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The United Nations named the village a model of sustainable development. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called founder Paolo Lugari the "''inventor of the world''." | The United Nations named the village a model of sustainable development. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called founder Paolo Lugari the "''inventor of the world''." | ||
<ref>Description at http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html</ref> | <ref>Description at http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html</ref> | ||
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Chelsea Green Publishing has released a 10th anniversary edition of Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World with an afterword by author Alan Weisman about how Gaviotas has evolved over the last decade. | |||
URL = http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaviotas | |||
=More Information= | |||
#Friends of Gaviotas was formed in 2002 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to facilitate initiatives such as: North-South research exchanges like the Gaviotas biodiesel project; Periodic get-togethers with Gaviotans. | |||
URL = http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html | |||
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* [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]
Book
Chelsea Green Publishing has released a 10th anniversary edition of Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World with an afterword by author Alan Weisman about how Gaviotas has evolved over the last decade.
URL = http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaviotas
More Information
- Friends of Gaviotas was formed in 2002 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to facilitate initiatives such as: North-South research exchanges like the Gaviotas biodiesel project; Periodic get-togethers with Gaviotans.
URL = http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html
References
- ↑ Description at http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html