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In the late 1960s, a young Colombian named Paolo Lugari developed what would become one of the world's most celebrated examples of sustainable living. Featuring a new Afterword by the author, this anniversary edition describes how Gaviotas has progressed over the past decade.

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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 to convert mild breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies. Over time, the Gaviotans' experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself.

Colombian author Gabriel Garca Mrquez 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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  • Title Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition
  • Author Alan Weisman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 10th anniversary
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT
  • Publication date 2008-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781603580564 / 1603580565
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.08 x 0.63 in (22.81 x 15.44 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Colombia - Environmental conditions, Human ecology - Colombia
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010-292567
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.986

About the author

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 Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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