Tag: Cuba

  • Why Cuba's Sustainability is Not an Accident

    The government of Cuba deserves credit for integrating sustainability, very intentionally, into policy initiatives.

  • Cubans Use Much Less Energy to Produce a Much Higher Organic Food Yield

    While there are many factors when it comes to determining what contributes to human health and longevity, there is no debating that access to good quality food is a key ingredient. What is fascinating is that there is

  • Cuba Relies on Urban Gardens to Feed Hungry Populace

    Planet Ark/Reuters has a nice piece out of Havana about how urban gardens are filling a key void in food production after three hurricanes wiped out 30 percent of the country's farm crops. In Cuba, urban gardens have proliferated in vacant lots,

  • A 30th Birthday Party, The Permaculture Convergence

    Permaculture is a practice we’re rather partial to here at TreeHugger. It is a concept that defies simple definition, but has to do with designing human spaces, and particularly food production, so as to optimise lessons learnt from nature. Originally

  • Cuba Bans Turtle Hunt to Protect Species

    Recently, we noted that the end of the United States' economic embargo against Cuba could be bad news for the Caribbean nation's impressive successes in environmental protection. In the meantime, however, Cuba continues to enact cutting edge

  • Cuba's Environment Threatened as Embargo's End Looms

    The New York Times had a piece recently on what the end of the United States' economic embargo against Cuba could mean for the Caribbean nation's impressive successes in environmental protection. In a report last year, the World Wildlife Fund said that

  • U.S. Military to Use Cooking Oil to Fuel Guantanamo Base

    Following in these eco-savvy footsteps, the U.S.

  • VIDEO S&WFF;: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Last Day to Submit FIlms)

    When the Soviet collapse occurred in 1990 Cuba had an emergency transition to local organic agriculture, renewable energy, and large-scale mass transit. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (US/Cuba, 2006, Documentary, 53min by Community

  • Economic Crisis Kept Cubans Healthier and Biking

    Ask any Cuban who lived through the "special period" in the 1990s, and they will tell you that it was a terribly difficult time where everyone scrambled just to find enough to eat. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country went into a severe

  • Cuba Does Its Part in Billion Tree Campaign

    "Forests are natural and economically important

  • Building Green and Local in Cuba

    The Building and Social Housing Foundation this year chose a pioneering project in Cuba as a winner of its World Habitat Awards, which honor practical and innovative solutions to current housing needs and problems with a £10,000 prize. The project,

  • Castro Wades Into Climate Change Debate

    Though he has not been seen in public for over a year, Cuban leader Fidel Castro continues to excoriate President George W. Bush and U.S. policies from his sickbed via essays published in the Cuban press. In recent months, Castro's anti-U.S. tirades

  • The Fix Is In

    When does your electronic gear die? Usually when it's too expensive to fix, or is superseded by better, more efficient technology. Fact is, we probably throw electronics out too soon, especially when you have dudes like Lance Ulanoff giving tips on

  • Can't Buy Me Love (or a Long Life)

    TreeHugger was conceived with the intent of showcasing those cool products and services which could help the hesitant move toward a more sustainable lifestyle, without feeling they'd have to revert to hippydom. But from the outset we were very aware

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