EDAP on the Web
Transition in
Action
Totnes &
District 2009-2030
An Energy
Descent Plan
Its here the webversion text of Totnes & District Energy
Descent Action Plan. (This will be transfered to a dedicated website with
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Contents
Introduction
How to use this document
Executive Summary **
Part One
Telling a New
Story About Our Future
Introducing the
Wonder of the Oil Age
The Assumptions
that Underpin this Plan
The beginning of
the End of Cheap Fossil Fuels
The Impact we are
Having on the Climate
The End of the
Economic Growth Bubble
The Context of
this Plan
Recent UK
Government Policy
Nottingham City
Council’s Peal Oil Resolution
Resilience
Localisation
Introducing our
Survey
Part Two *
Creating a New
Story About Where We Go From Here
Why we Need New
Stories
Home: Where We
Start from. Totnes and District
Stories of Our
Recent Past
Setting the Scene
Food
Energy
Transport
Reflections
The Story of
Transition Town Totnes
Creating an
Energy Descent Action Plan
Step One:
Developing a Framework
Step Two:
Key Tools
Step Three:
Engage The Community
Step Four:
The Public Launch
Step Five:
PublicWorkshops
Step Six:
Backcasting on StrategicThemes
Step Seven:
Drafting the EDAP and Consultation
Step Eight:
Implementing the EDAP
Next Steps
Updating the EDAP
How to Contribute
Totnes: Past,
Present and Future – A Visual Journey
Part Three
Linked Pathways
for Energy Descent
A Vision of Totnes
and District in 2030
Joined-up Thinking
Key Challenges
Indicators - Key
Characteristics of a Resilient Community
A Forest Model of
Society **
Checking the
Balance – Principles of Natural Capital **
Linked Pathways
2009 – 2030
Contingency
Planning for Sudden Change
Themes and
Pathways for Energy Descent
Working With
Nature:
1. Food Security -
Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
2. Food Production
and Farming
Transition in
Action: TTT’s
Garden Share Scheme
Totnes and
District Local Food Guide
The Nut Tree
Planting Project
3. Health and
Wellbeing
Transition in
Action:
Totnes Healthy Futures project
4. Supporting
Biodiversity – The Web of Life *
5. Water Matters *
Creative
Energy Systems:
1. Energy Security
Transition in
Action: Totnes Renewable Energy Society (TRESOC)
2. Renewable
Energy Budget
3. Transportation
Transition in
Action: Totnes Rickshaw Company
4. Building and
Housing
Transition in
Action: The Atmos Project
Transition Homes
Totnes Sustainable
Construction Company
Resourcing
Localisation
1. Economics
and Livelihoods
Transition in
Action: The Totnes Pound
Engaging the
Totnes Business Community
Landscope at
Dartington
2. Consumption and
Waste *
Nurturing
Transition
1. Arts, Culture,
Media and Innovation
2. Inner
Transition *
3. Education,
Awareness and Skills for Transition
Transition in
Action: Transition Together
Transition Tales
Empowering
People
1. Local Governance *
2. Community
Matters *
3. Youth Issues *
Part Four
Appendices
Appendix A Assumptions
behind themed pathways **
Appendix B Building
& the DPD **
Appendix C Calculations
*
Appendix E The
Earth Charter **
Appendix G Groups
and Contacts page **
Appendix I Inspiration
*
Appendix M Making
the Energy Descent Action Plan **
Appendix Q Questionnaire
**
Appendix R Review
and feedback Form **
Appendix S Statistics
and Baseline Information **
Appendix V 2030
Visions *
Appendix W
Wondermentalist Cabaret **
Glosssary of
Terms
Index
Note:
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Edited version in print copy / full text only in web version
**
Included only in web version
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