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...self-sufficient city for 5,000 people spread over 15 acres and housed under one enormous glass roof. There will be a 25-story-high complex for both apartments and light industries turning out furniture, textiles and other products, as well as shopping centers and parks. Both solar heat and the food for a heavily vegetarian diet will come from a 4½-acre complex of greenhouses attached to the city's southern flank. While Arcosanti will have only about two-thirds the area of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, it will be set in 4,000 acres...
Arcosanti, through a technology not yet developed, is to be largely solar powered. No cars, no prisons and no cemeteries will be permitted. Skeptical visitors are assured by bubbly tour escorts that the city will indeed be built, and will produce the best of all possible worlds, urban life in a rural setting. Guide Ann Whitehill, 23, earnestly tells a tour group, "In the finished city there will even be pizza parlors." "And neighbors who are friends," adds Ralph Kratz, 42, a civil engineer on the Arcosanti staff. Indisputably, the project has already become established as one of the more...
...forecasts of "major social and political disruptions in the country's urban areas" and "the most difficult times since the Civil War," Ruff recently moved his wife and eight of his twelve children to a new brick house in Mapleton, Utah, equipped with a wood-burning stove, solar water heater, storage tanks for diesel fuel and gas and two acres of corn and alfalfa...
...only one to realize the profits of bleak prophecy. An advertisement in Mother Earth News, the North Carolina-based, back-to-the-land bimonthly, pitches $64,000 building lots in Park City, Utah, geared directly to the survivalist market. The properties are touted as "excellent for passive solar home/earth shelter with food-producing greenhouse." Saxon predicts a threefold increase in sales for his survival-book business which grossed $100,000 last year, carrying such titles as Granddad's Wonder Book of Chemistry, Root Rot and The Complete Book of Midwifery. Neo-Life Co. of America, a major producer based...
Still touchingly enthusiastic and naive at 42, Rubin is a $36,000-a-year securities analyst at John Muir & Co. He says that his task is investigating "companies of the future," such as solar-power firms, and "finding the financing for the socially aware risk takers who will become tomorrow's titans." But his boss, Research Director Ray Dirks, expects Rubin to provide the company with something else. Says Dirks: "A lot of people who were around in the '60s have matured, and some of them want to invest. We can use somebody like...