[Ccpg] PR: August 8 / Permaculture Around the World Series / Robyn Francis / Cuba

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> PRESS RELEASE
> Contact: Margie Bushman
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.
> (805) 962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
>  Permaculture Around the World Series
> with Robyn Francis from Australia speaking on
> Permaculture in CUBA
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> Saturday, August 8, 6:30 - 8:30pm 2009, Donation $5
> Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
>       Santa Barbara Permaculture Network continues its Permaculture  
> Around the World series, this time welcoming Robyn Francis from  
> Australia as she speaks about herpast and future visits to Cuba  
> where she and other Australian permaculturists have been credited  
> with helping Cuba transform the islands agriculture to a more  
> sustainable model through perrmaculture.
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>    Climate Change and Peak Oil are topics on the minds of many  
> Americans today.  There is much to learn from Cuba's response to the  
> sudden loss of cheap and abundant oil in the early 1990's with the  
> fall of the Soviet Union and the continued U.S. Embargo in place  
> since the 1960's.  Cuba's industrial model of agriculture under the  
> Soviets was highly mechanized with monoculture crops reliant on  
> petro-based pesticides and fertilizers.  The era in Cuba following  
> the Soviet collapse is known to Cubans as the "Special Period" when  
> it lost more than 50 percent of it oil imports, much of its food,  
> and 85 percent of its trade economy.  Transportation halted, people  
> went hungry, and the average Cuban lost 30 pounds.
>
>         Dictated by reality, Cubans began to bring agriculture into  
> the city with urban gardens, cultivating vegetables wherever they  
> could.  A small group of Australians assisted in this grass-roots  
> effort, coming to Cuba in 1993 to teach Permaculture, a system based  
> on sustainable agriculture that uses far less energy.  With a grant  
> from the Cuban government they set up the first Permaculture  
> demonstration site, that evolved into the Foundation for Nature and  
> Humanity's Urban Permaculture demonstration site located in Havana.   
> Today 50 percent of Havana's vegetables come from inside the city,  
> while in other Cuban towns and cities, urban gardens produce from 80  
> percent to more than 100 percent of what they need.
>         More recently Australians have come back to Cuba to assist  
> after two devastating hurricanes wrought massive destruction  
> throughout Cuba in September 2008.  The loss of crops, soil and  
> organic matter from the torrential rains and flooding, challenged  
> all the islands agriculture, including the permaculture sites.
> Robyn Francis and the Cuba-Australia Permaculture Exchange (CAPE)  
> toured the island to assess the damage, offer help, and take the  
> opportunity to learn from the disaster to design more resilient  
> systems for the future.
>
>         Robyn Francis has just returned from a visit  to Cuba in  
> June 2009 as part of Cuban-Australia Permaculture Exchange (CAPE)  
> and will be reporting on her observation in her talk on One-Earth  
> Footprint - Learning from Cuba's Experience.  Discover the key  
> factors enabling Cuba to survive collapse, live within its  
> ecological footprint, and how this relates to Permaculture and  
> Transition design. Don't miss the chance to learn from one of  
> permaculture's earliest pioneers.
>
>         Robyn Francis is an award-winning international permaculture  
> designer, educator, presenter and innovator, with over 25 years of  
> permaculture work throughout Australia New Zealand, USA, India,  
> Indonesia, Germany, Cuba, and Taiwan, and including projects ranging  
> from outback communities to urban development. . Robyn was founding  
> director of Permaculture International Ltd (PIL) in 1987, editor of  
> the Permaculture International Journal, designer and creator of  
> Djanbung Gardens (www.  permaculture.com.au), one of Australia's  
> leading permaculture centers.
>
>         The event takes place on Saturday, Aug 8 , 6:30 pm at the  
> downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St, Santa  
> Barbara. Donation $5, no reservations needed.  The event is  
> presented by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Non-Profit. and  
> Quailsprings Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm.  For more  
> information, (805) 962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org,    www.sbpermaculture.org
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> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
>    an educational non-profit since 2000
> (805) 962-2571
> P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
> margie at sbpermaculture.org
>  www.sbpermaculture.org
>
> "We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in  
> order to grow." - Anonymous
> First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
>  http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org

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