Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through

Environmental writer Reece (Lost Mountain) takes a road trip to explore the idea of utopia within the United States, past and present. In Reece's opinion, the country is facing unprecedented economic, environmental, political, and social crises. Change is the only option going forward, and it needs to be revolutionary, transforming how we view our environment, food, natural resource use, time, work, and more. For the author, these changes are modeled on the concepts and efforts of the varied utopian experiments in American history. This novel approach leads Reece to travel to a number of communities expressing different economic, family, political, religious, sexual, and social examples; some he finds necessary and adaptable to confront the current dilemma. He claims that these societies teach us which paths to take and which to avoid. Intriguingly, despite the dismal results of these utopian efforts, Reece remains hopeful that such endeavors should be applied to the nation at large.