Nowtopia : How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today

Writer and activist Carlsson takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of people and organizations he loosely dubs as the emergent "Nowtopian movement," by which he means those who are engaged in projects and activities that point the way for workers' emancipation outside of the capitalist wage system. He describes do-it-yourself bicycle repair shops, free software developers for political activists, small farmers building alternative food systems, grassroots biofuels activists, urban gardeners, the annual temporary alternative society embodied in the Burning Man festival, and others. Annotation 2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)