[All] "Gaviotas: a village to reinvent the world, 10th Anniversary Edition" (check out amazon -- ca & com)

[Robert Milligan]

All,

"The point of Gaviotas is not that you should come to it,  but that  
you should adopt its spirit wherever you are."


Many of the utra-sustainable technologies created in Gaviotos could  
help enhance social  innovation projects in the more "advanced" World  
at very low cost -- creating new jobs and their attendant skills --  
especially in low-income communities within our large cities, on many  
First Nations reserves, .. .

Here are some related references that I hope all of you (at least)  
social innovators will find useful (combined with complementary  
healthy-food-producing Solar Greenhouses such as with http://books.google.ca/books/about/Solar_greenhouses_underground.html?id=QWolAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y 
  &  http://geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/ ):


"If you drive east out of Bogatá, Colombia into the easternllanos of  
the Vichada province -- and you manage to avoid the paramilitary  
government troops and the guerillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces  
of Colombia (FARC) who regularly battle in this empty place -- you  
will come across a small village of roughly 200 people. They'll give  
you a free meal, and if you ask they might show you their  
revolutionary designs for power-collecting windmills, solar heating  
systems," Worldchanging: Bright Green: Gaviotas
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004910.html


Book ("Gaviotas: a village to reinvent the world") reference within  
web-site
http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html

Gaviotas -- Social Design Notes
http://backspace.com/notes/2003/08/gaviotas.php

Colombia's Model City
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Colombia.htm

Gaviotas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviotas

Gaviotas by Alan Weisman : Associated Articles - Chelsea Green
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaviotas:paperback -  
revised edition/associated_articles

Gaviotas Rising: An NPR documentary narrated by Alan Weisman
http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/weisman.htm

Gaviotas, An Update on a Sustainable Village in Columbia
  http://www.moonshineink.com/articles.php/98/1124


Related note: This village is also very much in the spirit of the work  
of British economist EF Schumacher as represented in his book "Small  
Is Beautiful" and in his mid-century Intermediate Technology Movement  
(Appropriate Technology in US).


Cheers,
Robert


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