I'd like to recommend a book to people.

I'd like to recommend a book to people. In part this is an ad-hoc book club suggestion (so special shout-out to Leah Bloom, Joanne McLernon, Catya Belfer, and others), but I think lots of people should check it out.

In the late 60's an intentional community was formed out in the scrubland of eastern Columbia. Over the next few decades, the community grew and transformed the area. They established a permaculture forest and used high-tech thinking to create low-tech solutions to solve real problems they and other Columbians faced -- getting water, power, heat, and food. A thriving community in the middle of a war-torn part of the country.

This book follows their progress and this 10th anniversary edition has some supplementary material discussing how they've fared into the 21st century. I recommend it because it's a story of hope and community and applied thinking and applied feeling.


https://www.amazon.com/Gaviotas-Village-Reinvent-World-2nd-ebook/dp/B005LOPNA2/