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"Power is beauty descending into the realm of the visible" ~ Nietzsche

If the first step on the journey towards collective sustainability is to sustain oneself, then the second one is surely to find ones personal path of beauty - that which feeds your soul, inspires you to live your dreams, and fills your heart in challenging times.

Welcome to the Path of Beauty, where you will find the music, video, and literature that has kept our fires burning and inspired us to new heights.

Below you will find the Path of Beauty Theatre (with our weekly features), the Song of the Week player, the Poem/Sonnet of the Month, and a recommended reading Literary Masterpiece of the Month.

Articles related to the Arts will soon be archived in the sidebar to the left. Enjoy!

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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: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. 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.

"Callenbach gives us a vivid, comprehensive,  positive vision of an ecologically sustainable  world. essential reading for all who care about the  earth's future."--Fritjof Capra, author of the  Tao Of Physics and the  Tuming Point.