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Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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THE COMMUNITY SOLUTION

Produced and Written by
FAITH MORGAN, EUGENE "PAT" MURPHY & MEGAN QUINN

Directed by
FAITH MORGAN

Edited by
ERIC JOHNSON

Narrated by
BRUCE CROMER

Cinematography in Cuba
GREGORY GREENE, FAITH MORGAN & TOM BLESSING IV

Photography and Digital Media
JOHN MORGAN

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The Power of Community:
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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Cuba, an isolated island nation, rebuilt its quality of life following the collapse of cheap oil, supplied by the former Soviet Union. This fascinating and empowering film shows how communities pulled together, created solutions, and ultimately thrived in spite of their decreased dependence on imported energy.


Find Out More:

WEBSITES:

Community Solutions: www.communitysolution.org/resources.html

Peak Oil and Energy news and analysis sites:
www.energybulletin.net and www.theoildrum.com

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: www.powerofcommunity.org


ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT CUBA:
Cuba: Going Against the Grain, Oxfam America, 2001
By Minor Sinclair and Martha Thompson
This Oxfam America report looks at how Cuba has successfully turned a severe food crisis into a sustained recovery in food production. Through a combination of sweeping reforms and innovations in ecological agriculture, Cuba's countryside has changed dramatically.

Cuba, a Revolution in Motion, Fernwood Books, By Isaac Saney

Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, FoodFirst Books, 2002
By Funes, Garcia, Bourque, Perez and Rosset

ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT PEAK OIL:
Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change, Community Solutions, 2008
By Pat Murphy

The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, New Society Publishers, 2005
By Richard Heinberg

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, Grove/Atlantic, 2005, By James Howard Kunstler

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak, Hill and Wang, 2006, By Kenneth S. Deffeyes

BOOK ON COMMUNITY
The Small Community, Community Solutions, 1942, By Arthur Morgan



Major underwriting provided by:
General Hydroponics
Wallace Genetic Foundation
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