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EDAPT AND THRIVEAn Energy Descent Action Plan for
Leamington
Proposed Outline v1 June 2012
EDAPT AND THRIVE - Contents• Peak oil, climate change and
waste – the context for everyone
• Scenarios for the future• Designing a more resilient
future – a process from Permaculture
• Survey: the geography, history and economy of Leamington
• Learning from history• The future we want and
principles to get there
• Food– Trees
• Energy• Local democracy• Clean water• Homes
– Appliances• Transport• Health• Economy• Culture• Knowledge• Resources
Peak oil, climate change and waste – the context for everyone
• Peak oil
• Climate change
• Throw-away society
• Rethinking economics
Scenarios for the future
• Techno Explosion – where new forms of technology not only replace oil but set us free from other constraints, such as living on just one planet.
• Techno Stability is where something/s replace fossil fuel, and we move to a new stability without any terrible upheaval.
• Energy Descent is where nothing can replace oil and we manage the decline in energy use in a more or less peaceable way.
• Collapse – ‘Mad Max’. Not good.
We can’t plan the first two – they depend on ‘them’ ‘doing something’ – and the last is the absence of a plan.
Scenarios we can plan for
• Brown Tech
• Green Tech
• Earth Stewardship
• Lifeboats
(from David Holmgren Future Scenarios)
Designing a more resilient future – a process from Permaculture
• Basic principles of Permaculture
• Concept of no waste
• Permaculture design process – start from needs & goals and understanding what you have, before getting into design itself
Designing a more resilient future – a process from Permaculture
• Survey
• Analyse
• Design
• Implement
• Maintain
• Evaluate
• Tweak
Survey: the geography, history and economy of Leamington
• Geography – geology, climate, land
• Brief history from village to town to 21st c
• Economy – tourism, market, car industry, games software
Learning from history
• Oral histories
• World War II
• 1800
• Middle Ages
• 14th Century
• Dark Ages
• Collapse of Roman Empire
• Neolithic
The future we want and principles to get there
• Basic requirements – food, shelter, work, trade, community, freedom
• Transition & Permaculture principles
Food
• Local food
• Involvement & self-sufficiency
– Models of ‘Dig for Victory’, Cuba
• Allotments
• Community Supported Agriculture
• Tradable food – what are we good at growing locally?
Box in Food - Trees
• The role of trees in future
– Food
– Materials
Energy
• Insulation and minimising energy use
• Renewable resources: wood, wind, water, solar power
• Human and animal power
Local democracy
• No return to feudalism!
• Vision of true democracy
• Issue of land ownership
• Values
– Supporting the infirm (or less firm)
– Migrants and refugees
– etc
Clean water
• Rainfall predictions for Leamington
• Water conservation/ low water usage
• Rainwater capture
• Renewable and low energy water treatment
• Making use of urine and manure
• Reuse of waste water – low energy waste water treatment
Homes
• Insulation, as above – reduce energy needed for heating
• Renewable heating resources – burning wood & side products of food production
• Low energy building materials – making use of local materials
Box in Homes
• Labour saving devices in the home
– no return to hand washing?
Transport
• Moving people – shortening the distances we travel
• Moving goods – local where possible
• ‘Right side of the line’ for longer distance freight
– Canal boats and long trains
– Large container ships between countries – but
Leamington not on coast so dependent on other
means as well
Health
• Oil and pharmaceuticals
• Public health – remembering what we’ve learned (eg clean water, aseptic surgery)
• Low energy drugs – from nature
• The problem of antibiotics
Economy
• Supply chain and maintenance – keeping going the goods we have
• ‘Traditional skills’
• Labour of hand and mind – return to Clause 4!
Culture
• Local arts
• Art that enhances communities
• Low energy textiles –
– Clothes as more than just covering
Knowledge
• How not to forget
• Education
• The future of the internet?
Resources
• Tools
• Groups
• Books
• Films
• Websites
Resources
• Ideas from Transition Sydney & EDAP workshop
• Scenarios from David Holmgren
• History from Birkbeck
• Maintenance and supply chain influenced by PB