“Ecotopia” in Japan?

by Ernest Callenbach My wife Christine and I visited Toyosato, an agricultural intentional community in Japan, because an ecology-minded professor friend told us it seemed to him reminiscent of the sustainable future society I had described in my novel Ecotopia. Ecotopia’s citizens conducted their agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy production, land use, transportation, and much else on principles that would ensure the long-term survival of their society.