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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