Several coop members watching the film ' Cuba, the Green Revolution'.
If there is a film to let us see what can be done to help solve the potential crisis in food, it is this one. Cuba, the Green Revolution, closely follows the necessary implementation, in Havana, of a plan for the city dwellers to feed themselves. With the end of the Eastern Bloc and the continuation of the US-led Embargo, the Cubans had to make a decision that it was innovate or starve. They chose to innovate.
We had a great, though short, discussion after the screening about what it would take for us, as a nation or as individuals, to move in the direction of food self-sufficiency. Most of us were not totally optimistic that there was a collective will to do this, but at least we had had an opportunity to see what it would take.
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I may have mentioned another film along similar lines before, but it is definitely worth seeing: It's put out by the Community Solutions folks (lots of events/films/people sharing info about peak oil and sustainability) and it's called The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Community:_How_Cuba_Survived_Peak_Oil
The message is very inspiring, especially when the younger generation had to find community elders who still knew how to farm without many off-farm inputs. They had a microcosm/sped-up version of what we'll be seeing over the coming decades. I am skeptical that the "mainstream" will pursue sustainable solutions until it is absolutely necessary (and probably too late to develop deep infrastructure and networks needed to support this new way of life), but at least this "sidestream" population is taking giant steps in the right direction. I miss you Gillian, and I'm so glad to see things going well via this blog.
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