Casavaria

Casavaria was founded by Joseph Robertson, who served as its editor-in-chief. Its publishing activities focused on:

• New authors in Spanish and Portuguese, with an emphasis on poetry, fiction, and travel writing;
• Spanish-language classics, in partnership with Linkgua Ediciones—a project that brought 250 Spanish-language classics back into print;
• Online news magazines focused on sustainability and innovation, including Cafe Sentido (which reported extensively on politics, democracy, economics, and climate), The HotSpring Network (which focused on sustainability, innovation, technology, and climate-related economics), and an ecology and sustainability section, with content collaboration from Albaeco.com, based in Sweden;
• Initial exploration of design strategies for an interactive economic analysis platform called Quipu.

Casavaria also published select classic authors, including an edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and a 400th anniversary edition of the first part of Don Quijote de La Mancha.

After creation of the first edition of the ‘user-made economic atlas’ that would become the Quipu Catalytic Commons, Casavaria closed its book publishing efforts and migrated sustainability and innovation reporting to other partners’ sites. Online news magazines that were dependent on Casavaria for their digital distribution ceased updating and operations along with the book publishing division.

The HotSpring Network innovation platform—which housed the Quipu project and related sustainability and innovation efforts—spun off, and would eventually merge with Geoversiv.net.