Event - 20120514

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Monday, May 14th, 7:00 pm
MIXX 96 Meeting Room, Corner of State & Washington

Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film. Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990's and how it did so constitutes some of the most important and hopeful stories of the past few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of a collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge.

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.

Richard Heinberg

Also showing Homegrown Revolution, a simple film short that introduces the Dervaes Family Urban Homestead. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family has been transforming their home into an urban homestead. They harvest three tons of organic food annually from their 1/10 acre garden, while incorporating back-to-basics practices, solar energy and biodiesel.