« More First Night: Giant Eyeball | Main | 200 calories » January 4, 2007Paradise.comA couple of British guys leased the Fijian island of Vorovoro and are building its tribe over the web. How real is it? Check it out – their blog has lots of photos. [Link] Since April 2006, when recruitment started, more than 1,000 of a projected 5,000 people have joined. Last fall, the first band of 100 members – including Ben Keene and Mark James, the earnest twentysomething Brits behind the effort – arrived on Vorovoro to establish basic infrastructure, like a garden and the Great Bure (the community’s main sleeping quarters). Meanwhile, members from more than 25 countries elected their first leader and, in their first referendum, voted by a landslide to install a block of composting-style toilets. jon posted this at 3:05 AM |
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