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Eco Cuba Archive
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Environmental/Sustainable Development Overview
| 2/8/03 | Eco Cuba Exchange launches US-Cuba "Sister Swamps" initiative on UN World Wetlands Day -- Eco Cuba Exchange, a Cuba program of Global Exchange, is pleased to announce the launching of its Sister Swamps Initiative (Pantanos Hermanos). The project will link conservation efforts between US and Cuban wetlands through a donation fund for material assistance for Cuban efforts, and through informational and people to people exchanges between the two countries.(Global Exchange press release) |
| 9/17/02 | Preparatory Document by Cuban NGO's to the UN Summit on Sustainable Development -- As a contribution to the debate at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Cuban NGOs and international NGOs based in Cuba have agreed on the present document, in which we analyse each of the agenda items to be debated and set out our position on these.(CubaNews) |
| 9/4/02 | Cuban Statement at the World Summit on Sustainable Development -- Statement by H.E. Mr. Felipe Perez Roque, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa(Euro-Cuba News) |
| 6/10/02 | Socialist Cuba Leads The Way In Environmental Protection -- A number of events were celebrated across the island to mark World Environment Day -- commemorated yesterday, June 5. At the main activity in San Antonio de los Baños, just outside of Havana, the island's Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment -- Rosa Elena Simeón -- affirmed that socialism has allowed Cuba to develop environmental protection programs that are ...(Radio Havana Cuba) |
| 5/31/02 |
Two Here Say: Open Cuba now -- Former Kentucky government leaders return from Cuba believing it's time to remove the trade embargo and normalize relations between the two nations. "It should be lifted tomorrow," one declares. "It's ridiculous and a shame every day that goes by without it been done." (The Henderson Gleaner) |
| 5/17/02 | Tulane Cancels Environmental Conference After Visa Denials -- NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tulane University canceled a conference on Cuba's environment after the State Department denied travel visas to eight participants. Cuban researchers and members of Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and its Ministry of Tourism were expected to be among the participants in the conference, which had been set to begin on Thursday. The State Department ...(NY Transfer News) |
| 2/15/01 |
Environmental Protection Comes to Cuba -- For many Americans the country of Cuba inspires a series of predictable images: a fatigues-clad Fidel Castro, fields of sugar, crumbling architectural treasures and out-of-date automobiles. But how many, when considering the country some 150 miles from the tip of Florida, would contemplate an energized, government-sponsored environmental awareness? (Inside Tulane) |
| 10/5/01 |
Twenty Issues for a Green Agenda -- A Cuban fable of African origin tells that one day, a tocoloro bird began to think about going in search of the end of the world. The first thing he did was go to the top of a hill and look, but his vision got lost in the distance and there was nothing. (Ethics and the Culture of Development Conference) |
| 12/1/00 |
Cuba's Environmental Strategy -- Both in spite of and because of the economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba has adopted an ecological perspective on development. Agriculture and other fields experienced major changes in direction. (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies) |
| 3/1997 |
A Patch of Green: Supporting Sustainable Development In Cuba -- Since the economic crisis that began in 1989, the Cuban government has been unable to provide enough of basic necessities. (Global Exchange) |
| 1997 |
Cuba's New Law of the Environment: An Introduction -- On July 11, 1997 Cuba adopted a "framework" environmental law and vested primary responsibility for its implementation with the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), an agency that was itself created only in 1994. (Tulane Institute for Environmental Law and Policy) |
| 1997 |
Cuba's Dilemma -- The Aerocaribe flight from Cancun to Havana was a far cry from the earlier American Airlines flight from Miami to Cancun. The aged plane rattled painfully as it hit the Cuban runway after just 40 minutes in the air, and the several dozen people who emerged onto the dark runway were clearly not tourists. (The Worldwatch Institute) |
| 11/1/92 |
Green Cuba -- Although suffering from both the 33-year-old U.S. trade embargo and the collapse of favorable trade relations, Cuba has bucked the global trend of poor countries eviscerating their environmental protections. (Virginia Warner Brodine) |
Sustainable Agriculture
| 1/28/02 |
Policy Think Tank Releases New Report on Cuba's Successful Organic Farms -- First time any country has made the transition from chemical-intensive farming to sustainable agriculture on a national scale. (Food First Institute) |
| 9/11/00 |
Community Gardens: Metropolitan Park Project -- With an eye on ecological sensitivity and sustainability, Cuba's urban farms produce crops not only for subsistence but as part of a national social and economic policy. (Oxfam Canada) |
| 2000 |
Cuban Organic Agriculture Exchange Program -- The multi-author report, Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, is largely written by Cuban experts on agricultural production, and represents the first time Cubans have made public the details of this enormous agricultural transformation. (Food First) |
| 7/13/00 |
Cuba Producing, Perhaps, 'Cleanest' Food in the World -- The Cuban revolutionary threat is back. In an innocuous-looking, unmarked building in the Miramar suburb of Havana technicians from Fidel Castro's communist government are training cadres from all over Latin America. (Earth Times) |
| 6/12/97 |
Cut off from global markets, Cuba invents a new agriculture -- In 1990, when trade with the socialist bloc collapsed, trade with most capitalist countries was still embargoed. Suddenly Cuba lost half its food supply and most of the fuel, fertilizer, feed, and pesticides it used to produce the other half. (Donella Meadows) |
| 1999 |
Cultivating Havana: Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Years of Crisis -- This 58-page report explains in detail the success of the urban agriculture movement in Havana as part of Cuba's national transformation to sustainable agriculture. With over 8,000 hectares of urban farms, 25,000 urban farmers, and hundreds of researchers and extension workers, Havana has become a world leader in urban agriculture. (Food First) |
| 10/7/99 |
Alternative Nobel Prize Goes to Cuban Group Promoting the Organic Revolution -- The Grupo de Agricultura Organica (GAO), the Cuban organic farming association, which has been at the forefront of the country's transition from industrial to organic agriculture, was named as winner of a major international prize--the Right Livelihood Award--commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' (Food First) |
| 8/22/96 |
ACF Food Gardener Education in Urban Havana, Cuba -- Urban Community Education and Training in Agriculture, Environment and Food Security. Environmental assessment: not undertaken - ecological sustainability is underlying philosophy and ultimate objective. (Australian Conservation Foundation) |
Renewable Energy
- Revolutionary Education
By Laurie Stone, Home Power Magazine
- One step closer to the sun
Granma International, September 5, 2001
- Computers for school children in rural mountain areas
By Lilliam Riera, Granma International, July 6, 2001
- Web Site of Cuba Solar
Cuban renewable energy NGO (Spanish)
- Renewable Energy Development in Cuba: Sustainability Responds to Economic Crisis
By Tom Lent, Roger Lippmann, Laurie Stone, Wendy Hawthorne, and Cameron Duncan, IEEE Science and Society Magazine, April 1997
- The 'Sol' of Cuba
By Laurie Stone, Home Power Magazine (PDF document 1.4 mb)
- Cuba Maintains Bike Priority
By David Mozer, International Bicycle Fund
- Pedaling With a Revolutionary Spirit
By Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times
- Revolutionary Health Care
Laurie Stone, Home Power
Natural and Traditional Medicine
- Alternative health care in Cuba
By Barbara Jamison, MyLifePath.com
- Qigong in Cuba
By Mark Johnson, Empty Vessel magazine
- Commitment to care: Nurses in Cuba offer a glimpse into the island republic's health system
By Carol Canter, NurseWeek.com
- With Drugs Scarce, Cuba Tries Natural Cures: Alternative-Medicine Clinics Provide Herbs and Homeopathic Remedies
By Serge F. Kovaleski, Washington Post Foreign Service
- Cuba to Develop Synthesis Between Conventional and Natural Medicine
By Andrew Webster, Globe and Mail
- Cuba: Natural Medicine Gains Wide Acceptance
By Patricia Grogg, Sacred Earth magazine
- Green Cuba
By Andrew Webster, Salon Magazine
- Yoga in Cuba
By Mary Pafford, U.S.-Cuba Yoga Exchange
- Dreaming with Two Feet on the Ground: Acupuncture in Cuba
By Harriet Beinfield, Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Journal
- Cuba's Tale: Global Survival Depends Upon What We Eat
Eco-Farm & Garden
Biodiversity
Statistical Studies and Maps
Birds and Frogs and Other Cuban Creatures
| 2/18/02 |
Cuban scientists study at sanctuary -- In an exchange of science between nations at odds, two Cuban scientists spent time sharing knowledge with ornithologists at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary during the weekend. (Republican Herald) |
Articles
- Cienaga de Zapata National Park: The Prodigious Land
By Alberto D. Perez, Granma International, August 28, 2001
- Natural History and Environmental Issues of Cuba
By Tod Frolking and Alan Stam, Dept of Biological Sciences, Capital University
- Conservation Initiatives in Cuba
By The Society for Conservation Biology
- Conservation and Development Strategy, National System of Protected Areas
By Antonio Perera Puga, Pedro Rosabal Gonzalez, and Arturo López
- Cuba, "Crown Jewel Of Caribbean Biodiversity," Threatened
By Environmental Defense
Urban Sustainability
Water Resources
| 2/8/03 | Eco Cuba Exchange launches US-Cuba "Sister Swamps" initiative on UN World Wetlands Day -- Eco Cuba Exchange, a Cuba program of Global Exchange, is pleased to announce the launching of its Sister Swamps Initiative (Pantanos Hermanos). The project will link conservation efforts between US and Cuban wetlands through a donation fund for material assistance for Cuban efforts, and through informational and people to people exchanges between the two countries.(Global Exchange press release) |
| 3/1/02 |
Emeralds of the Cauto (PDF 469kb) -- The reforestation project in the hardscrabble eastern province of Granma is proving to be a remarkably successful experiment in support of the region's environmental rehabilitation and economic and social progress. (Choices) |
| Spring 2000 |
Incremental Ecological Wastewater Treatment: The Havana Prototype -- In April 2000, a graduate student team from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington, led by professor Hilda Blanco, came to Havana to explore the possibility of siting an ecological wastewater treatment system in one of the city's neighborhoods. The three main goals of the study were to specify and site a prototype system, stimulate community participation regarding river health and wastewater, and develop a template that may be applied to other areas of the country and around the world. (Univeristy of Washington) |
Ecotourism
| 1/1/99 |
Ecotourism in Cuba -- One of Cuba's best-known ecotourism sites is Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve, a 50,000-acre swatch in the island's western province of Pinar del Rio. (Zoogoer) |
| 3/1/95 |
Cuba's Ecotourism -- Every day around this time of year, thousands of North Americans fill cruise ships and airplanes bound for the Caribbean and warm relief from winter. But they pass right by the closest and once popular destination, Cuba. (NPR: Living On Earth) |
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