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2/17 Alternative Energy and Agriculture in Cuba
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Tue Feb 12 14:55:34 2002
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Hopefully it will still be legal to TALK about Cuba, if not
to have any students from there...
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:13:25 -0500
From: Charlie Welch <cwelch@igc.org>
To: July 26th Coalition <july26@world.std.com>
Subject: 2/17 Alternative Energy and Agriculture in Cuba
TecsChange Presents (Co-sponsord by the July 26th Coalition)
Alternative Energy and Agriculture in Cuba
Featuring
Victor Bruno Henríquez Pérez
Vice President , Cuban Physics Society, section on renewable and
alternative energies. Henriquez is a founding member of CubaSolar, a
Cuban NGO where 400 scientists work on expanding electricity
production.
CubaSolar has installed solar panels on more than 300 clinics in
Cuba's remote mountainous region.
Henriquez is also the Editor of Energia y Tu, a Cuban popular magazine
focusing on the dissemination of renewable energy information.
Maria Caridad Cruz
Urban Agriculture Program, Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and
Man
Sunday Feb. 17th
7-9 PM
At our offices at 83 Highland Street, Roxbury
From Mass. Ave in Boston, head South on Tremont St. (away from town).
About a mile down Tremont Street, you will see an electric sign for
Roxbury Community College. Go one more block and take the left onto
Cedar St. Go up the hill two blocks to Highland St. We are on the
corner of Highland and Cedar Streets.
see www.tecschange.org for more elaborate directions or call 617
442-4456
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Our speakers and several other Cuban Scientists will be visiting the
Boston Area for the AAAS Meeting (American Association for the
Advancement of Science). They will make presentations at the AAAS
Meeting and some other locations (See below).
The first presentation will be part of the AAAS Annual Meeting in
Boston, Feb. 16-19.
On Sunday the 17th from 1:30-4PM, there will be a forum on "Science in
Cuba: Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration" (Boston Marriott Copley
Place / Suffolk Room, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA). This session
is intended to be an introduction of the scientific enterprise
in Cuba for an audience of U.S. scientists, donors, and policy makers,
with an emphasis on new opportunities for collaboration. Each Cuban
participant will present a brief summary of his/her research and academic
work and current interests, including an overview of relevant facilities and
an emphasis on collaborative opportunities. The event will be well
publicized, invitations will be sent to selected individuals from the Boston
area representing appropriate science, academic, donor, and policy
institutions.
Speakers for this panel will be:
-Sergio Pastrana (Foreign Secretary, Cuban Academy of Sciences)
-Victor Bruno Henríquez Pérez (Vice President , Cuban Physics Society,
section on renewable and alternative energies).
-Maria Caridad Cruz (Urban Agriculture Program, Antonio Nunez Jimenez
Foundation for Nature and Man)
-Roberto Castellanos (biotechnology expert, Ministry of Science,
Technology and Environment)
-Guadalupe Guzman (Instituto of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri")
-Fernando Funes (Pasture and Forage Research Institute and El Grupo de
Agricultura Organica) He will present on 2/19 only.
This panel will also be repeated on Feb. 19th (2-5pm) at Harvard Harvard
University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, on
February 19th 2-5pm (Large Conference Room, DRCLAS, Harvard University, 61
Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)
Another event at the AAAS will be on Monday the 18th at 9am-noon (room
to be announced). It is a symposium on "Sustainable Agriculture in the
Developing World: Innovative Examples".
The same event will be repeated on 2/19 (9-noon), at Tufts University, Cabot
Building, Rm #205, 170 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA, in
collaboration with Oxfam America. Besides the Cuban speakers M. Cruz and F.
Funes
(see above), additional speakers will be:
-Phrek Gypmantasiri (Multiple Cropping Center (MCC), Chiang Mai
University, Thailand)
-Abou Thiam (Regional Coordinator for Africa, Pesticide Action Network
(PAN), Senegal)
-Roberto A. Peiretti (Argentinean Producers Direct Seed Association and
Latin American
Confederation of Farmers for Sustainable Agricultural Systems (CAAPAS),
Argentina)
-Jules Pretty (Director of the Centre for Environment and Society,
University of Essex, UK)
-Saing Koma (Executive Director, Centre d'Etude et de Developpement
Agricole Cambodgien (CEDAC),
Cambodia)
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