Screening of "Power of Community" / Foodforest Tour
Friday, June 23, 7:00 PM
Tour a residential foodforest in Sunland, and then watch an outdoor screening of "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil".
Food forestry expert Adonijah Miyamura has created a demonstration site for his food forestry at a private residence in Sunland. The site includes numerous exotic trees and a raised bed garden of international, non-hybrid vegetables. Adonijah has studied permaculture with Bill Mollison, indigenous growing techniques from many countries, biointensive methods from Europe and more over a 25+ year period. He has planted numerous food forests in the inner city and it is his
mission to continue to bring the knowledge of food sustainability to inner city Los Angeles. He is perhaps most well known for creating a food forest on the Crenshaw High School campus.
At the residential site, there are 10 different types of bananas, and several varieties of peaches, figs, grapes, and mango. There's an mullberry tree from Afghanistan, there's cheremoya, white zapote (Adonijah has chocolate too), blueberry and much else. The veggie bed is not quite ready but might be happening by the film showing and will include heirloom seeds from the deep south and possibly other countries.
When:
Friday June 23
7:00 - Foodforest Tour and Reception
8:30 - Screening of Power of Community
9:30 - Discussion
Where:
Residential site
Sunland, CA
Event Contact:
eric@einem.us, 626-796-7325
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak OilClimate change and peak oil challenge us to to change how we live in ways that are hard to imagine. How will we respond, and what systems are possible to help us
adapt to radically changing conditions? One powerful model we can learn from is Cuba.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s Cuba experienced the sudden loss of trade and over 50 percent of their oil imports. Cuba's Gross Domestic Product dropped by more than one third, transportation halted and food became scarce - on average Cubans lost 20 pounds during the first 3 years of the economic crisis. Yet Cubans triumphed over adversity through local solutions. The film visits urban gardens and organic farms, explains the relationship between food and fossil fuels, and shows how a society can change from an industrialized, global focus to a local, community based one. It is a rare view into this island culture, using firsthand reporting that focuses on what Cuban's have learned and can share about adapting to living with less.
http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html
Eric Einem
Pasadena Post Carbon Outpost Coordinator
http://www.lapostcarbon.orgA grassroots response to the coming decline of fossil fuel extraction. __________________________________________________
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