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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition

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Description for Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Black and White Photos, Maps. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.

Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.

Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas.

In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines ... Read more

Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.” Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”

Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.

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Product Details

Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
422 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
White River Junction, United States
ISBN
9781603580564
SKU
V9781603580564
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About Alan Weisman
Author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller The World Without Us, Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, and Orion, among others, and on National Public Radio. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for ... Read more

Reviews for Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition
"...a book telling a tale too lovely for fiction, a lyrical, well-observed book that reports from the llanos of eastern Colombia, savannas tortured by guns and cows and cocaine, of an experiment in solar democracy in which 'appropriate technology' is anything but a sad product on the discount tables of broken, post-sixties idealism."
Tom Athanasiou, The Nation (This text refers to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition


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