Eco Cuba Network Environment and Sustainability Resources
Cuba's Biosphere Reserves
VIDEOS
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
by Faith Morgan, Community Solutions
Cuba's Coral Reefs with Dr. David Guggenheim
on Sixty Minutes with Anderson Cooper
Cuba, Wild Island of the Caribbena / Accidental Eden
("Nature" Video, PBS)
Urban Gardens in Havana
"Around the World in 80 Gardens", BBC
"Is Cuba the First, Large-scale Maker Society?"
by Kelly McCartney
Recommended Videos to Purchase:
!Salud!, a film on Cuba's health care system,
by MEDICC
Maestra, a film on Cuba's 1961 literacy campaign
by Catherine Murphy, The Literacy Project
AUDIO SLIDE SHOWS
Cuba Naturally,
by Steve Winter, National Geographic Society
The Birds of Cuba,
by Steve Zack, World Conservation Society
WEB SITES
Ocean Doctor/One Planet One Ocean, US-Cuba Project
by Dr. David Guggenheim
Pristine Cuban coral reef
BLOGS
La Vida Locavore Cuba Journal
by Jill Richardson, May 2010
Lives in Tandem: Journey from California to Cuba
by Pete Rasmussen and Kati Greaney, November 2010
Jill Dickenson, food writer, with Fernando Funes (right), Cuban organic agriculture pioneer, and local farmer
AUDIO BROADCASTS
Cuba and the U.S. Find Friendship and Hope in the Gulf of Mexico
by David Guggenheim, "The Ocean Doctor", WebTalkRadio.net, October 18, 2010
ARTICLES
General Environmental Articles
Journey to Cuba's Underwater Eden
by Rod Griffin, Environmental Defense Fund, 2012
Cuba Naturally
by Steve Winter, National Geographic, November 2003
Cuba Reefs: A Last Caribbean Refuge,
by Peter Benchley, National Geographic
The Nature of Cuba
by Eugene Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2003
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
by Megan Quinn, Community Solutions, 2005
Deep Cuba
by Chris Clarke and Bill Belleville, Earth Island Journal
Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo
NY Times December 2007
Why Cuba is the Only Nation to Achieve Sustainable Development
by Bharat Mansata, Eternal Bhoomi: For Earth Consciousness and
Sustainable Living, January 2010
Encyclopedia of Earth entry on Cuban Wetlands
Why Cuba's Sustainability is Not an Accident
by Rachel Cernansky, Treehugger Journal, April 2012
Cuba: Environmental Sustainability Discussed
by Dick Wood, Greenleft Journal
Cienaga de Zapata, largest wetlands in the Caribbean
Renewable Energy Articles
La Revolucion Energetica: Cuba's Energy Revolution
by Laurie Stone of SEI, Renewable Energy World.com
The Sol of Cuba
by Laurie Stone of SEI, Home Power, Oct/Nov 1996
Revolutionary Health Care
by Laurie Stone of SEI, Home Power, Aug/Sept 1998
Rural Cuban School with solar panels installed by Cuba Solar
Revolutionary Education
by Laurie Stone of SEI, Home Power, Dec 2001/Jan 2002
Teaching Cuba's Energy Revolution
by Laurie Stone, SEI, Solar Today, Jan/Feb 2009
Sustainable Agriculture Articles
La Via Campesina: the Campesino a Campesino Agroecology Movement of ANAP in Cuba
by Peter Rosset et al
Roots of Cuba's Agricultural Renascence, Part 1
Roots of Cuba's Agricultural Renascence Part 2
by Paul Gersper
Cuban Sustainability: The Effects of Economic Scarcity on Agriculture and Energy
by M. Dawn King, Lehigh University
Cuba's New Agricultural Revolution
by Laura Enriquez, Institute for Food and Development Policy, May 2000
Cultivating Havana: Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Years of Crisis
by Catherine Murphy, February 1999, Institute for Food and Development Policy
Havana Farmers' Market
The Greening of Cuba
by Peter Rosset, NACLA Report on the Americas 1994, Institute for Food and Development Policy
Cuba's "Johnny Appleseed": Scientist Honored for Organic Farming Initiatives,
April 20, 2010
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Cuban schoolchildren in school gardening program
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES OF CUBA
RESOURCES ON SOCIAL WELFARE IN CUBA
GENERAL RESOURCES ON CUBA AND US-LATIN AMERICA RELATIONS
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