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Dunbar Community Bakery. Enterprise. Food. 2025. Connecting Dunbar. Energy. Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Dunbar Community Energy Co. Aim To inspire/nurture/facilitate/manage our community’s transition to a resilient local economy, independent of fossil fuels.

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  1. Dunbar Community Bakery Enterprise Food 2025 Connecting Dunbar Energy Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee Dunbar Community Energy Co. Aim To inspire/nurture/facilitate/manage our community’s transition to a resilient local economy, independent of fossil fuels. Energy Audit Team BeGreen CIC Transport Maximising edge

  2. Community polytunnel, 10 families and village primary school

  3. Apple days

  4. Future community orchard? Hundreds of acres of local orchards were grubbed up after WWII

  5. Future allotment sites?

  6. Food Relocalisation Conference October 2009

  7. Dunbar Community Bakery Limited

  8. Aiming to produce nutritious, wholesome bread from local wheat

  9. Selling community shares £25,000 raised

  10. 2025 How do we want this locality to be in 15 years time? How are we going to get there?

  11. The 2025 Energy Descent Action Planning Process Working with East Lothian Council and Reaching the Wider Community

  12. Behaviour Change Disatisfactionwith current situation Vision of how things could be First Steps to take us there , guidance/support from a trusted source DxVxFxt > R Change

  13. Twin Challenges Adaption –extreme weather events 50% cut in carbon pollution by 2025 Peak Oil Vision needs to be grounded in the reality of these twin challenges

  14. Peak Oil Climate Change Energy Descent/Powerdown Local Resilience

  15. Natural Resources Human Resources Resource Flows Change over time Vision need to be grounded in the reality of our place

  16. Local people are the experts Building upon local capacity to facilitate, analyse, plan, monitor and evaluate change…

  17. Getting out and about to make it easy for people to map their views and ideas

  18. Community Mapping: Starting where people are at and where they want to be in the future

  19. Interviewing farmers

  20. Tracking who has a say so far by map and Tracking who has had a say by map and age gender and getting out to fill the gaps Getting out to fill the gaps.

  21. “How much of the food you eat is locally produced/grown Why not 0? Why not 10? Very little is local in ASDA / Tesco’s Not everything here. Depends on price. Hard to know. Buy what I can local. Buy Scottish whenever possible. Grow veggies and some fruit in the summer. Buy from Local Shops. 0 10 ‘Make’ supermarkets supply more local produce. Better labeling of food to tell us where it is produced/ grown (not just ‘Scottish’ or ‘UK’ labels). Better choice - more variety of what we can get locally. Farmers markets on High Streets (like in Haddington). Ideas for the future H-Form questionnaire

  22. Our findings so far:People do want to make changes but… Barriers to change: Consumers • Cost • Availability • Lack of time • Lack of access to land/allotments

  23. Our findings so far:People do want to make changes but… Barriers to change: Farmers • Cost • Availability • Lack of time • Lack of local infrastructure • Regulations

  24. Disconnect between producers and consumers • Lack of infrastructure • Perverse incentives not to change People do want to make changes but… Driven by Cheap Oil

  25. The end of cheap oil will require fundamental changes in the economy –incl. Food supply

  26. What works? • Positive vision • Practical action We need to start building an alternative food economy now and not wait for the existing structures to collapse

  27. www.sustainingdunbar.org

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