[FLPERMACULTURE] The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

[bosak at ibiblio.org]

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL

Sustainable Tompkins invites you to a showing of the documentary
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" at its
monthly community gathering Thursday January 11 in Ithaca.

Petroleum industry experts agree that global oil production will
reach a peak and then begin an irreversible decline some time in
the next 20 years, with profound implications for our way of life
and even our food supply.  Cuba got an unwilling preview of the
future when oil imports collapsed with the fall of the Soviet
Union in the early 1990s.  The story of Cuba's successful
management of energy descent through permaculture provides an
eye-opening look at the challenges facing us, the solutions
provided by a transition to organic farming, and the social
changes wrought by a return to local food production.

The movie, sponsored jointly by Sustainable Tompkins and TCLocal,
will be preceded by a potluck dinner beginning at 6 p.m. in the
Fort Room of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.  GIAC is
located at 318 North Albany Street (corner of Court Street and
Albany Street).  Participants are invited to bring a dish for the
potluck.  The gathering will include group discussion of the
lessons to be applied from the Cuban experience to our local
community and will end about 8:30.  Please join us and invite a
friend or two!

For more information, contact:

Elan Shapiro
Co-Chair, Sustainable Tompkins Program
607-275-0249
elansla at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us

Jon Bosak
Chair, TCLocal
bosak at ibiblio.org

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Sustainable Tompkins (www.sustainabletompkins.org) is a coalition
of citizens, community organizations, elected officials, educators
and professionals from diverse fields -- all working to promote a
more just and sustainable community.

TCLocal (tclocal.org) researches and plans for Tompkins County's
adaptation to a future of energy descent and a more local way of
life.