Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Rethinking the
Cultivate Centre, City
Tipperary Conference
Institute,The
Irish Rural Link and Carnegie Trust.
Village, ‘09
04/27/09 2
A TI descriptor of a sustainable community
! Shared vision and purpose ! Welcoming and responsive to
! Value, protect and preserve its those of all cultures and ethnicities
natural and built environment ! Provide employment to all its
members either in its own right or
! Consciously seek to minimise its in partnership with adjacent
use of scarce natural resources communities
and its emissions of damaging
material to the environment ! Involve itself in decisions and be
respected and included in
! Create a high quality of life for decision-making by others
all its members ! Structures in which authority and
! Equitable access to services power were shared
and facilities ! Flexible and responsive
! A nurturing social context ! Participate in developing
! A caring community in which the technologies
needs of the marginalised and ! Respond to its global as well as its
excluded would be addressed local responsibilities
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The Carnegie
Petal Model
The Carnegie
Petal Model
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 successful
! Engage with the centre
! Challenge the current paradigm
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From Vulnerability to Resilience
Prof. Peadar Kirby - Limerick University
From Vulnerability to Resilience
Peadar Kirby, UL
Rethinking the Country@Tipperary Institute
April 27th, 2009
Introduction
• Definition:
Helen Lawrenson
Falkland Centre for Stewardship
Other
Honey, Jam, barley, wheat and other cereal.
www.fifediet.co.uk
The Fife Diet - a runaway success
• Launched in October
2007 by a small group of
families and individuals
• Ran for one year in its
‘pure form’
• Built up a membership of
over 800 - a voluntary
network
• Re-launching as a Food
Co-Op in Spring 2009
Aims of One Planet Food
1. To make a significant reduction in the greenhouse gas
emissions of Fife by reducing the carbon impact of our
agriculture, food retail, transportation and consumption.
zerocarbonireland
The power of one community!
Based on
What are we aiming to
deliver?
•Climate security
•Energy security
•International security
•Economic security
Charting a new terrain
• Current targets are ‘political targets’
•Meter Ireland’s
daily spend on
imported energy
•Put it on TV at
6pm every day!
Reduce energy demand sector by sector:
– Built-environment
– Industry
– Transport
– Agriculture & land use
! Turn the
weather
into
euros!
Electricity supply & demand
Heat supply & demand
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
Integrated pan-EU scenario
The Saudi Arabia of green power
! An economic stimulus package to harvest
Ireland’s renewable resources will:
– Dramatically improve balance of payments
Seamus Hoyne
Project Coordinator,
Programme Specialist, Tipperary Institute
Convergence – 27th April 2009
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Core Project Activities
! Upgrade Existing Houses
" Reduce Energy Consumption by 30-40%
! Eco-Village
" Buildhighly efficient new buildings
" A new sustainable community
! Research
" Plan for the future
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading Existing Houses
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading Existing Houses
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading Existing Houses
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading Existing Houses
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading Existing Houses
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Upgrading –Major Impacts
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Eco Village
132 highly efficient houses
Demonstrating best practice
Range of building types
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission
Thank you.
Questions?
Seamus Hoyne
Project Co-ordinator
Programme Specialist,
Rural Development Dept
T: 0504 28114
E: shoyne@tippinst.ie
W: www.servecommunity.ie
CONCERTO is co-funded
© SERVE Project, 2008
by the European Commission