Castro says Cuban system to stay
Cuban President Raul Castro says he is willing to talk with the US, but Cuba's communist system will remain in place.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/8180158.stm
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8/17/2009
4/10/2009
e-Blast from Sustainable Sandhills
Volume Three | April 10, 2009
Alma Easom Primary School Goes Green
Alma Easom, a K-1 primary school in Cumberland County, is going green with the help of the PTA and Sustainable Sandhills. Alma Easom's efforts started in 2006 when Connie Graham, Alma Easom Principal, encouraged staff to conserve by turning off lights in unoccupied rooms. Alma Easom won the Cumberland County Schools Energy Incentive Program and was awarded a voucher for $5,569. Read more!
What Would We Do Without Oil?
The next free film in our Sustainable Film Series is the inspiring and award-winning documentary, The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. The film documents the struggle of the Cuban people after they became the first country to face the peak oil crisis. When you realize how much of our lifestyle relies on oil, you begin to understand the massive changes that took place, almost overnight, in Cuba. In addition to transportation and power outages, the most immediate problem became food scarcity. As hunger spread, people were left with no other choice than to grow food wherever they could, leading to widespread urban farming. Read more!
Operation Inasmuch "Operates" on Fayetteville
Sustainable Sandhills partnered with Operation Inasmuch and more than 1200 volunteers on Saturday, April 4 to transform 30 homes in a daylong home improvement "blitz" in Fayetteville. Over a year's time, the energy and water-saving measures provided on April 4 will conserve thousands of gallons of water and kilowatt-hours, saving these homeowners a significant amount of their hard-earned income. Read more!
Upcoming Calendar of Events
April 11: Sustainable Sandhills Urban Farm Tour - Find out more!
April 14: Moore County Sustainable Film Series, The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Sandhills Community College, Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room. 3395 Airport Rd., Pinehurst. Read more!
April 18: Earth Day Celebration at The Apple Crate (Sustainable Sandhills Certified Green Business) 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Fayetteville. Find out more!
April 21 & 22: The Green Summit, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Rd., Pinehurst. Visit sandhills.edu for more information.
April 22: EARTH DAY
April 23: Lee County Community Action Team KICKOFF, 6:30-8:00 p.m., McSwain Cooperative Extension Service Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford.
April 25: "Win With Air Quality - Recycling and Alternative Transportation' Poster Contest Awards at the Partnership for Children's KidStuff Stage at the Dogwood Festival, Fayetteville.
Support Sustainable Sandhills
Our continued growth and success depends in large part on your support.
Alma Easom Primary School Goes Green
Alma Easom, a K-1 primary school in Cumberland County, is going green with the help of the PTA and Sustainable Sandhills. Alma Easom's efforts started in 2006 when Connie Graham, Alma Easom Principal, encouraged staff to conserve by turning off lights in unoccupied rooms. Alma Easom won the Cumberland County Schools Energy Incentive Program and was awarded a voucher for $5,569. Read more!
What Would We Do Without Oil?
The next free film in our Sustainable Film Series is the inspiring and award-winning documentary, The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. The film documents the struggle of the Cuban people after they became the first country to face the peak oil crisis. When you realize how much of our lifestyle relies on oil, you begin to understand the massive changes that took place, almost overnight, in Cuba. In addition to transportation and power outages, the most immediate problem became food scarcity. As hunger spread, people were left with no other choice than to grow food wherever they could, leading to widespread urban farming. Read more!
Operation Inasmuch "Operates" on Fayetteville
Sustainable Sandhills partnered with Operation Inasmuch and more than 1200 volunteers on Saturday, April 4 to transform 30 homes in a daylong home improvement "blitz" in Fayetteville. Over a year's time, the energy and water-saving measures provided on April 4 will conserve thousands of gallons of water and kilowatt-hours, saving these homeowners a significant amount of their hard-earned income. Read more!
Upcoming Calendar of Events
April 11: Sustainable Sandhills Urban Farm Tour - Find out more!
April 14: Moore County Sustainable Film Series, The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Sandhills Community College, Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room. 3395 Airport Rd., Pinehurst. Read more!
April 18: Earth Day Celebration at The Apple Crate (Sustainable Sandhills Certified Green Business) 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Fayetteville. Find out more!
April 21 & 22: The Green Summit, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Rd., Pinehurst. Visit sandhills.edu for more information.
April 22: EARTH DAY
April 23: Lee County Community Action Team KICKOFF, 6:30-8:00 p.m., McSwain Cooperative Extension Service Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford.
April 25: "Win With Air Quality - Recycling and Alternative Transportation' Poster Contest Awards at the Partnership for Children's KidStuff Stage at the Dogwood Festival, Fayetteville.
Support Sustainable Sandhills
Our continued growth and success depends in large part on your support.
4/08/2009
SS Film, How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, Apr. 14, SCC
Moore County Sustainable Film SeriesTuesday, April 14th, 6:30-8pm | Sandhills Community College, Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room
Our Next Film: “The Power of Community- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Sustainable Sandhills will be showing the second film in our Film Series focused on sustainability-related topics. The desire of Sustainable Sandhills is to heighten public awareness of pressing sustainability issues and to encourage community dialogue following each film.
The next film in our sustainable film series is the inspiring and award winning documentary, “The Power of Community-How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” by the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. The film documents the struggle of the Cuban people after they became the first country faced with the peak oil crisis. With oil supplies drastically reduced and hunger spreading, people were left with no other choice and resorted to growing food wherever they could, which led to widespread urban gardening. As a follow-up to our upcoming Urban Farm Tour, “The Power of community” will take a look at local food as a necessity.
It will be shown Tuesday, April 14th, at Sandhills Community College's Dempsey Student Center, upstairs in the Clement Dining Room from 6:30-8:00 PM. The Film Series is held on a bi-monthly schedule, alternating with the Sustainable Sandhills Moore County Community Action Team Meetings. Each film will be aired from 6:30-8:00 PM at the same location, and the remaining 2009 revised schedule is as follows: June 18th, August 20th, October 22nd, and December 10th.
Bring the family! All ages are invited to attend and it’s FREE!!! We look forward to seeing you there!
Don’t Forget these upcoming events:
April 11th Urban Farm Tour.
April 21st & 22nd Sandhills Community College, Green Summit
Please contact Amanda with any questions regarding the Film Series at amandab@sustainablesandhills.org
Our Next Film: “The Power of Community- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Sustainable Sandhills will be showing the second film in our Film Series focused on sustainability-related topics. The desire of Sustainable Sandhills is to heighten public awareness of pressing sustainability issues and to encourage community dialogue following each film.
The next film in our sustainable film series is the inspiring and award winning documentary, “The Power of Community-How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” by the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. The film documents the struggle of the Cuban people after they became the first country faced with the peak oil crisis. With oil supplies drastically reduced and hunger spreading, people were left with no other choice and resorted to growing food wherever they could, which led to widespread urban gardening. As a follow-up to our upcoming Urban Farm Tour, “The Power of community” will take a look at local food as a necessity.
It will be shown Tuesday, April 14th, at Sandhills Community College's Dempsey Student Center, upstairs in the Clement Dining Room from 6:30-8:00 PM. The Film Series is held on a bi-monthly schedule, alternating with the Sustainable Sandhills Moore County Community Action Team Meetings. Each film will be aired from 6:30-8:00 PM at the same location, and the remaining 2009 revised schedule is as follows: June 18th, August 20th, October 22nd, and December 10th.
Bring the family! All ages are invited to attend and it’s FREE!!! We look forward to seeing you there!
Don’t Forget these upcoming events:
April 11th Urban Farm Tour.
April 21st & 22nd Sandhills Community College, Green Summit
Please contact Amanda with any questions regarding the Film Series at amandab@sustainablesandhills.org
3/24/2009
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Sustainable Sandhills' next film in our Sustainable Film Series will be "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" on April 14th at Sandhills Community College. Join us for this inspiring documentary and bring a friend, it is free!!!
12/16/2008
6/20/2008
Mortgage Fraud, Cuba, More War $ from Dems
FBI holds 406 for mortgage fraud *The FBI says it has arrested 406property market players as part of a crackdown on mortgage fraud.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/business/7464298.stm
EU to lift sanctions against Cuba *The European Union is to lift sanctions on Cuba it imposed in 2003 in protest at the jailing of dissidents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7463803.stm
US House approves war funds bill *The Democrat-held US House of Representatives approves $162bn to pay for another year of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7464911.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/business/7464298.stm
EU to lift sanctions against Cuba *The European Union is to lift sanctions on Cuba it imposed in 2003 in protest at the jailing of dissidents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7463803.stm
US House approves war funds bill *The Democrat-held US House of Representatives approves $162bn to pay for another year of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7464911.stm
6/09/2008
1/25/2008
Urban Gardens
Urban gardens now produce about 60 percent of all vegetables consumed in Cuba
and 50 percent of all vegetables consumed in Havana, more than from the
organoponicos (farms) and intensive gardens combined. City Farmer News
and 50 percent of all vegetables consumed in Havana, more than from the
organoponicos (farms) and intensive gardens combined. City Farmer News
10/31/2007
Embargo Continues
UN Renews Near-Unanimous Call to End US Embargo on Cuba
The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the sixteenth consecutive year. Tuesday’s vote was one-hundred-eighty-four to four. The U.S., Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands were the lone countries opposed. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque called the vote a repudiation of longstanding U.S. policy.
Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque: "The United States has ignored with both arrogance and political blindness the fifteen resolutions adopted by this General Assembly calling for the lifting of the blockade against Cuba. The blockade is today the main obstacle to the development and well-being of the Cubans and a blatant, massive and systematic violation to the rights of our people."
The vote comes just days after President Bush vowed to maintain the embargo on Cuba through the end of his presidency.
The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the sixteenth consecutive year. Tuesday’s vote was one-hundred-eighty-four to four. The U.S., Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands were the lone countries opposed. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque called the vote a repudiation of longstanding U.S. policy.
Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque: "The United States has ignored with both arrogance and political blindness the fifteen resolutions adopted by this General Assembly calling for the lifting of the blockade against Cuba. The blockade is today the main obstacle to the development and well-being of the Cubans and a blatant, massive and systematic violation to the rights of our people."
The vote comes just days after President Bush vowed to maintain the embargo on Cuba through the end of his presidency.
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