7:30 pm ~ Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Hiawatha Public Library

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, Cuba lost over half of its oil imports. The country underwent a transition from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. In 2003, filmmakers traveled to Cuba to record its transition from large plantations and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides/fertilizers to small organic farms and urban gardens.

Cuba is a living example of how a country can successfully traverse what we all will have to deal with soon: the reduction and loss of finite fossil fuel resources. This film can give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of its addiction to oil. “The Power of Community” is an astounding and moving documentary. It is a story of independence, triumph over adversity, and cooperation.
There ARE limits to natural resources. Worldwide peak oil is here. It is now. We all live on an island.