Discussion Notes from Conference
21st November 2007

2017

First cargo docks in the square!

Public spaces – edible housing green spaces /estate and children’s play grounds.
New model to housing and community.

Venice of the West

Tralee’s luas opens

Horses replace cars as main form of transport. Tralee now has five cars left.

Railway Track has been re-opened

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How we survived the energy Crisis

Insulate all L.A Houses

Cycle Taxi’s

Waiting list- bike repair classes

After dark curfew

Dev. Woodfield supply chain co-op supplies

Dev public transport infrastructure

People wear more clothing

Co-op farming

Trade 2nd car for family of bikes.

Car pooling /walk shorter journeys

School walking Bus

Turning off lights/appliances

Plan put in place by dept

Opening Cycle wax in old train track

Or a train line – public trams

Reopening train cargo

Eco friendly houses

Moyderwell eco dev

Easter arts festival celebrate the art of kerry and planet earths (Samhlaiocht)

Al Gore opens the kerry film festival

Allotment park opens in Austin Stacks Park groups
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Events thinking

5th ? of District Heating

Solar heating on all public building

All planning must include ???

Kerry County Council – first to introduce planning around ??

GAA sell all floodlights and play under natural light.
Tralee goes car free 2011
Pick a bike system
Seaweed
All houses now insulated through ingenious scheme

Herbal remedies make a big comeback
Allotment offers all taken up
Recycling co-op turns hug profit

1st vat of cider produced from town park orchards

Glass to replace carton milk
Itt new perma-culture masters degree

Students receive their awards
Tralee allotments pass 100 hectare mark
All schools finally self sufficient in their own food
Sales of shovels exceed (cars or Barbie) sales this Christmas
Three hour queues at petrol station
Ballyseedy woods comes to Tralee
Tesco manager stabbed for a loaf of bread
Visit islands of north kerry by boat
New sewerage system opens – one that works
Price of seaweed exceeds price of gold
2 year bail notice extended
Framers market opens every day
Farmers are growing food again
Further information further ??
Community environment and heat supply
Water (and Quality)
Community powerdown

Vision 2017

Vision 2017 Editor Kerry’s Eye

Prospered through the energy crisis

80% F and vegetables consumed grown basically

Tralee self sufficient in wood chip

Local eco bioenergy prospers

Wind/solar wave replaces the grid
Tralee – eco-tourism hub for the south

Public transport drivers pooled
Last old railway lines re opened

Children’s walking bus routes great success
Last private car leaves Tralee

Oil age museum draws crowds

Windmill in Blennerville
Kerry win all Ireland with Romanian full forward line

All roads in Tralee become cycle tracks

What’s Next

Powerdown Training
www.transitiontowns .org

engage business community
tourist sector
sei scheme

self reliant
not wait for outside help
look at opportunities

Development ground work to get others involved

L.A local Community –

Seminar - ? by local groups

Template/guidelines – develop tool kit (cultivate)

Screen film – 2008

Tralee town plan – input consultation period
Set up task force

Partnership Tralee/L.A – Set up forum, organisation template