Why are we doing an EDAP?

  • it offers a positive vision for the future
  • it offers a menu of different possible actions
  • it gets people involved in shaping their future
  • it builds communities
  • it is useful for those involved in TTL to focus
  • it is useful for the public to see the future through the lens of transition

What will it look like?

  • short and sweet
  • uncomplicated
  • emphasis on positive vision rather than catastrophic future scenarios
  • accessible language
  • in colour
  • including photos, cartoons, etc
  • plans relevant to everyday life
  • there may be different documents for different audiences such as for the groups, for the public, for local government, for businesses
  • there may be different presentations of the EDAP in different media, for example as a travelling exhibition, film, music
  • children's visions

what should be in the EDAP?

  • introduction to the context of peak oil and climate change
  • principles and aims of TTL
  • general facts and figures about Lewes, perhaps in map format
  • how people can get involved
  • transition tales, possibly also histories
  • the sections from the groups

How do you write your section?

This is what we suggest, drawing from the Transition Network's Primer.

  • the local area: build a local resource picture: this is information about our area relating to your group
  • the vision: create a vision for our area in 15-20 years time: what would Lewes look like beyond oil?
  • the steps: backcast from the vision to today: list out a timeline of milestones, activities, processes that need to be in place for the visions to be achieved - a list of your groups' activities to date and your ideas for projects may form the basis of this section

Below you will find a link to key approaches to energy descent planning.

  • The original assignment sheet for the students at Kinsale by Rob Hopkins which resulted in the creation of the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan.
  • The Energy Descent Action Plan Process from the Transition Network by Ben Brangwyn.
  • Some ideas for indicators of how resilient Lewes is and can be: Resilience Indicators ideas.
  • The original chapter 14 from Bill Mollison's Designers' Manual (one of the founders of permaculture) in which he sets out the community energy descent planning and lists the information we need to find out about the local area to build up a resource picture.

Get involved: contact one of the Group contacts on the Groups page