Product Details: Gaviotas
| Author: | Alan Weisman |
| Format: | Paperback: Anniversary: 240 pages. |
| Publisher: | Chelsea Green Pub Co (09/03/2008) |
| ISBN: | 1603580565 |
| ISBN13: | 9781603580564 |
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Publisher Notes: Gaviotas
- Los Llanosathe rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombiaaare 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 countryas growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the worldas 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 Gaviotansa 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-a MArquez has called Paolo Lugari aInventor of the World.a Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: aUtopia literally means ano place.a We call Gaviotas a topia, because itas real.aRelive 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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