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Wed 2 Aug 2006

The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Permaculture , Peak Oil , Energy , Agriculture , Cuba
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With the annoucement yesterday that Fidel Castro is handing power over to his brother, due to ill health, this is perhaps a good time to have a look at how Cuba coped with it’s own artificially enforced version of peak oil. When the Soviet Union collapsed, and with it Cuba’s supply of subsidised oil, Cube underwent an profound oil crisis that can provide some interesting lessons on how we might cope with the reality of peak oil. Today Hugo Chavez is supplying Cuba with oil and it would be interesting to know to what extent things have changed back to oil dependency.

Perhaps the most profound change caused by the Cuban oil crisis was the forced areplacement of centralised, industrial monocultural agriculture with a revolution in permaculture. The following piece, which first appeared in Permaculture Activist, Spring 2006 (www.permacultureactivist.net) was written by Megan Quinn, outreach director for The Community Solution ( www.communitysolution.org). (more…)

Tue 13 Jun 2006

“Beyond Petroleum” or Business as Usual?

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Permaculture , Nuclear
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Sun 19 Feb 2006

Retraining for the future, returning to the land

Posted by Darragh Field under Peakist , Permaculture , Post peak , Environment , Agriculture
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Sun 19 Feb 2006

Reproducing the Amazon’s black soil could bolster fertility and remove carbon from atmosphere, says Cornell biogeochemist

Posted by Darragh Field under Peakist , Permaculture , Carbon , Environment , Agriculture
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Sun 19 Feb 2006

Besides food, farming can provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming

Posted by Darragh Field under Peakist , Permaculture , Carbon , Post peak , Global Warming , Environment
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Fri 17 Feb 2006

Sustainable agriculture delivers the crops

Posted by Darragh Field under Peakist , Permaculture , Economics
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