Roberto Pérez Rivero on the history of Cuban permaculture / permacultura
Hosted by Transition SF, Permaculture Guild, SF Urban Ag Alliance
Organized by Eco Cuba Exchange, Global Exchange
http://www.ecocubaexchange.org
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Roberto Perez Rivero, Secret Garden in San Francisco, hosted by People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
http://www.vimeo.com/21963228Eco Cuba Exchange /Global Exchange
invite you to participate in a week-long series of presentations by CUBAN permaculturist
Roberto Perez Rivero
of the
ANTONIO NUNEZ JIMENEZ FOUNDATION FOR NATURE AND HUMANITY
and featured in the film:
“The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Thursday, March 31 – Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Roberto Perez Rivero is the Environmental Education and Biodiversity Conservation Program Director of the Cuban NGO, the Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, the oldest environmental organization in Cuba. Mr. Perez has also served as their Project Officer on Urban Agriculture and Environmental Programs, Publishing Editor, and Teacher of Environmental Education, Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture. He has a Graduate Degree in Biology from the University of Havana and also studied Community-based Resource Management at the University of St. Francis Xavier, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 1999, Mr. Perez has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the United States, presenting Cuba’s approach to sustainable living in the face of declining petroleum and other nonrenewable resources.
In 2006, the World Wildlife Foundation, using a combination of the UNDP Human Development Index (health, education, food and shelter indices) and the Carbon Footprint (carbon use per capita), determined that Cuba was the only nation in the world living sustainably. How did this small, poor island nation achieve this distinction?
Mr. Perez will talk about Cuba’s progress and struggles in sustainable agriculture and sustainable development, especially in the last twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet bloc. If you have not yet seen the film, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, we highly recommend that you view it, prior to attending a presentation. The film is less than an hour in length and is available, in its entirety, at the website below. The first ten minutes focuses on the issue of peak oil in general, followed by 50 minutes of interviews with the Cuban environmental policy makers and practitioners, including Roberto Perez, who have brought about this dramatic evolution toward sustainability in Cuba.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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For more information about the Bay Area tour of Roberto Perez Rivero,
please contact: Pam Montanaro, Eco Cuba Exchange,
pam@globalexchange.org or 510-318-4910
http://www.ecocubaexchange.org
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Upcoming Eco Cuba Exchange Cuba research tours:
Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development/
Research Tour and Conference
July 2 – 15, 2011
Cuban Women and Sustainable Development
October 15 – 23, 2011
AgroEcology Conference/
Sustainable Agriculture and Urban Gardens
November 19 – 27, 2011
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Eco Cuba Exchange is a project of Global Exchange
organizing Cuba research tours with Global Exchange Reality Tours
Roberto Perez Rivero Itinerary
Thursday, March 31
Global Exchange staff and presentation
Merritt College with to see “model permaculture project”
6:30 pm Roberto co-teaches a permaculture class with Christopher Shein at Merritt College
Friday, April 1
1:00 pm Roberto co-teaches a class on sustainable eco systems with Booka Alon at Hayes Valley Farm
Saturday, April 2
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Sunday, April 3
11:00 am: Presentation for the Center for Political Education, PODER, and other organizations at Centro del Pueblo
6:00 pm: Berkeley Ecology Center presentation
Monday, April 4
12 noon: UC Berkeley, Cuba Working Group Presentation at Center for Latin American Studies
Tuesday, April 5
Occidental Ecology and Arts visit and presentation in evening
Wednesday, April 6
6 pm: Point Reyes, Regenerative Design Institute
6 pm: Transition SF, Permaculture Guild, SF Urban Ag Alliance (SFUAA)
co-host a presentation and Q&A session
Robyn Francis of Permaculture College Australia speaks in Santa Barbara about lessons from Cuban permaculture
Myths of Main Street: What does it really mean to “Go Local”?, Written by Adam Bessi
Rudy – Cuban Gynecologist and American Autosalesman – is the latest YouTube sensation, whose unbelievably cheesy local ad for T.D.M. Auto Sales out of High Point, NC hit national fame when it was featured on Leno as a “Bad Ad.”
Rudy’s ad wasn’t designed by Rudy, but outsourced to two self-proclaimed “Internetainers”, Rhett and Link, who look as if they stepped straight out of a Mac ad on their highly polished website. The duo – who have had a TV show, and have made web videos for Taco Bell, Hummer, Cadillac, and other major, multinational corporations – appear to have a knack for getting millions of hits on YouTube, and to “entertain first, advertise second”. In other words, Rhett and Link are professional marketing humorists, who produce funny content….which also happens to really advertise products.
So what would these guerrilla marketers for major corporations want with Rudy?
While the “Internetainers” are from North Carolina – like Rudy – the ad isn’t authentically local, by their own proud admission. Rather, Rudy’s ad is part of a larger – and very successful, in terms of number of hits – ad campaign sponsored not by Rudy, but by Microbilt Corportation, who wanted a series of “intentionally ‘local’ feeling commercials (complete with bad edits and ridiculous concepts)”.
In other words, the ad is a simulation of how a local ad is – it looks like one, is for an actual small business, and Rudy really is a Cuban Gynecologist turned car dealer. Yet, unlike a “real” local ad, this one is intentionally raw and unrefined by design, like a pair of $80 ripped jeans from the Gap. Further, the ad appears not just for Rudy’s potential customers, but is designed for a national audience, to promote Microbilt – a national corporation which makes its business supporting small and medium size businesses.
And while Microbilt may encourage local business, its ad campaign vividly illustrates a real danger of the new “local” zeitgeist: “Local” is not a reality, but a feel, a style, not a substance.
Source: Dailycensored.com
Roberto Perez and colleagues answer questions after a viewing of The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, Copenhagen, Klimaforum09
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