A movement for sustainability in Spain has sparked some independently minded people to inhabit once-abandoned villages, turning them into eco-villages, where community members live a self-sufficient life in harmony with nature. Matavenero is a village in the mountainous El Bierzo region of Spain where inhabitants strive to live sustainably far from the comforts of modern amenities and densely populated cities. Matavenero became abandoned in the late 1960s. In 1989, an international mix of people who wanted to live simply off...