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Author: Alan Weisman
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0930031954

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World

Los 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. Download Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Here, 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. In 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 Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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