Gordon is an environmentalist, but he doesn’t get out of the city very much. He’s plugged into politics, but removed from nature. So he boarded a ferry and went to a farming co-op on an island off the coast of BC. He found people that say civilization is doomed, so they decided to escape. But what did they escape to? 

Note: This is an edited version of a program we initially aired December 2014, on an earlier iteration of our podcast.

Plus, check out our bonus blogs posts with a detailed bibliography, including the one that defines ecovillages, and looks at past utopian experiments.