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DevonCAN Network Event

Devon CAN held a very successful Networking Event at The Belmont Centre in Exeter on Saturday 21st November. Climate Action, Transition and Sustainable Groups and individuals from all over Devon attended this all day event which was the first get together of Devon CAN groups since the launch of the Network at Embercombe Sustainable Community in March 2009.
The function of the day was for groups and individual members to meet, share ideas and help identify priority areas for Devon CAN to address over the next year.

Niall MacLeod, Chair, explained how the interim steering group had spent the last 7 months doing the important bureaucratic bit of giving Devon CAN a constitution, a financial base and initiating contact with local government. He said that having put down these important and necessary bureaucratic roots, the time was now ripe for DevonCAN to start doing what it was created to do- to connect, support, and represent groups interested in climate action, transition and sustainable living across Devon.
A large part of the day was given to an open space event where a wide range of topics suggested by those who attended were discussed with the task of suggesting how Devon CAN could best help in these areas. How can working together help better achieve the suggested goal?
A new Steering Group was formed from members attending the event, although non attendees who wish to offer their services are welcome to do so and be co-opted onto the group.
The Event finished on a high with the belief that Devon CAN's role was even more important now, given that evidence showed climate change was advancing more rapidly than thought, a funding stream for a new website and administrative support seemed to have been found, and that Local Government seemed to be keen to enter into dialogue in the near future.
Full details of the day will be posted on this website in the next week or two.
If you have any queries in the meanwhile please do not hesitate to contact the Steering Group on admin.devoncan@googlemail.com

Latest Newsletter: DevonCANNewsletterOct2009.pdf

Since putting out our first call for members a few weeks ago, groups have started to sign up. We know that there is plenty of interest out there as people have been contributing to this website and it is showing plenty of interest and enthusiasm.

Now is your opportunity to join DevonCAN itself - membership form: DevonCAN Membership application.doc

Your membership will provide you with the opportunity to link to your fellow groups and individuals whose passions lay with Climate Change issues. The network can provide the opportunity to keep up with the news of what other groups are doing and the exciting projects they are up to and how they went about setting them up. In addition, the network provides news of wider opportunities which individual groups may not get to hear about; whether that is funding or support and knowledge about what is happening elsewhere.

The more groups are signed up, the stronger and more effective we can be together.

Remember membership is free!

There are many groups and individuals across Devon interested in sustainability, transition and low carbon useage. Up until now these groups have been largely working in isolation with variable degrees of success in their campaigning. Devon Climate Action Network plans to help these groups in their work by:
1. facilitating the sharing of knowledge, skills and resources
2. helping the groups promote each others work
3. helping coordinate joint campaigns to reach the Devon population in a more effective manner
4. offering a coordinated lobbying of local government
We believe that through rapidly accelerating climate change and the reaching of peak oil, a collapse in world economic order as we know it is about to happen. By working together we believe we will be more effective at getting our message across.

The Devon CAN Network is your network. Please let us know what you as a group or as an individual would want the Network to do for you. Have you any skills or knowledge that you would like to share? Do you know of other individuals or groups who would like to be involved in the Network? Please spread the word. By working together we can work smarter. Time is short. We need to look at different ways of improving the delivery of our message. We believe that Devon CAN will be able to help promote the message to a different level. For further details contact; admin.devoncan@googlemail.com