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Gaviotas:
A Village to Reinvent the World

by Alan Weisman

www.friendsofgaviotas.org/

This very readable journalistic account documents the creation of the environmentally sustainable Colombian village of Gaviotas. Weisman describes how this community adapts to its harsh savanna environment by using appropriate and inventive technologies. A remarkable part of this story is the unintentional revival of the rainforest in the area through tree farming. The Gaviotas story provides an inspirational model of how sustainable human communities function.

Reviewed in Environmental Building News July/August 1998

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Publisher Chelsea Green Publishing Company PO Box 428, 85 N. Main Street, Suite 120 White River Junction, VT 05001 Phone: 802-295-6300 Toll-free: 800-639-4099 Fax: 802-295-6444 www.chelseagreen.com Full list of 21 items from this publisher

Available as: book (paperback) Length: 240 pages Published: 1999 ISBN: 1890132284 LOC: GE160.C7 W45 1998

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