Notes on Meeting - 29th August 07 (Note taker John Bristow)
Attendance 17
Purpose and Outline
Share ideas on Step 2 of Transition Journey: Education and Awareness raising in B&H
Complete Accreditation with Transition Towns Network and Agree some Hub Roles
Progress and Outcome
1. Forming our Network Organisation, and Planning our Meetings
We completed our accreditation application and this has been sent to TT central office (see Pages on this Website)
We have 10 members of the Hub so far and have allocated some necessary roles (see Pages on this Website)
We are discussing what meetings we need to have and have suggested a whole network meeting for Wed 19th Sept 7.30 - 9.30 probably at Brighthelm Centre (venue to be confirmed), with social time after; and the Hub will probably meet on the 12th Sept (venue to be announced).
A Website design group is planning to meet too - but see the Discussion on our website.
We have some people offering to convene Function and Neighbourhood Groups. I will email them and suggest they set up a Discussion and a Page on the website, with examples of TT network groups do in the early stages, if they have not done so already (Energy and Business have, and notes form Buildings, Health, Education and Awareness, Transport, Peak Oil, Integrating with others are in Pages).
2. Learning about, and Planning, Education and Awareness Raising in line with Vision Development and Working with Other Groups and Organisations in the City: Steps 2 and 3
We discussed ideas in groups of 3 and these were recorded on Post-its and have been typed up. They are in a Discussion and will be consolidated with other reports on this from 25 July and 15 August meetings in Pages
A small group discussed this further while the Hub was meeting and this report is included in these Pages - linking to other community groups and organisations and developing a shared vision.
Function and Neighbourhood groups can feed into this from their perspectives in due course.
But meanwhile we are seeking input and guidance from TT network nationally. Some of us are visiting Totnes and hopefully someone from Totnes will attend one of our network meetings. We also want to network with other towns and cities to learn from what they did in the first stages of transition, and have links to their websites in ours.
We can then pool this knowledge and the ideas generated so far and take it further in a whole network meeting using Open Space format.
We are developing a "journey map" for the initial steps up to our launch conference ("unleashing") adapting the Transition journey steps to our local context, and linking key elements together: issues of Climate Change and Peak Oil and how they impact on key function/need areas (food, energy, buildings, transport, waste etc), using input from our Science and Technology group, solutions from TT network and around the world, analysis of B&H situation now (generally and by key function/baisc needs group) and developing a shared vision (first version) with other groups and organisations, with targets and measures of progress - and a planning process to go with it.to address climate change and peak oil and move towards more local resilience and self-reliance in meeting our basic needs (some re-localisation). In our accreditation application we stated our purpose as "providing education and support that mobilises community and personal responses to climate change and energy scarcity", in line with TT network's purpose.
We are in a learning and planning stage right now, it seems.
Notes on Meeting - 29th August 07
