Pathway to a Positive Future
Contact: Coming soon...
The Pathway to a Positive Future has replaced the EDAP group:
"The aim is to facilitate each TTL group in producing a simple and engaging vision of why they formed their group. A simplified description of each group’s Pathway to a Positive Future will provide a springboard for stories, ideas, engagement with other groups, engagement with schools and the wider community. This Pathway to a Positive Future might also be the starting for stimulating the Local Government Group and its necessary engagement with Councils and other Governmental groups.
All the hard work that many Groups have already produced cover the majority of layers that each group has talked about. From the Present situation to the Vision of a positive future, with a few outline Steps to get there. Then a look at the Priorities, Obstacles and Next Steps and the Resources that might be needed to achieve the vision. And finally a list of the Projects that each group is doing or dreaming to do. Less is more and more than two pages is probably too long!
The Pathway to a Positive Future will comprise one or more people from each TTL group; and there will be no separate group tasked with producing the Pathway. We are all in this together.
The intention is to create a springboard, or perhaps even a leap, towards a Pathway to a Positive Future where we can bring some fun back into the process that we all felt after the Visioning session in Jan 2008.
With best wishes
Older EDAP Group Page
The EDAP group exists to facilitate the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for Lewes.
Click here to see our what is an energy descent plan? page, which includes a link to the original Kinsale Energy Descent Plan - a must-read.
Click here for some ideas on the why, what and how of our EDAP.
Click here for the latest on Transition Town Totnes' EDAP: the Future Scenarios workshops.
Lewes Energy Descent Action Plan – pathway to a postitive future
The plan is...
- each group has a plan coordinator (someone who coordinates the writing of their group's section of the plan)
- groups will write the first draft of their sections of the plan by early April 2008 - ready for our next meeting Wednesday 9th April
- groups might start out with a vision of the future in their sector
- then brainstorm ideas together of acheivable, creative steps towards that vision
- the first draft could contain a statement about the current situation as well as the vision, and the steps to be taken to realise that vision
- the plan coordinators will go back to their groups, plans will be revised, then we meet again in May (Thursday 15th) and July (Friday 4th)
- in September (Monday 8th) we'll meet again, bring the plans together with the transition tales, then publish them within TTL and a few select others for comments
- we'll meet again in October (Tuesday 14th) and December (Wednesday 3rd) revising the plans in the light of comments and preparing for the launch of the plan
- in January 2009 we'll publish the first draft of the plan. Early January copies get sent to the printer. Late January the official launch of Transition Town Lewes's Energy Descent Action Plan: Pathway to a Positive Future!!!
Events
Click on the links below to find out more about our events and our Plan meetings.
TTL's open space day on energy descent planning
An introduction to permaculture with Pippa Johns
Setting the Compass - envisioning Lewes in 2025
The future of Lewes starts here! - the first meeting of TTL groups' plan coordinators
Notes from our meetings
October 2007: our first meeting where we set out the principles of how we work together in this group and discussed our aims.
November 07: where we discussed how to take the process of creating an energy decent plan further and planned a event to reflect on TTL's achievements so far and to build a vision of Lewes in the future.
January 08: mostly taken up with organising the Setting the Compass event.
January 08 again: we had a feedback session on the Setting the Compass event and set out the next steps for offering a facilitated process and structure for the groups' creation of their energy descent plans.
May 2008: catching up and looking forward, we discussed what the EDAP could like like and our next Plan meeting.
June 2008: we had feedback from our bid for funding, a meeting with Lewes Community Land Trust and discussed the EDAP process.
June 2008 again: more discussions on the EDAP process
July 2008: again the EDAP process!
Links
Click here to go to the Transition Network's primer for Transition Towns including a good section on energy descent plans.
Click here to go to our page of links to other transition towns's energy descent work: what is an energy descent plan?.
Get involved: contact one of the Group contacts on the Groups page
