{"product_id":"9781597142939","title":"Ecotopia: 40th Anniversary Edition","description":"\"Ecotopia was founded  when northern California, Oregon, and Washington  seceded from the Union to create a \"stable-state\"  ecosystem: the perfect balance between human  beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later,  the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first  officially sanctioned American visitor: \u003ci\u003eNew York  Times-Post\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Will Weston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like a modern  Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed,  horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange  practices: employee ownership of farms and  businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical  elimination of pollution, \"mini-cities\" that  defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering  on worship, a woman-dominated government, and  bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative,  unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a  sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's  conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling  climax.","brand":"Heyday Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041205469424,"sku":"9781597142939","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597142939_p0.jpg?v=1763813739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597142939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}