Tipperary April 2009: Rethinking the Country Slides

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Rethinking the CountryThe Transition from Dependency to ResilienceMonday 27th April 2009 | Tipperary Institute, Thurles, North Tipperary

Cultivate Centre, Tipperary Institute,The Village,

Irish Rural Link and Carnegie Trust.


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OpeningTerry ONiaidh, North Tipperary County Council


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Towards Sustainable Rural CommunitiesCiaran Lynch - Head of Rural Development, Tipperary Institute


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Sustainable Rural

CommunitiesConvergence

April 2009


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A few preliminaries Sustaining communities and sustainable communities

Importance of values

All visions are underpinned by certain values

Some of my values are That the concept should include the social, economic and environmental

That equity and justice in a variety of contexts are important elements

Those to lose should be those that can afford it best

Importance of facts as well

The worlds resources are limited and becoming strained For some to gain some must lose

Concept will always be in motion

A model can include

Descriptors of the ideal

Processes

Conditions

Metrics

A model can help provide a focus for action and a tool for measurement and

evaluation


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A TI descriptor of a sustainable community

Shared vision and purpose

Value, protect and preserve itsnatural and built environment

Consciously seek to minimise its

use of scarce natural resourcesand its emissions of damagingmaterial to the environment

Create a high quality of life forall its members

Equitable access to servicesand facilities

A nurturing social context

A caring community in which theneeds of the marginalised andexcluded would be addressed

Welcoming and responsive tothose of all cultures and ethnicities

Provide employment to all itsmembers either in its own right or

in partnership with adjacentcommunities Involve itself in decisions and be

respected and included indecision-making by others

Structures in which authority andpower were shared Flexible and responsive Participate in developing

technologies Respond to its global as well as its

local responsibilities


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The CarnegiePetal Model


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The CarnegiePetal Model


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And to do.......????Develop a coherent vision for the rural

Provide leadership to culture change

Re-education both formal and informal

Highlight and promote the successfulEngage with the centre

Challenge the current paradigm

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From Vulnerability to Resilience

Peadar Kirby, UL

Rethinking the Country@Tipperary Institute

April 27th, 2009


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Introduction

Vulnerability has emerged as a concept to

analyse the social impacts of globalisation

This talk:

o Define what it meanso Examine how it points to the need to build resilience

o Discuss dimensions of resilience

o Suggest how we might move towards it


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Resilience I

Vulnerability points to clear policy prescription:

o Need to strengthen resilience

o Resilience is tantamount to an ability that is basedon entitlement, enfranchisment, empowerment andcapabilities (CEPAL, 2003: 25) Echoes Amartya Sens concern to move beyond a focus on

increasing incomes to strengthening capabilities

Focuses attention on

social arrangements and communityrelations such as medical coverage, public health care, school

education, law and order (Sen, 1999: 22-3)


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Resilience II

How to build resilience?:

o Of biosphere

o Of systems such as the financial, economic, political

o Of sub-systems such as welfare, labour, familyo Of counter-power collectivities such as parties, trade

unions, social movements

Two dimensions:o Design of policies

o Politics to implement them


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Politics of implementation

How can we build resilience?:o Personal actions: reduce our contribution to threats and strengthen our

coping mechanisms

Collective experiments like Cloghjordan ecovillage can offer models

o But also need public actions to invest in quality public services

Need a state more committed to developing resilience

Are such politics becoming more viable amid thesystemic crisis now upon us?:o Public authorities being forced to curb market freedoms: re-balancing of

power

o Challenge of moving to a no-growth economy to achieve ecological survival Urgent need for more public mobilisation and protest to change dominant

agenda: Beyond a Green New Deal


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Regional FoodHelen Lawrenson - Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Scotland


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Regional Food

The start of an experiment in Fife, Scotland

Helen Lawrenson

Falkland Centre for Stewardship

Rethinking the Country


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The Scottish Government has announced its intention tolegislate for an 80% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissionsby 2050- probably the most ambitious climate changeabatement programme in the world.

This is one that cannot possibly bereached without changingfundamentally the way we produce,process and distribute our food.


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The Fife Diet


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What do Fife Dieters eat?Dairy

Eggs

Cheese - one variety

Milk and Butter

Ice cream

Meat and Fish

Venison, pork, beef, chicken, sone fish

Fruit and Vegetables

Apples, pears, cherries, plums, rhubarb,strawberries, raspberrie

s. Cauliflower, kale, potatoes, turnips, leeks,broccoli, beetroot, spinach, carrots, brusselsprouts.

Other

Honey, Jam, barley, wheat and other cereal.

www.fifediet.co.uk


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The Fife Diet - a runaway success

Launched in October2007 by a small group offamilies and individuals

Ran for one year in itspure form

Built up a membership ofover 800 - a voluntary

network Re-launching as a Food

Co-Op in Spring 2009


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Aims of One Planet Food

1. To make a significant reduction in the greenhouse gas

emissions of Fife by reducing the carbon impact of ouragriculture, food retail, transportation and consumption.

2. To create research around the issues of food, culture,

localisation and climate change.

3. To create a platform of ideas for other regions andorganisations to work from and adapt.

4. To measure and capture the process.


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Planting a Seed A community bakery in

the village Transition Falkland

allotments

Bread matters movesto Falkland

Urban Allotments Flour Power!


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Tipperary Diet?


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Rural TransportVincent Nally - Irish Rural Link


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Given where we are at, what are

you already doing to buildresilience in your communities?

World Cafe


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Enterprise, Livelihoods and JobsBen Whelan - Cultivate and the Village


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The Power of One CommunityPaul Allen - Centre for Alternative Technologyand Zero Carbon Britain

Re-thinking the Country Conference 09


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zerocarbonireland

Based on

The power of one community!

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Climate security

Energy security

International security

Economic security

What are we aiming todeliver?


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Current targets are political targets

A need for evidence-based scenario development

Creating a common, coherent visionEndorsing & connecting actions across civil society

Identifying areas for urgent research

Charting a new terrain


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Climate Security - 350ppm


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Energy SecurityThere are currently 98 oil producing countries in the world, ofwhich 64 are thought to have passed their geologically imposedproduction peak, and of those 60 are in terminal production

decline. (David Strahan www.energybulletin.net)


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Internationalsecurity


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International framework:


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A technology roll-out scenariozerocarbonirelandRather than residing at the end of a

peaking, polluting pipeline, rural

communities can head their ownrenewable energy supply chain!


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Meter Irelandsdaily spend on

imported energyPut it on TV at

6pm every day!

- A cunning meter


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Reduce energy demand sector by sector: Built-environment

Industry

Transport

Agriculture & land use

(ZeroCarbonBritain identified a 50% overall reduction)


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Estimate Irelands strategic renewable energy

reserve

Wind, waves, tides, biomass, solar, geothermal..

Include only that harvestable with near-markettechnology

Calculate money this injects into the economy each

day

Identify infrastructure required to harvest this energy

Estimate jobs created in its construction & operation


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Turn theweatherinto

euros!

euro 1,348,000


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Electricity supply & demand


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Heat supply & demand


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Dealing with variability

Demand reduced by 50% Intelligent demand management

Generation distributed by region

Generation distributed by technology

Storage - V2G, flow batteries, pumped storage

International integration


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Integrated pan-EU scenario


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An economic stimulus package to harvestIrelands renewable resources will:

Dramatically improve balance of payments

Inject revenue into the economy every day

Create employment & stimulate the economy

Repay the taxpayer from the sale of energy generated

Future-proof against energy price shocks & blockades

The Saudi Arabia of green power


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As we get better at extracting energy through

increasing economies of scale and developments

in technology, the annual yield (and annual

income) increases every year, forever. Every island, coast, field, forest, hill top, south

facing roof can become an energy and economic

generator

Rural economies are at the heart of the action!

It just gets better & better


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Zero carbon retrofit & new buildSolar pv and solar thermal

Bio-fuels and CHP

Community wind projectsModal transport shifts, electric vehicles, cycling

Local food links

Local currencies & credit unions

Getting people talking

Getting people healthy, active and fit

Skilling-up

Tools & technologies for future-proofing rural areas


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www.cat.org.uk [email protected]

www.zerocarbonbritain.com


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The Power of One CommunitySeamus Hoyne - Tipperary Energy Agency and


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SERVE Project, 2008CONCERTO is co-funded by the European Commission

SERVE

Seamus HoyneProject Coordinator,Programme Specialist, Tipperary Institute

Convergence 27th April 2009

www.servecommunity.ie

SERVE Region


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SERVE Project, 2008CONCERTO is co-funded

by the European Commission

SERVE Region Total area: ~ 600 square

kilometres Total Pop: ~ 10,000

people Pop of Villages: ~ 4,770

people Largest energy consumer :

Transport (37%) Main Fuel : Oil (75%) % renewable energy: 1%

Total Energy; 6% HeatEnergy

Typical Dwelling BuildingEnergy Rating (BER): 210to 300 kWh/m2 /yr

Total No. of Dwelling(2006): 4,000 (60%constructed pre 1981)

Core Project Activities


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Core Project Activities

Upgrade Existing HousesReduce Energy Consumption by 30-40%

Eco-VillageBuild highly efficient new buildings

A new sustainable community

Measure what we do and prove results

Research

Plan for the future

Train people to build up skills

Upgrading Existing Houses


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From Old (65% efficiency)

To New (95% efficiency)

Upgrading Major Impacts


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Eco Village


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132 highly efficient houses

Demonstrating best practice

Range of building types

All heat from renewables

Biomass and Solar

District heating

Communal Services and Buildings

Building a community


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Seamus Hoyne

Project Co-ordinator

Programme Specialist,

Rural Development Dept

T: 0504 28114E: [email protected]

W: www.servecommunity.ie


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Seamus Hoyne

Project Co-ordinator

Programme Specialist,

Rural Development Dept

T: 0504 28114E: [email protected]

W: www.servecommunity.ie

Thank you.

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