Daily-ist: Monday

::Houston Institute for Culture presents Sustainable Living Films Screening:

Houston Institute for Culture presents two films on sustainable living, Saturday, April 21.

The first, The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, is a success story on a national scale. Cuba lost more than half its oil imports when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990.

Filmmakers Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy documented the changes that enabled the Cuban people to survive, including the transition from large farms and plantations, and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens.

The second film, Radically Simple, features engineer and author Jim Merkel as he presents his views on sustainable living in public settings and workshops at his home. His audiences are involved in making the choices needed for sustainable living.

Houston Institute for Culture promotes and supports education about the processes and impacts of history, family, religion, education, technology, media, arts, environment, business practices, economics, and other human devices and lifeways, and impacts to achieve greater cultural literacy in communities and innovative approaches to social change.

Projects and activities of Houston Institute for Culture include Camp Dos Cabezas, Digital Story Resource Center, Students for a Better Houston and Texas Community Advocate. To learn more about these and other projects, visit their website at http://houstonculture.org.

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tonight, April 21 | 7pm
Havens Center | 1827 W. Alabama
Free and Open to the Public

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