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ECO CUBA EXCHANGE July 6-10, 2009:
The 7th International Conference on the Environment and Sustainable Development

House Bill to legalize travel between US and Cuba Ask your representative to co-sponsor. March 7, 2009

President Obama should end the Cuban embargo By John Lear and Marisela Fleites-Lear, February 27, 2009

Some additional websites and articles on the Environment and Sustainable Development in Cuba:

BIODIVERSITY AND PROTECTED REGIONS

“Deep Cuba” by Chris Clarke and Bill Belleville, Earth Island Journal
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/deep_cuba/

“Cuba Naturally” by Steve Winter, National Geographic, November 2003,
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature4/index.html

The Nature of Cuba by Eugene Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2003
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The_Nature_of_Cuba.html


RENEWABLE ENERGY

Five Articles by Solar Energy International on Renewable Energy in Cuba
http://www.solarenergy.org/articles-workshops


SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

"Cuba's New Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of Food Crop Production in Contemporary Cuba," by Laura Enriquez, May 2000 http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/271

"Cultivating Havana: Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Years of Crisis,"
by Catherine Murphy, Feb 18, 1999 http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/273

"The Greening of Cuba," by Peter Rosset. ACLA Report on the Americas, 1994
http://www.interconnection.org/resources/cuba.htm


HEALTH CARE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE


URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

“The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
by Megan Quinn, Community Solutions, February 2006
http://globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657


EXAMPLES OF POTENTIAL US-CUBA SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION

http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/cubaproject/cubaproject.htm#IPR

To Protect the Gulf of Mexico: U.S.-Cuba Cooperation on Marine Conservation, International Policy Report by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett, December 2007 [PDF]

Facing the Storms Together: CIP convenes first U.S. - Cuba hurricane conference, International Policy Report by Wayne Smith and Jennifer Schuett, August 2007 [PDF]

 
     
 

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