Compatriotas: Saludos. El amigo y escritor del libro GAVIOTAS, Alan Weissman, me ha informado que va a estar en Nueva York durante el mes de noviembre y le gustaria tener una reunion con miembros de la comunidad colombiana. Su libro toca a COLOMBIA!! Sugerencias?? Ayuda con la organizacion de la reunion? Tengo un salon grande en mi oficina si les parece y tambien refrescos disponibles... Saludos, Carlos Manzano State Committeeman http://www.midtownmedia.com/manzano/Colombia.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here�s what others have said about Gaviotas: "In the wake of the fall of so much idealism in Latin America, it is wonderful to discover this luminous book about a luminous place in eastern Colombia. Alan Weisman takes us to Gaviotas via many stories � stories that make the path completely engrossing." -- Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Yo! "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 "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 "Alan Weisman�s 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. Weisman himself proves again that he is among the best journalist essayists North America has offered to the world toward the end of this millennium and at the end of the Decade of Endless Hand-Wringing." -- Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., author of The Desert Smells Like Rain and Cultures of Habitat "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
