Telling a New Story About our Future

This plan is different from the many Community and County Development Plans that appear regularly in our lives. It is based on a set of different, and we feel more realistic, assumptions. It assumes that we have reached a pivotal and historic moment in history, a time when we can afford to think big and to think beyond what one might call ‘business as usual’. The economy of Totnes and District is starting to feel the impacts of the global downturn, and the record oil prices of last summer hit the economy hard. What if those two trends turn out to be a permanent and growing feature of our everyday lives? What will it look like if the area takes proactive steps to live within its carbon balance, playing its part in avoiding runaway climate change? This section looks at the thinking that underpins this Plan.

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