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Sustainable Ballard's Sustainability Movie Series presents:
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, Doors Open at 6:30PM
Sunset Hill Community Club, 3003 NW 66th St.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is a project of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, a non-profit organization that designs and teaches low-energy solutions to the current unsustainable, fossil fuel based, industrialized, and centralized way of living. Visit www.communitysolution.org for more information.
Check here for trailer
Snacks available, discussion afterwards, $5 suggested donation.
Community Guild Meeting
Date TBD
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Cuzco Café, 5701 15th Ave. NW
(Across 15th Ave. from the Ballard Market, next to Grease Monkey)
Join us for coffee, Peruvian sweets and conversation and find out what is cooking at the Community Guild.
A book club, YES! magazine discussion group, movie night, outings to theater and the comedy club are getting organized.
Come share your ideas, hear what others are excited about, be inspired and find collaborators.
Hope to see you there!
| "Being a neighbor is a skill like any other, and it’s a skill we’ve increasingly lost as we’ve turned into hyperindividuals...The big question for this century may turn out to be how fast we can relearn the skill of neighborliness." -Bill McKibben
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