the United States and, more specifically, his home in New York City, in often minute detail. Equality and sustainability are the guiding factors of Ecotopian society. Throughout these initial articles and entries, we see Weston confronted by a way of life vastly different from the one he has known: People live more communally, work and play blend into one another, and everything from the economy to family life revolves around decentralization of power and what Ecotopians call a stable state: waste products being reused and reintroduced into the ecosystem so that truly unusable waste is practically unheard of. ![]() We begin with Weston’s apprehensive first journal entry and column composed on his way to the country, unsure of what he will find when he gets there, since the only information Americans have about Ecotopia comes from rumor and speculation, most of which has been negative. The novel itself consists solely of Weston’s writings, both the twenty-four articles he writes and files for the Times-Post during his visit to Ecotopia, interspersed with his personal journal entries from the duration of his trip. ![]()
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