ABANDONED. LeGuin-type book/story ecologically balanced world

[Sue]

I read this book or story in the 1980s - it was the U.S. at some point in the future where everyone has a certain number of energy/water "points" they can use, a very limited amount. Even the political leaders had to work the travel they needed to do for the job around the same number of points everyone else had, budgeting and saving up for a car trip, etc. Middle-aged woman heroine, a local politican. Sort of utopian/dystopian all at once - they had solved the world's problems, but it was hard work for just about everyone all the time to manage it.

[Ms.soule]

Sounds similar to Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston.

[Sue]

Thanks - that may be it! I'll read it and see.

[Dawn]

Nature's Endwas my thought.

[L.E.]

If the protagonist had been male, I'd have said Adiamante by L.E. Modesitt, Jr....

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Sue, are you still looking for this book? Was it Ecotopia?

[Empress]

These books description is not very clear but they are classified as ecotopias:
Nature's End
The Wild Shore

[Andy]

Rather than "The Wild Shore," how about "The Pacific Edge" Pacific Edge

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Sue, still looking?