Kits Village Movie Night: Power of Community -- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Sunday evening -- Jan 30

Please join us for a potluck and screening of Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006, 53 min.), followed by a discussion on how this relates to Kits Village, VV, and the Transition Town movement.

Child friendly.

Sunday, Jan 30 , 5:30-8:30 PM, at the home of Pia and Hart,  #31 -1480 Arbutus (Buzz Pia Massie), at Cornwall, just across the street from Kits Beach.

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When Cuba lost access to Soviet Oil in the early 1990's, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive farming, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one.

This film tells the story of the Cuban people's hardship, ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity -- through cooperation, conservation and community, told in their own words. As the world approaches Peak Oil, Cuba provides a valuable example of how to successfully address the challenge of reducing our energy use.

"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 one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge."

-Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Powerdown