{"product_id":"gaviotas-a-village-to-reinvent-the-world-2nd-edition-9781603580564","title":"Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLos 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari \"Inventor of the World.\" Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: \"\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e literally means 'no place.' We call Gaviotas a \u003cem\u003etopia\u003c\/em\u003e, because it's real.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of \u003cem\u003eGaviotas\u003c\/em\u003e, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeisman, Alan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAuthor of the critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best seller \u003cem\u003eThe World Without Us\u003c\/em\u003e, Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiscover\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOrion\u003c\/em\u003e, among others, and on National Public Radio. A former contributing editor to the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He lives in western Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662532514066,"sku":"9781603580564","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_92e12329-da44-4f10-88bd-31a751b2e97c.jpg?v=1733527398","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gaviotas-a-village-to-reinvent-the-world-2nd-edition-9781603580564","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}