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Energy Descent Plans The Kinsale and Totnes Projects

Energy Descent Plans The Kinsale and Totnes Projects. Rob Hopkins Transition Town Totnes * Plymouth University * TransitionCulture.org. Initial Symptoms of Peak Oil Awareness (Post Petroleum Stress Disorder). Common Symptoms Include; Clammy Palms / Nausea Mild Palpitations

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Energy Descent Plans The Kinsale and Totnes Projects

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  1. Energy Descent Plans The Kinsale and Totnes Projects Rob Hopkins Transition Town Totnes * Plymouth University * TransitionCulture.org

  2. Initial Symptoms of Peak Oil Awareness(Post Petroleum Stress Disorder) • Common Symptoms Include; • Clammy Palms / Nausea • Mild Palpitations • A Sense of Bewilderment and Unreality • An Irrational Grasping at Unfeasible Solutions • Fear • Outbreaks of Nihilism / Survivalism. • Exuberant Optimism. • “I Always Told You So” Syndrome.

  3. My Own ‘Peak Oil Moment’: September 2004.

  4. Climax (post-modern cultural chaos) Techno-Fantasy Green-Tech Stability Energy & Resource Use Population Pollution Industrial Ascent (Modernism) Creative Descent (Permaculture) Earth stewardship Pre-industrial sustainable culture Atlantis Historical Time Future Time Baby Boom Agriculture 10.000yrs BP Industrial Revolution Great Grand Children Old Growth Forest

  5. The Story of the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan Available to download at www.transitionculture.org

  6. Step 1. Awareness Raising Talks, End of Suburbia screenings…

  7. Step 2. Open Space Community Think Tank

  8. Step 3. Engaging Existing Practioners. Step 4. Visioning and Backcasting.

  9. Action Plan - layout • Title (food, waste, etc…) • The Present • The Vision • Practical Steps 2005 – 2021 • Resources

  10. Some Suggestions from the Kinsale EDAP… • A Natural Health Partnership • Local economy • Research on local building materials • Permaculture courses in schools • Slow Food Town • Looking beyond Tourism • Energy Independence

  11. December ‘05 in Kinsale… Notice of Motion This council supports the efforts of the not-for-profit company “Transition Design” in its initiative to act as “Process Leaders” in Kinsale’s transition to a lower energy future and in developing the concept of a “Transition Town” i.e. a town making the transition from fossil-fuel dependency to a state of energy independence.

  12. Kinsale EDAP – sending up shoots.

  13. “Jessica Harrison led a lively discussion outlining the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan … a captivated audience participated in discussion on the possibility of such a plan in Bass Coast…” The South Gippsland Sentinel Times. 22nd August 2006.

  14. Transition Town Totnes The Next Step…

  15. Awareness Raising…Sept ’05 – Sept ‘06

  16. The Official Unleashing…September ‘06 “Maybe they will tell stories about what happened in Totnes. Maybe this evening will be something that is the beginning of one of those stories”. Dr Chris Johnstone – TTT Unleashing Sept ’06.

  17. Open Space Days.Food, Energy, Housing.

  18. Oral History Interviews..

  19. Learning from Totnes Past.1930’s… © Totnes Image Bank

  20. George Heath.A Powerdown Pioneer. © Totnes Image Bank

  21. Visiting Speakers…Sept – Dec ’06. Richard Heinberg Helena Norberg-Hodge Bob Flowerdew David Fleming

  22. Working with Business. December ’06. Oil Vulnerability Auditing Workshop with Simon Snowden of Liverpool University A pilot project in Totnes with three local businesses.

  23. Skilling Up for Powerdown.A 10 Week Evening Class. Covers; Peak Oil / Climate Change, Permaculture Principles, Food, Energy, Building and Housing, Woodlands, Water, Waste, Economics, The Psychology of Change, Energy Descent Planning…

  24. Transition Town TotnesSubgroups…. Up and Running Heart and Soul – the psychology of change / Medicine and Health / Arts / Food / Energy / Economics / Liaison with Local Government In formation; Education, Housing.

  25. Outcomes so Far…(after 4 months). • Solar Water Heater Challenge. • Local Food Directory • The Totnes Renewable Energy Supply Company (TRESCO) • Plantings of high cropping walnut and sweet chestnut varieties within town • ‘Seedy Sunday’ • Workshop with estate landowners.

  26. Other Transition Towns…an idea goes viral… • Transition Penwith. • Lewes • Stroud • Moretonhampstead • Falmouth • Lampeter • Bristol

  27. A Role for the Soil Association? • Support Transition Town food groups? • Develop an Energy Descent Plan for food and farming in the UK? • One Planet Agriculture: Handbook for Practical Action

  28. www.transitionculture.org www.transitiontowns.org/Totnes

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