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
Please RSVP to Cory Brennan,
cory8570@yahoo.com, for address
and directions.
Event Contact:
eric@einem.us,
626-796-7325
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Climate 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.org
A grassroots response to the
coming decline of fossil fuel extraction.
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