Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World - Softcover

Weisman, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890132284 ISBN 13: 9781890132286

Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 1999

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Los Llanosothe rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombiaoare 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 countryis growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the worldis 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 Gaviotansi 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 GarcIa M*rquez has called Paolo Lugari iInventor of the World.i Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: iUtopia literally means eno place.i We call Gaviotas a topia, because itis real.i 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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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 Harperis, 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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• Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1890132284
• ISBN 13: 9781890132286
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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