The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2/4)

American documentary film that explores the Special Period in Peacetime and its aftermath; the economic collapse and eventual recovery of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following the dramatic steps taken by both the Cuban government and citizens, its major themes include urban agriculture, energy dependence, and sustainability.

http://publicfilm.blogspot.com/2011/06/power-of-community-how-cuba-survived.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• The power od communist
• how cuba survived peak oil
• cuba
• latin america
• oil
• crisis
• energy
• globalwarming
• climate
• solar
• gas
• green

[tamerseeker]

I think this doc. is more about making hippies than about urban agriculture. It's about how Cuba made a nation full of hippies overnight.

[longfinnedeeler]

@sierracuban You seemed to have missed the point...Cubans have learned to survive without oils...Americans haven't and with oil prices averaging $92.50 in 2011(oil was around 3 bucks a barrel in the early 1970s) Cubans are seen as a culture that innovated in how to survive in future world where demand for oil is increasing but supply decreasing. Do you really think Colin Campbell and Richard Heinberg are hippies? If so they are very educated and well regarded academic hippies

[revpunk1977]

@sierracuban so says the gusano.

[sierracuban]

PROPAGANDA COCHINA DE LOS COMUNISTAS.......The average Cuban citizen is FAMISHED and this video is nothing but propaganda.......

Cubans citizens have ONE RIGHT, and that is for the use of a food rationing booklet known as LA LIBRETA.....Cuba is such a happy place that thousands of Cubans per year try to flee by crossing the shark-infested Florida Straights, the piece of ocean between Cuba and Florida.....They risk their life for FREEDOM....And the Berkeley hippies try to blame the EMBARGO.