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This installment is called Utopia Part 3.

I like utopian fiction.

Filmmaker and artist Ruth DeSsoe has been reading utopian fiction since she was a child.

One of her favorite books is called Ecotopia.

It is a work of utopian fiction by Ernest Kalenbach. It was written in 1975 and in it the states of Oregon, Washington, and the District of Northern California

secede from the United States and become a separate country. The government

is mostly female. It's sort of a decentralized

social democracy. Suburbia is demolished because it's considered

environmentally destructive and so is the interstate.

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