Tasman District Council Moutere-Waimea Ward candidate Julie Nevin wants resilience and sustainability to be at the forefront of local body decision making.
“There’s a movement among the communities that I’m part of … to ask every sector to get to carbon neutral, to stop the way that we are damaging our world,” Nevin said. “It seems like it’s something that needs to be in every decision that council makes. I understand that TDC has had that perspective in the room up to a point and I’d just like to progress that point.”
Nevin is part of Zero Carbon Nelson Tasman and a founding member of Extinction Rebellion Nelson, part of an international socio-political movement that uses non-violent direct action to persuade governments to act on climate change…
Source: Stuff, 14 August 2019
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