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Cuba has already been through economic collapse as a result of the shortage of energy resources. That happened after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989 and Cuba lost its primary sugar market and the source of almost all its petroleum. The Cubans rose to the occasion, and today are a model of sustainability for the rest of the world.

For more on Cuba as a society and how it dealt with what it calls its "Special Period", see the Cuba section of our Societies page.

Note: For everything you'd ever want to know about Cuba, visit Radio Free Cuba.


The Power of Community

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (article)

How Cuba survived Peak Oil. (DVD)
Cuba's transition from an industrial petroleum-based society to a sustainable society, as a result of their loss of petroleum when their source the Soviet Union collapsed.

Food

How Cubans successfully responded to their own equivalent of Peak Oil

Diversified agricultural production in the two countries

Urban gardens, organic gardening and much more

How Cuba dealt with food shortages. Can industrial countries do it too?

More on Cuban agriculture

Article in Sustainable Times

Urban gardening and community food preservation

DVD from Food First

Cuba's Experiment with Organic Agriculture [book]

Sustainable Urban Agriculture

Article in Multinational Monitor

Activities of the Australian Conservation Foundation's Urban Permaculture Project in Cuba

Transforming Food Production in Cuba [book]

"The largest conversion in world history from conventional agriculture to organic or semi-organic farming."


Health

Article on the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine

How Cuba is integrating natural remedies into its public health care - Salon article

Cuban health politics at home and abroad [book]

Official Spanish language site of Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina that offers free medical training for students from throughout the Americas and other regions (including poor areas of the U.S.) - (Information on the school in English) - Scholarship Program including scholarships for U.S. students

Family Medicine paper

Article in Russian weekly newspaper

Transportation

Green transportation by default