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050 00 $aGE160.C7$bW45 2008
082 04 $a338.9861
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aWeisman, Alan.
245 10 $aGaviotas :$ba village to reinvent the world /$cAlan Weisman.
250 $a10th anniversary ed.
260 $aWhite River Junction, VT :$bChelsea Green Pub. Co.,$c2008.
300 $a240 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published 1998 by Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aOverture -- The Savanna -- The Tools -- The Trees.
520 $aLos 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 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 atopia, 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. -- Provided by publisher.
520 $aTells the story of Gaviotas, an experimental village established in the barren eastern savanna of Colombia by a group of visionaries and technicians in an attempt to prove that it is possible for people to exist, and even thrive, in one of the world's harshest environments.
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651 0 $aColombia$xEnvironmental conditions.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zColombia.
651 0 $aColombia$xDescription and travel.
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856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2010292567-d.html
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