[Scpg] Film screening and food forest tour, LA area Friday, June 23, 7:00 PM

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Screening of "Power of Community" / Foodforest Tour


Friday, June 23, 7:00 PM

Tour a residential foodforest in Sunland, and then watch an outdoor 
screening of "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil".

Food forestry expert Adonijah Miyamura has created a demonstration site for 
his food forestry at a private residence in Sunland. The site includes 
numerous exotic trees and a raised bed garden of international, non-hybrid 
vegetables. Adonijah has studied permaculture with Bill Mollison, 
indigenous growing techniques from many countries, biointensive methods 
from Europe and more over a 25+ year period.  He has planted numerous food 
forests in the inner city and it is his mission to continue to bring the 
knowledge of food sustainability to inner city Los Angeles. He is perhaps 
most well known for creating a food forest on the Crenshaw High School campus.

At the residential site, there are 10 different types of bananas, and 
several varieties of peaches, figs, grapes, and mango. There's an mullberry 
tree from Afghanistan, there's cheremoya, white zapote (Adonijah has 
chocolate too), blueberry and much else.  The veggie bed is not quite ready 
but might be happening by the film showing and will include heirloom seeds 
from the deep south and possibly other countries.

When:

Friday June 23
7:00 - Foodforest Tour and Reception
8:30 - Screening of Power of Community
9:30 - Discussion


Where:

Residential site
Sunland, CA

Please RSVP to Cory Brennan, <mailto:cory8570 at yahoo.com>cory8570 at yahoo.com, 
for address and directions.

Event Contact: 
<http://us.f526.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=eric@einem.us>eric at einem<http://us.f526.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=eric@einem.us>.us, 
626-796-7325

Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Climate change and peak oil challenge us to to change how we live in ways 
that are hard to imagine. How will we respond, and what systems are 
possible to help us adapt to radically changing conditions? One powerful 
model we can learn from is Cuba.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s Cuba experienced the 
sudden loss of trade and over 50 percent of their oil imports. Cuba's Gross 
Domestic Product dropped by more than one third, transportation halted and 
food became scarce - on average Cubans lost 20 pounds during the first 3 
years of the economic crisis. Yet Cubans triumphed over adversity through 
local solutions. The film visits urban gardens and organic farms, explains 
the relationship between food and fossil fuels, and shows how a society can 
change from an industrialized, global focus to a local, community based 
one. It is a rare view into this island culture, using firsthand reporting 
that focuses on what Cuban's have learned and can share about adapting to 
living with less.
<http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html>http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html


Eric Einem
Pasadena Post Carbon Outpost Coordinator
<http://www.lapostcarbon.org/>http://www.lapostcarbon.org
A grassroots response to the coming decline of fossil fuel extraction.

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