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Title: The Greening Of Cuba with special guest Rachel Bru
START DATE: 3/5/2005
START TIME: 6:30 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: Pasadena
Location Details:
Path to Freedom
631 Cypress Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
www.PathtoFreedom.com
Event Topic: environment
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name: Anais
Contact Email: dervaes@pathtofreedom.com
Contact Phone: 626.795.8400
DESCRIPTION:
THE GREENING OF CUBA

Cuba is the only country that has successfully passed through its own artificial "peak oil"



WHEN: Saturday, March 5

TIME: 6:30 - 9:00 pm

FEE: - donation

Event includes a potluck. Please bring some healthful snacks or drink to share.

Space is limited so please RSVP

www.pathtofreedom.com/outreach/events/greeningofcuba.htm



"With 80% of the food grown organically in or around metro areas by regional co-ops, using animals as workforce, mules and oxen, will make Cuba a virtual paradise compared to the collapse of the western agriculture after peak oil."

~ Michael C. Ruppert, From the Wilderness ~



EVENT DESCRIPTION: Film followed by slide show presentation and Q & A session by Rachel Bruhnke

Because of their response to this dire situation, the Cubans have been praised for being the number one country in the world for their sustainable practices by the United Nations. Cut off from trade by the United States, in 1993 Cuba lost its critical oil imports from the Soviet Union almost overnight. The country had to learn to do without it, and today has lessons for the rest of the world about how it can be done. Learn how they managed to do it and what lessons could be taken from their experience with agrarian, low energy, cooperative lifestyle.



FILM DESCRIPTION: The Greening of Cuba video profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting edge bio-technology.



SPEAKER'S BACKGROUND: Rachel Bruhnke received a Masters of Science Degree in 2001 in Environmental Systems Engineering for her research on renewable energy policy in Cuba. Subsequently, she directed the Eco Cuba Exchange program at the NGO Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org) , based in San Francisco, California.



The program linked US and Cuba professionals in the areas of sustainable management of natural resources and environmental protection. Ms. Bruhnke was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras for 3 years, has studied and worked in Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica, and has traveled extensively through Latin America. She also holds a bilingual elementary teaching credential and is the mother of a Cuban American daughter. Ms. Bruhnke is currently working toward a PhD from the University of Havana, Cuba, researching the potential for US-Cuba trade in the environmental marketplace.
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