Long before Silicon Valley billionaires purchased tracts of Solano County land to build a tech utopia, a group of Bay Area environmentalists proposed one of their own: an "ecovillage" to serve as a ...

The Nicaraguan art colony on the Solentiname Islands was founded by priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal in 1965, during a time of political unrest. He encouraged locals to start painting as a way of ...