DDATT’s first Friday event features film on Cuba

    DEXTER — In light of recent events between the United States and Cuba, it might be interesting to review how Cuba was forced to quickly establish a sustainable economy, energy independence, and a revamped agriculture when the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.

    Because the Soviet Union was its major patron and supplied all its oil and subsidized most of its industry and much of its agriculture, the sudden loss of these things forced Cuba to immediately look for alternatives that had to be home grown. 
    DDATT (Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition) will be reprising a film for its First Friday Event in January that showed how Cuba dealt with this sudden drastic change by employing such things as widespread energy conservation and urban agriculture as well as making do with just what they had or could make themselves.
    The film begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2 at the Abbott Memorial Library (lower level meeting room) in Dexter.  This event is free to the public and is sponsored by the Library and DDATT.
    For more information call 924-3836, 277-4221 or email info@ddatt.org.