[Scpg] [hd-films-sb] Fwd: *FRI AUGUST 7 /Sustainable World Radio Interview with Australian Permaculturist Robyn Francis Permaculture in Cuba

Wed Aug 5 09:07:02 PDT 2009

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> From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe at silcom.com 
> >
> Date: August 5, 2009 8:38:23 AM PDT
> To: info at hopedance.org
> Subject: *FRI AUGUST 7 /Sustainable World Radio Interview with  
> Australian Permaculturist Robyn Francis Permaculture in Cuba
>
> Friday, August 7 , 9-10am, Sustainable World Radio
>  Interview with Robyn Francis about Permaculture in Cuba
> on Sustainable World Radio, KCSB 91.9 FM PST
>  also streaming live on www.kcsb.org, interviews posted later on  www.sustainableworldradio.com
>         Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio for an  
> interview with Robyn Francis as she speaks about her past 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.
> Joining Jill in studio will be Wes Roe and Margie Bushman of Santa  
> Barbara Permaculture Network
>
> More Info/Resources/Websites:
>
>         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.
>
>
> <<<>>>
> Upcoming Event:
> Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Permaculture Around the World  
> Series with Robyn Francis from Australia speaking on Permaculture in  
> CUBA
> Saturday, Aug 8 , 6:30-8:30 pm at the downtown Santa Barbara Public  
> Library, 40 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA. Donation $5, no  
> reservations needed.  For more information visit our website at:  www.sbpermaculture.org
> .
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