My is always talking about how. 50 years from now, we will have used up all of the earth's resources and how, by 2050, half the icecaps will have disappeared and the global temperatures will have risen by 20C, and so on. He told me that Gaviotas was an example of how people could live without destroying the environment. This got me a little more interested, so l did some research Ifound out that Gaviotas was founded 1971 by group of scientists and artists led by man called Paolo Lugari. They had decided to build completely new town in the remote savannas of eastern Colombia. It was a difficult project, as there was nothing there. However, 40 years later, Gaviotas is still there and doing really well.