Mar 18
What nation is the most sustainable in the world? If you guessed Sweden or Denmark, you would be wrong. Instead, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has declared Cuba as the only country on the planet that is approaching sustainable development. Key to this designation is the island’s Revolución Energética, an energy conservation effort launched only two years ago…
This article brought to mind the Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Dennis Pantin, in which he proposed that the Caribbean could become a model of ecologically sustainable development for the world community.
The information presented in Laurie Guevera-Stone, which is based on comparative international data from the World Wildlife Fund, suggests that Cuba has made good progress in that direction. This could have useful lessons for the rest of the region. The Cuban programme utilizes “distributed generation, efficiency, education, energy solidarity and the gradual solarization of the country.”
Norman