
Ecotopia
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-- Paul Albert Lee --
Paul A. Lee
Paul Lee is an American philosopher, leader, teacher, and friend. He was a fierce academic, attending Harvard Divinity School and going on to teach at MIT and UC, Santa Cruz. With his wisdom and insight, he made countless contributions to Santa Cruz by establishing several non-profit organizations that are still around today.
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An optimist, he not only had big plans but took the necessary steps to make those plans a reality and ended up changing the world.


Ecotopia
Paul played a critical role in advancing the organic food production movements and preserving the beauty and nature of UC, Santa Cruz.
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Paul had a vision of a greener future, one in which there would be a reversion from perverse practices of industrial food production to more organic practices that would protect the integrity of nature - the essence of this he would call “Ecotopia”. The vision of Ecotopia would come to gain popularity and amass into a nationwide trend toward ecocentric systems.