Summary

Societal well-being can be improved by putting more time and energy into building community and developing organizational relationships across sectors, supply chains and nations. Overcoming the challenge of a food and energy crisis can be accomplished by focusing on transforming our societal systems (e.g. economic, social, education, healthcare, energy and food systems…etc) into ones that create an enabling environment for people to meet their fundamental needs while not simultaneously degrading the environment. We can learn from the microcosm of Cuba’s food and energy crisis and how they worked together to manage it.