Last original Utopias
22 videos • 10,791 views • by Kirsten Dirksen Half a century ago (in the midst of the Cold War, societal changes that encountered a backlash, and the Vietnam war), a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land. They tried to create a patchwork of utopian communes across the United States, especially in California and the Pacific Northwest. There, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a grand social experiment. Some of these places have become the inspiration for a new environmentalism that taps into resilience and a connection with Nature's rhythms.