[Reader-list] Green Urbanity: Screening of The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil with Organic Food Potluck

[Kabir Khan]

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Indian Youth Climate Network- Bangalore invites you for the screening of
"The Power of Community- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" as a part of our
iAdapt Programme (Urban Adaptation).

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Date: 15th December, 2012
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: CLAY Learning and Education Research Center, 526/A Ganesh Complex,
19th Main, 3rd Sector, HSR Layout, Bangalore

Movie Briefing:

The documentary, "The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was
inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through
Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and
speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May Pat and Faith attended
the second meeting of
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil
geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously
close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they
learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and
survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to
see for themselves how Cuba had done this. During their first trip to Cuba,
in the summer of 2003, they traveled from Havana to Trinidad and through
several other towns on their way back to Havana. They found what Cubans
call "The Special Period" astounding and Cuban's responses very moving.
Faith found herself wanting to document on film Cuba's successes so that
what they had done wouldn't be lost. Both of them wanted to learn more
about Cuba's transition from large farms or plantations and reliance on
fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and
urban gardens. Cuba was undergoing a transition from a highly industrial
society to a sustainable one. Cuba became, for them, a living example of
how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with
sooner or later, the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources. In
the fall of 2003 Pat and Faith had the opportunity to return to Cuba to
study its agriculture. It was a wonderful trip. They saw much of the
island, met many farmers and urban gardeners, scientists and engineers -
traveling more than 1700 miles, from one end of Cuba to the other. It was
all they had hoped for and more. In 2004 Community Service, Inc. (CSI)
began raising money and organizing a third trip (October), to film in Cuba.
Greg Green, cinematographer and director of The End of Suburbia
documentary, was the chief videographer. Faith Morgan shot the second
camera, John Morgan did still photography and Megan Quinn, Outreach
Director of CSI, was sound director. After their return from Cuba, they
secured assistance and direction from Tom Blessing IV, producer, and Eric
Johnson, post-production supervisor and editor. Together, they bring over
40 years combined experience in film and television production. The goals
of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the
consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American's prejudice of
Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by
having the people tell their story on film. It's a story of their
dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of
cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an
island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits
to natural resources. Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes
that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as
another, much larger, island.

Post Movie:

We would like you to contribute in the Pot-luck organic supper with Green
Tea Party. Bring some organic food along with you.

Share your reflections over the Green Movement while enjoying the supper.

Hoping to see you soon.
Cheers!

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Contact persons:
Brinda
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Kabir
9663427315
kabir at iycn.in
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With deep regards

कबीर/کبیر

Phone:00-91-96-63-427-315

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