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Gaviotas:
A Village to Reinvent the World
Veteran journalist Alan Weisman was part of
a team assigned by National Public Radio to document
possible solutions to the world's greatest environmental
crises. His search led to war-torn, drug-ravaged
Colombia, where he'd heard about the miracle of
Gaviotas. He found a symbol of hope and triumph
amidst a perilous world, and kept returning to
chronicle its story.
A 10th anniversary edition of Gaviotas was published in September 2008, with a new afterword by Alan Weisman.
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Praise for Gaviotas
"Alan Weisman's Gaviotas is the ongoing
saga of what real, hands-on sustainability means,
calluses and all, practiced in the most demanding
social and environmental circumstances conceivable.
This inspiring story demonstrates that the best
design comes from the severest limits."
— Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce
and Natural Capitalism
"Gaviotas is not merely a book of hope,
but a story of twists and turns that remind us
just how rich the human spirit and a human community
can be. Alan Weisman proves again that he is among
the best journalist-essayists North America has
offered the world, toward the end of this millenium
and the end of the Decade of Endless Hand-Wringing."
— Gary Paul Nabhan, author of The Desert Smells
Like Rain and Cultures of Habitat
"Alan Weisman has captured what
we always knew but seem to constantly forget in
our drugged industrial lives—that all the solutions
are within us. It has taken a small town in Colombia
to show us the way to go home. We need Gaviotas
more than it needs us. May this book have a million
readers."
— Charles Bowden, author of Blood
Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
"After the fall of so much idealism in Latin
America, it is wonderful to discover this luminous
book about a luminous place in Colombia. Alan
Weisman takes us to Gaviotas via many stories.
The path is completely engrossing."
— Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of
the Butterflies and ˇYo!
"Elsewhere they're tearing down the rain forest.
Here, we're putting it back. If we can do this
in Colombia, there's hope that people can do it
anywhere."
— Paolo Lugari, founder of Gaviotas
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Selected Works
Books
The World Without Us
An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico
Articles
University of Arizona Spring Commencement Speech
May 15, 2009
Three Planetary Futures Vanity Fair, April 2008
Earth Without People
Cartoon Op-ed
Mining the Imagination for New Energy
The
Cocaine Connection
Diamonds in the Wild
Power Trip
The Sacred and Profane
Vanishing Forests, Endangered People
Radio
 Chiloé: A Bridge Too Far?
Resurrecting the Zápara
Laguna
Madre
Straw
Bale Homes in Mexico
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