GAVIOTAS by Weisman, Alan : Eco-building, Energy, Design

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A Village to Reinvent the World

More than twenty five years ago an intrepid visionary named Paolo Lugari set out to create a village in the eastern savannas of war ravaged Colombia (known as the llanos),which are among the most brutal environments on earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. His aim was to create a village that could sustain itself agriculturally, economically, and artistically: if a community could survive in the Colombian llanos, it would be possible to live anywhere. The new village was named after the graceful river terns common to the area, los gaviotas.

Paolo Lugari and the Gaviotans, in their quest to create a model human habitat, serendipitously renewed an entire ecosystem. Perhaps this is why Colombian author Gabriel García Marquez has referred to Lugari as The Inventor of the World.

The miracle of Gaviotas shows how the inhabitants have:

• created a new rainforest by planting two million pine trees
• invented wind turbines that convert mild breezes into energy
• developed super efficient pumps that tap previously inaccessible sources of water
• made solar kettles that sterilize drinking water using the fierce heat of the tropical sun

The story of Gaviotas is told by Alan Weisman, a veteran correspondent who was part of a team of journalists who in 1994 were funded by the Ford Foundation to document solutions to the world s greatest environmental crises. His search led him to war torn, drug ravaged Colombia, and the miracle of Gaviotas.

Gaviotas is a book about people who have dared to change their world in the process changing the world we all live in.

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