<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>"The point of Gaviotas is not that you should come to it, but that you should adopt its spirit wherever you are."</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>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, .. .</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/Solar_greenhouses_underground.html?id=QWolAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y">http://books.google.ca/books/about/Solar_greenhouses_underground.html?id=QWolAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y</a> & <a href="http://geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/">http://geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/</a> ):</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">If you drive east out of Bogatá, Colombia into the eastern</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><i>llanos</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "> 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,</span>" Worldchanging: Bright Green: Gaviotas</div><div><a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004910.html">http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004910.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Book ("Gaviotas: a village to reinvent the world") reference within web-site</div><a href="http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html">http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/Friends_of_Gaviotas/Home.html</a><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Gaviotas -- Social Design Notes</div><a href="http://backspace.com/notes/2003/08/gaviotas.php">http://backspace.com/notes/2003/08/gaviotas.php</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Colombia's Model City</div><a href="http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Colombia.htm">http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Colombia.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Gaviotas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviotas">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviotas</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Gaviotas by Alan Weisman : Associated Articles - Chelsea Green</div><a href="http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaviotas:paperback%20-%20revised%20edition/associated_articles">http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaviotas:paperback - revised edition/associated_articles</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Gaviotas Rising: An NPR documentary narrated by Alan Weisman</div><a href="http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/weisman.htm">http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/weisman.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Gaviotas, An Update on a Sustainable Village in Columbia <div> <a href="http://www.moonshineink.com/articles.php/98/1124">http://www.moonshineink.com/articles.php/98/1124</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Related note: This village is also very much in the spirit of the work of British economist EF Schumacher as represented in his book <b>"Small Is Beautiful"</b> and in his mid-century Intermediate Technology Movement (Appropriate Technology in US).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Robert</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></body></html>