Green Drinks at the Town Hall for Transition Town Chesham
| January 26, 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Green Drinks on Thursday 26 January 2012 at 7.30-8.30pm will be held at Chesham Town Hall, Baines Walk, Chesham HP5 1DS. Please note the change from their usual venue. This January’s Green Drinks Speaker is Alice Maggs who will be exploring the question: ‘What can we learn from Cuba? Experiences of an energy crisis and what we can learn about building resilient communities‘. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba faced an economic crisis known as the Special Period in which it lost 80 per cent of its import/export market, decimating the country’s energy and food supplies. Cuba, along with North Korea and other communist satellites, faced the end of cheap imported oil that formed the backbone of their energy infrastructure.
In response to the crippling impact on living standards and the threat of mass starvation, Cuba took drastic steps to find solutions to the peak oil problem. Its 20 years of energy efficiency upgrades, community education around conservation, and utility-scale reinvention can offer powerful lessons for handling our own inevitable transition away from fossil fuels.
Go along and find out more. The evening costing £4 per person, including refreshments is hosted by Transition Town Chesham. Visit Transition Town Chesham.
Posted: 11:47 pm, 25th January, 2012
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