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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Synopsis:
There is much to learn from Cuba's response to the loss of cheap and abundant oil. The staff of Community Solutions sees these lessons as especially important for people in developing countries, who make up 82 percent of the world's About the Filmmaker: Faith Morgan is a film director, writer, painter and sculptor (although this was her first film). She has been associated with the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (formerly Community Service, Inc.), a non-profit organization in Yellow Springs, OH, for many years. Over the last four years she has attended the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas meetings in Europe and helped plan and implement the first three U.S. conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions. In 2003 she made two trips to Cuba to study what happened after the USSR collapsed in 1990, when Cuba’s oil subsidies were suddenly cut in half. In 2004 she was part of the film crew, going back to Cuba to document the story of this major social disaster and Cuba’s creative response to living without cheap, abundant oil. She directed and co-wrote the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, released in May, 2006. Reviews: “...the best "short history of Peak Oil" that I have seen anywhere! - Marc Franke |
Event Partners:  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) 
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent -people were desperate. This fascinating and empowering film shows how communities
pulled together, created solutions, and ultimately thrived in spite of their decreased dependence on imported energy.