This page is about expressing and sharing my personal opinion and evolving view on almost everything. It does not reflect the views of any other agency or person I am or maybe associated with. As with any opinion it will from time to time change, given new information and experiences. The opinions expressed below are not meant to offend or cause harm to anyone, rather they are there to generate thinking and be a catalyst for positive change and human enlightenment.
Cleaner Planet means Cleaner Energy & Products 10th July 2011
It is natural for people to thrive when they live in a clean and healthy environment (it’s essential to life actually). Some businesses have for too long got away with producing products and energy without paying for the real cost to our environment (e.g. water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, diversity destruction through habitat pollution, ocean pollution etc). The public (e.g. tax payers) should not be paying for this kind of business subsidy or welfare. People need to be given the choice about whether to purchase a product or consume energy knowing the full cost. Then as consumers we can make empowered and real choices about what we consume and why. It is no longer acceptable for business to hide and survive behind hidden government handouts (e.g. government pays for health costs associated with pollution, and paying for the environmental clean up after degradation has occurred, government paying for the welfare cost when unsustainable businesses are created and then fall over etc.).
I choose a sustainable environment, sustainable and renewable consumption, sustainable and renewable energy.
Who pays for this necessary structural change, polluters and people who consume in an unsustainable way.
Who wins, everyone through a clean and sustainable environment, and people who innovate and create the products that are renewable, using renewable energy.This creates a virtuous cycle of growing renewable consumption using renewable energy.
Thumbs up for a sustainable environment, sustainable;
renewable consumption, sustainable and renewable energy.
Ciprino,
I have been visiting the current candidate’s sites this morning prior to casting my Coastal Ward vote. I am not one who generally sticks my neck out or makes noise, although I do believe it is important to commend people who seem to be engaging in positive actions, in lieu of complaining about things that aren’t to ones liking.
It is refreshing to find a candidate that freely express’s their ‘potentially divisive’ opinions on their website, especially with regards to the above issue. I am no green hippy, but I do have the benefit of hind sight having moved here from Sydney more than a decade ago. Perth deserves better than copies of failed urban renewal models burrowed from the east, where often, the most important element, ‘People’, are omitted from the design. People are often forgotten in the pursuit of infrastructure for investors, resulting in fast appearing spaces that alienate. Many are a Jeffery Smart landscape in the real, he may well have produced a canvas of today’s common scene at Scarborough, where the investment in generic architectural ‘stuff’ came before a focus on providing the forum for food, drink, appropriately scaled shelter and the families and people that are quickly attracted by default.
My interpretation of your vision is to inject people into the coastal common space, thus injecting a vibrancy that naturally stimulates investment and organic, responsive place creation.
Being considerate of others is a trait I try to reinforce with my kids, and your views above seem to reflect such an approach to community existence. When the anti-carbon tax campaign appears on the TV, as it often seems to, I struggle to explain to my children why a portion of our community maintain the views expressed in it. The add is a dissertation on selfishness and instant gratification, with complete denial of Australia potentially leading the world in a new ethos and economy. We may not collectively be the biggest polluters, but individually we certainly have a bit to answer for.
Short sighted financial return seems to be a virus that is infecting our community whilst the mining boom continues. I trust that if candidates such as yourself are able to maintain your visions, coastal ward residents can realise and identify that the underlying simple things, such as hanging out in the afternoon beach breeze with a care free crowd, with a feed for the kids and maybe a cool drink, are easily attainable, and are far more important in life than property value appreciation, a carbon tax, or whether one can afford a wave rider this year……
Best of luck.