Totnes "Unleashes" it's Energy Descent Action Plan!
Transition Town Totnes has released it's EDAP (Energy Descent Action Plan), so now we have not only the Kinsale EDAP from 2006 as a template, but a more recent EDAP that will hopefully prove of great value to those initiatives like ours which will be doing an EDAP of our own. The Totnes EDAP can be read online for free or purchased: http://transitionculture.org/shop/totnes-edap/
Here's how Rob Hopkins blogged about it:
‘Transition in Action: Totnes and District 2030. An Energy Descent Plan’: available now!
20 months in the making, many hundreds of members of the local community involved, 230 households surveyed, contributions from local artists and schools, many oral histories carried out, and now the UK’s first comprehensive Energy Descent Action Plan is available. It is a sizeable and comprehensive document. Running to over 300 pages, printed in full colour A4, and beautifully designed, the Totnes & District EDAP is a remarkable achievement, a powerful and practical vision for the relocalisation and decarbonisation of one town and its surroundings.
The final plan has emerged from a year’s process of running visioning workshops, backcasting workshops, extensive talks to local groups, some not-done-before research such as ‘Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?’ and an extensive Energy Budget for the area to ascertain how much energy could be generated locally and oral history interviews. It suggests that the relocalisation of much of the economy will be central to the revival of the community’s economic fortunes, and will leave it happier, healthier and better connected.
A limited number of printed copies are being made available,, and can now be pre-ordered below. The entire contents of the Plan, plus additional material that didn’t make it into the printed version, are freely available online at the new Totnes EDAP website. We have created two levels of pricing. The first level makes the EDAP available at a discounted price plus postage and packing. The second is the full price plus p&p. Our hope is that organisations, Councils and libraries will pay the full price, as will anyone who wants to support the process that led to the creation of this plan. Your paying of the higher amount would be very much appreciated.
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And here's a transcript of Rob's public intro of the document:
Rob Hopkins Helps "Unleash" the Transition Town Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan, by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
...And so to the EDAP. I am so proud of this document. I am so proud of everyone who brought it into being. It has been an extraordinary process, one, like much of what we do in Transition, that we have had to make up on the hoof. Although it is called a Plan, I see it more and more as a story. After all, who are we to write a step-by-step plan? What we have created here is one story of how we could do this. It is rich with research and data, the facts and figures that we will need. More importantly, it tells a story that starts in the 1950s, the last time this community had less food, less energy, and was more localised. The stories we have drawn together from oral history interviews tell of a more resilient, local world, from which we can learn a great deal. The future may or may not turn out as we have described it, but this is an invitation to make this part of your story....
Again, the Totnes EDAP, which can be read online for free or purchased: http://transitionculture.org/shop/totnes-edap/
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