What’s your idea of utopia? A self-managed society? Not working for a boss? It’s here now. And thanks to a new social movement spurred on by ecologically driven politics, bicycles, technology and biofuel, a new culture is emerging.

Chris Carlsson, is an active observer for this movement of cultural radicals who are ditching the jobs they hate, following their passion and building a new world.

CREDENTIALS: Carlsson is an author and urban historian. He is also founder of the Critical Mass, a monthly global bike-in. His latest book is NOWTOPIA: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today.

AVAILABILITY: California, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Charles Weigl, (510) 208.1700 (CA); Charles@akpress.org