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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Dick move Cheney perpetuates myth about China-Cuba oil partnership	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
During his 'drill, drill, drill' rant yesterday, Dick Cheney complained that Cuba and China are drilling for oil closer to the coast of Florida than American companies are currently allowed. It's become a common talking point for Republicans arguing that more areas should be opened to drilling -- but, reports McClatchy, it appears to be bogus. [N]o one can prove that the Chinese are drilling anywhere off Cuba's shoreline. The China-Cuba connection is 'akin to ...
Topics: Big Oil, Cuba, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Cuba's urban-ag miracle The U.S. media discover how food production works without access to cheap oil	Tom Philpott	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The story is legendary in peak-oil circles: Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union pulled the plug on Cuba's cheap-energy, cheap-food era. (See Bill McKibben's feature piece on the subject here.) No longer would the fading superpower accept the tiny island nation's sugar as payment for crude oil. From then on, only hard currency would do. It also halted food aid. In short order, gas and food prices spiked and people's living standards tumbled. Next, a widespread s ...
Topics: Cuba, agriculture, organic food, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Maybe They Can Use Cigars as Fuel Fidel Castro's resignation may boost biofuels in Cuba		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:16 PM on 20 Feb 2008 Fidel Castro's step down after 49 years as Cuba's leader may have implications for biofuels in the country. Castro was outspokenly critical of U.S. biofuel policy, and blocked a proposed expansion by ag giant Archer Daniels Midland into Cuba in the 1990s. But Fidel's brother Raul, who will assume leadership of Cuba, is a biofuels supporter. Industry analysts have projected th ...
Topics: biofuels, business, Cuba, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Castro resigns ... and Bush talks big	Katharine Wroth	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A year and a half after ceding Cuba's reins (and reign) to his brother Raul, Fidel Castro has apparently officially resigned after nearly 50 years at the helm. For me, the news brought to mind the eye-opening piece we ran by Erica Gies shortly after Castro first stepped down in 2006. It explores the green aspects of life in Cuba -- and inspired some passionate reader comments. Take a look. As for the latest development inspiring passionate comments, we get thi ...
Topics: climate, Cuba, politics (all these topics)

Real World: Havana Cuban conference addresses climate and development		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Real World: Havana Cuban conference addresses climate and development This week, an international conference of 800 brains is addressing climate change, environmental education, sustainable development, and other green topics -- in Cuba. Yes, offering further proof that the commies have the right idea, Cuba got credit from U.N. Environment Program Director Achim Steiner for solving its energy crisis while comm ...
Topics: climate, Cuba, energy, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Granma Muses Castro breaks editorial silence to berate U.S. over biofuels policy		29 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Granma Muses Castro breaks editorial silence to berate U.S. over biofuels policy Say you're a legendary communist leader sidelined by a secret illness. You're eager to break your months-long silence with an editorial, and you're looking for just the right topic. Do you choose ... your prognosis? Your island nation's health? Heck no. If you're Fidel Castro, you choose the U.S. infatuation with biofuels. An article printed toda ...
Topics: biofuels, Cuba, energy, news (all these topics)

High Fidelity What the West's only communist nation has done right	Erica Gies	09 Aug 2006	Soapbox
Reports that Fidel Castro turned over power to his brother Raul last week because of surgery for intestinal bleeding have brought a flashback to the Cold War, with reporters rushing to doodle prematurely on his grave and interview the vociferous hard-right Miami expat constituency that has helped dictate U.S.-Cuba policy for the last 47 years. But they're missing a vital part of the story. In Cuba, buyin ...
Topics: Cuba (all these topics)

Peak oil and politics	John McGrath	03 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Last week the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ran part one of a two-part series on how Cuba survived without oil after the fall of the Soviet Union. (Not technically true -- there was oil, just far too little of it.) The next part runs this Sunday and has to do with the redefinition of Cuban medicine in the post-oil world. It's all very fascinating, and it's produced by one of our national treasures, David Suzuki.But it's had me thinking once more about the likely res ...
Topics: Cuba, David Suzuki, oil, politics, Russia, TV, United States (all these topics)

Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out The U.S. has a years-old ban against offshore drilling in the Florida Straits, but it looks like the area might get drilled anyway -- by Cuba. The island country has rights to resources in half of the straits under a 1977 agreement, which President Bush renewed for two years in December. Inste ...
Topics: China, Cuba, Florida, India, mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics (all these topics)

McKibben on Cuba and organic farming The Soviet Union's collapse led to a revolution in Cuba's farming system	David Roberts	11 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Speaking of the latest issue of Harper's, it also contains a great piece by frequent Grist contributor Bill McKibben called "The Cuba Diet." (It's reprinted in full on this blog.) Dang, the dude can write. The piece begins as a sort of anthropological meander through Cuba's agricultural system. Turns out, when the Soviet Union fell, Cuba's heavily-subsidized, mechanized, chemical-soaked farm system collapsed. It was a huge and sudden ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Cuba, organic food (all these topics)

Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind We've got good news and bad news. Bad news first? OK: The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is the alleged site of government-sanctioned torture, practiced on suspects whose guilt is at best uncertain, likely to leave a permanent moral scar on the nation's soul. The good news? It's using renewab ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, politics, US Navy, wind power (all these topics)

Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions With the recent hardening of U.S. trade policy toward Cuba, analysts are now speculating that one thing could help ease the restrictions: Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Two Canadian companies have discovered oil in Cuba's waters off the Gulf of Mexico, announced President Fidel Castro in a Dec. 25 speech to parli ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Deserters Conference on Desertification Gains Little Ground		03 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Deserters Conference on Desertification Gains Little Ground The sixth international conference on desertification ended yesterday in Cuba with few results, save for a decision on how to finance efforts to slow the encroachment of arid regions and the loss of fertile lands. Leaders of 10 African and Caribbean nations attending the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification agreed to use the Global Environment Facility as their main fund ...
Topics: Cuba, desertification (all these topics)

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