What will Bedford look like in 2020?
In this weeks Times & Citizen i wrote an article about communities and their response to climate change and peak oil. In the article the all important question was posed;
“what will the Borough of Bedford look like in 2020 as a low carbon, sustainable and vibrant town?”
During 2010 Transition Bedford will be holding several events (the first will be at the Bunyan Museum on the 15th of May – sign up to the mailing list for details) that aim to engage local people around creating a vision for the future of Bedford. Based around the Energy Descent Action Planning method used by Transition groups across the globe, we aim to create a vision and the backcast to the present and create an action plan of how we can deliver the vision.
This vision is one that defies the doomsday predictions and goes beyond the “business as usual” head in the sand approach, nor is it beholden to the view that green tech will save us or a return to the cave man type pre-industrial future. This vision is a new aspirational future that we can all fall in love with. Chances are it will have a mix of all the previous visions with some added innovation and creativity but will be put together in such a way that we can improve our quality of life and that of our children as well supporting the quality of life of a diversity of species.
Please join the website by clicking the button on the right and add your comments here. Lets start creating a vision that we can fall so passionately in love with that we become emotionally bound to making it a reality.
