[Scpg] Cuban film and discussion Fri August 18th 7pm Karpeles Manuscript Museum Santa Barbara

Thu Aug 10 10:03:19 PDT 2006



>New Documentary Film on Cuba
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>The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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>Friday August 18, 2006 7:00pm
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>Karpeles Manuscript Museum
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>21 West Anapamu St. Santa Barbara, CA
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>>Admission: Free!
>>Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Speaker and discussion to follow film. With the 
>>loss of Soviet oil in 1990, Cuba was forced to undergo an artificial 
>>"Peak Oil." This documentary explores how the island nation, through its 
>>focus on community, managed not only to survive but to transform their 
>>entire society to a sustainable, low-energy-use system. Also what is the 
>>future of Cuba post-Fidel? Want to travel to Cuba? Come and learn how! 
>>For more information please contact Tanya Cole at 
>><mailto:hola2tanya at yahoo.com>hola2tanya at yahoo.com or call 805-646-7129.
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>>Speaker-Rachel Bruhnke Biography
>>Rachel Bruhnke specializes in the research of sustainability policies in 
>>Cuba and their relevance to U.S. communities and decision makers. She was 
>>granted an M.S. in Environmental Engineering for her research on 
>>renewable energy policy in Cuba, and afterwards directed the Eco Cuba 
>>program at the Global Exchange. Ms. Bruhnke was a Peace Corps Volunteer 
>>in Honduras for 3 years, and has traveled and worked extensively 
>>throughout Latin America. She teaches High School Spanish and is the 
>>mother of a 2-year old Cuban American daughter, Alma. She is founding 
>>director of the nonprofit organization CUSSP (Cuba-US Sustainability 
>>Project) which supports environmental understanding between the United 
>>States and Cuba. She can be contacted at: 
>><mailto:sojournerrb at yahoo.com>sojournerrb at yahoo.com
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>>The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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>>YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – May 2006 The just released film, The Power of 
>>Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, documents Cuba’s emergency 
>>transition to local organic agriculture, renewable energy, and 
>>large-scale mass transit. The transition occurred following the Soviet 
>>collapse in 1990, when their massive subsidies of imported oil and food 
>>to Cuba were halted.
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>>In this documentary, ordinary Cubans talk about the immediate hardships 
>>they faced. Their GDP dropped by more than one third, transportation 
>>nearly stopped and food became scarce - the average Cuban lost 20 pounds 
>>during the first years of this economic crisis.
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>>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 Cubans learned about adapting to living 
>>with less.
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>>Cuba’s experience provides a living model for how the rest of the world 
>>can respond to the coming world oil production peak and irreversible 
>>decline some oil experts say will occur this decade. “Everyone who is 
>>concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film,” said Richard Heinberg, 
>>author of The Party's Over and Powerdown. “It is a story not just of 
>>individual achievement, but of the collective mobilization of an entire 
>>society to meet an enormous challenge.”
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>>The documentary is drawing rave reviews with such comments as,
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>>“
The most uplifting portrayal of a success story coming out of chaos,” 
>>and “A must see for survival in the next energy age beyond oil.” Viewer 
>>Joshua Lockyer, of Atlanta said, “If we want to know how we as a nation 
>>are going to survive the peak oil crisis we need to have models...This 
>>film begins to show us how.”
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>>The Community Solution, Executive Producer of the film, is a non-profit 
>>organization in Yellow Springs, Ohio dedicated to seeking viable, 
>>low-energy options to the coming peak oil crisis. It hosts the annual 
>>“U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions,” and offers other 
>>programs to increase public awareness about peak oil.
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>>Producers Faith Morgan, Pat Murphy, and Megan Quinn traveled to Cuba in 
>>2004 to capture Cubans’ story on film. Greg Greene, videographer and 
>>writer/director of the documentary The End of Suburbia, and photographer 
>>John Morgan, traveled with them as additional crew in Cuba. Eric Johnson 
>>was editor and Tom Blessing IV, associate producer.
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>>The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil runs for 53 minutes 
>>and is available on DVD or VHS for $20 plus shipping and handling. To 
>>order, visit, visit 
>><x-msg://145/eudora/eudora/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLK17/www.communitysolution.org/cuba>www.communitysolution.org/cuba 
>>or call 937-767-2161.
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