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* [http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1302554 Sense & Sustainability: A utopia made real in Colombia] | * [http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1302554 Sense & Sustainability: A utopia made real in Colombia] | ||
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/world/americas/16gaviotas.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 An Isolated Village Finds the Energy to Keep Going] | * [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/world/americas/16gaviotas.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 An Isolated Village Finds the Energy to Keep Going] | ||
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Las Gaviotas (The River Gulls) is a village of about 200 people in Colombia, South America.
For three decades, gavioteros (gaviotans) - peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia, an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted millions of trees, thus regenerating an indigenous rainforest. They farm organically and use wind and solar power. Every family enjoys free housing, community meals, and schooling. There are no weapons, no police, no jail. There is no mayor. The United Nations named the village a model of sustainable development. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called founder Paolo Lugari the "inventor of the world." [1]
References
- ↑ Description at http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html