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Food
Enterprise
Transport
Energy Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee
2025
Connecting Dunbar
Energy Audit Team
BeGreen CIC
Dunbar Community Energy Co.
Dunbar Community Bakery
Aim To inspire/nurture/facilitate/manage our community’s transition to a resilient local economy, independent of fossil fuels.
Maximising edge
Community polytunnel, 10 families and village primary school
Apple days
Hundreds of acres of local orchards were grubbed up after WWII
Future community orchard?
Future allotment sites?
Food Relocalisation Conference October 2009
Dunbar Community Bakery Limited
Aiming to produce nutritious, wholesome bread from local wheat
Selling community shares£25,000 raised
2025How do we want this locality to be in 15 years time?
How are we going to get there?
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The 2025 Energy Descent Action
Planning ProcessWorking with East Lothian Council
and Reaching the Wider Community
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Behaviour Change
Disatisfaction with current situation
DxVxFxt > R
Vision of how things could be
First Steps to take us there, guidance/support from a trusted source
Change
Adaption –extreme weather events
50% cut in carbon pollution by 2025
Twin Challenges
Peak Oil
Vision needs to be grounded in the reality of these twin challenges
Peak Oil Climate Change
Local Resilience
Energy Descent/Powerdown
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Natural Resources
Human Resources
Resource Flows
Change over time
Vision need to be grounded in the reality of our place
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Building upon local capacityto facilitate, analyse, plan, monitor and evaluate change…
Local people are the experts
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Getting out and about to make it easy for people to map their views and ideas
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Community Mapping: Starting where people are at and where they want to be in the future
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Interviewing farmers
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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.
“How much of the food you eat is locally produced/grown
0 10
1. Very little is local in ASDA / Tesco’s
2. Not everything here.
3. Depends on price.
4. Hard to know.
1. Buy what I can local.
2. Buy Scottish whenever possible.
3. Grow veggies and some fruit in the summer.
4. Buy from Local Shops.
1. ‘Make’ supermarkets supply more local produce.
2. Better labeling of food to tell us where it is produced/ grown (not just ‘Scottish’ or ‘UK’ labels).
3. Better choice - more variety of what we can get locally.
4. Farmers markets on High Streets (like in Haddington).
Why not 10? Why not 0?
Ideas for the futureH-Form questionnaire
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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
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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
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People do want to make changes but…
• Disconnect between producers and consumers• Lack of infrastructure• Perverse incentives not to change
Cheap OilDriven by
SUSTAINING DUNBARThe end of cheap oil will require fundamental changes in the economy –incl. Food supply
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• Positive vision• Practical action
What works?
We need to start building an alternative food economy now and not wait for the existing structures to collapse
www.sustainingdunbar.org