Rob Hopkins of TransitionCulture.org and Sonya Wallace of Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast (CASSC) tell GPM's Andi Hazelwood about creating an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) and dealing with the associated challenges.
Sonya Wallace is just getting started with her EDAP project for the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, Australia. She details how permaculture is a response to energy decline, tells of the new Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre, and explains the weaknesses that an EDAP would address for her region. Sonya's local council is positive about the EDAP project, but she talks about the difficulties in getting the community engaged in large scale responses when they're dealing with immediate and seemingly more pressing issues such as debt and transport poverty.
Learn more about Sonya's July 28 course, where students will develop the start of the first Sunshine Coast Energy Descent Action Plan.
Permaculture designer and instructor Rob Hopkins edited the successful Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan, which was conceived by his students at Kinsale Further Education College and approved by the Kinsale Town Council in Cork, Ireland. He talks about the Twelve Steps of Transition, creating an EDAP, and ways to deal with community disengagement. He indicates that often, community members are interested in many of the various aspects of relocalization but simply know it by different names.
You can download a copy of the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan and learn more about the visiting Rob Hopkins' website, TransitionCulture.org.
Stay tuned for an in-depth interview with Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns in the near future!
Choose any of the audio links below to listen to Sonya, Rob, or the complete feature.
Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan (complete audio) (length 20 min. 17 sec.): download, stream, read transcript
Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan: Sonya Wallace (length 8 min. 54 sec.): download, stream
Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan: Rob Hopkins (length 11 min. 23 sec.): download, stream
