"We're never going to run out of oil, but what the world is going to run out of, indeed, what the world has already run out of, is the oil you can afford to burn."
      Jeff Rubin, Author

Today, instead of using only1 barrel of oil to produce 100 barrels of high-quality, clean-burning oil, we are now using about 1 barrel of oil, or its equivalent energy, to produce 3 barrels of poor-quality oil, some actually as filthy as the Canadian Tar Sands Oil.

That not only means many, many times more emissions, it also means that the price of oil hits you at the gas pump, in your food bill, at the medical clinic, and in everything you buy.

So…. What if you can't afford it? What do you do?

How do we, as a society, become oil-lean, and low-energy?

One answer is to emulate Cuba--and do it while we have time for a slow and easy adaptation instead of some future day just walking to the edge of the cliff and jumping off.

Cuba lost access to Soviet fossil fuels in the early 1990s, thus facing an immediate and complete Peak Oil. Everything from reliable electricity to gasoline to food refrigeration to air-conditioning ground to a halt. Food presented the most urgent crisis with the average Cuban losing 20 pounds before large-scale, industrial farms changed to local, organic ones.   

This DVD is Cuba's story of how cooperation, conservation, community, and courage brought their society to a sustainable, local, and eventually more peaceful way of life. It reinforces that there is nothing to fear here as long as we start walking that sustainable, local path now.

There will be a short discussion of this after the showing.