Group reports from Climate Response meeting

GROUP REPORTS FROM CLIMATE MEETING

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ENVIRONMENT

• Environmental monitoring and display
• Plant a few trees in your garden
• Measure community carbon footprint
• Native tree planting to stabilise hills
• WASTE
  Reduce plastic bottle use by putting drinking fountain in village and Rec ( Simon Shaw, Ginny Horrocks, Mel Johnston) – also on shared path ( this is part of project investigation. Pressure needs
  to be maintained to see whether it’s feasible)
• Eliminate all single use plastic bottles ( having water fountains might help with this)
• Repair shop
• Advocate for composting at Seaview waste plant
• Scale up community garden to promote education to more self-sufficient pathway
• Start food co-op for staples to reduce car trips ( some streets already have e.g. Kotari Rd buys organic eggs in bulk from Otaki
• Tool library
• Spread information on ( quite a few of these on Eastbourne.nz)
  • Why recycling items for collection need to be clean ( Have just had HCC leaflet on this?)
  • Where to take fruit & veg waste/ reduce wasted trips to Petone, supermarket etc
  • Where to dispose of stuff e.g. batteries
  • Remind of re-cycling options e.g. polystyrene
  • Services in Eastbourne
  • Not putting plastic bags in bins at bus stops as explode /move and contents spread onto
    beach
  • Education about waste in gutters – why does this matter? goes into streams etc.
  • Change diet – eat less meat and dairy
  • Describe living well locally???
  • Promote
  • Food sharing
  • Sharing waste bin space
  • Get a worm farm
  • Throw tea bags and coffee grounds onto garden ( actually many tea bags have plastic…)
  • Promote zero waste food programme – Love food: Not waste food
  • Vegan recipe
  • Collections
    • Green waste bins for compost and collected more frequently
    • Bottle cap & tetra pak local collection
    • Annual ( or more frequent) inorganic waste collection ( Caroline Drury & Helen Jorgensen)
    • E-waste collection centre ( Caroline Drury & Helen Jorgensen)
    • Annual ( or more frequent) “ leave at gate” enabling people to select & recycle
    • Re-cycling bins in parks
  • Schools –
    • RE-invigorate enviro-school programme at Muritai School, inspire parents, children, teachers to take action as a school ( Robyn Langlands, Frank Vickers, Suzanne McRobb to meet new principal, Stu Devenport)
    • Wellesley – invite to join this network. Invited and have joined ( Ginny Horrocks)

EDUCATION/ ADVOCACY /

• Create real time info for community ( Bruce Spedding has a brilliant digital notice board in the library )
• Workshops and / or support groups to help process emotions related to climate & biodiversity crisis
• Advocate for tougher standards on siting / location of new buildings
• Promote community resilience
• Meet local politicians and press for support for strong climate action
• Community Identity like Republic of Aramoana – T-shirts, stickers etc to raise profile

COMMUNICATION NETWORK / PUBLICITY

• Ask local businesses what they are doing and promote positives ( we did this with plastic
  bags)
• Locals share own efforts / ideas / tips on reducing carbon footprint
• Campaign for plastic free Eastbourne
• Use existing networks – schools, church, scouts, sports

TRANSPORT

• Advocate for better bus service ( Lyn Jowett to contact other communities )
• Investigate group purchase E-bikes, solar panels
• ELECTRIC DAY at Williams Park or other location as Williams Park in weekends may be busy
  so no space for more vehicles – locals with EVs and e-bikes show and tell with those keen to
  find out.
• Ride sharing – create app/ promote through FB/street car pooling/re-activate pick up points
• Encourage carless days ( once / twice ?? a week?)
• More peak ferry times
• Secure e-bike parking in village
• Bike repair stations
• Develop Burdan’s Gate area for walking and cycling

MESSAGE FRAMING – how to talk to people without antagonising

ADAPTATION

• Insurance – identify issues and options specific to Eastbourne
• Community strategy – long term for managed retreat/ find out about Makara project ( John Horrocks)
• Long term – what alternative access routes might be developed for Eastbourne and Bays
• HCC – storm water drains increasingly affected by rising sea level -more pumping stations will be needed.
• Wremo– inevitable floods/ isolation etc
• planning for critical evacuations
• personalised emergency plan based on location
• turn geographical isolation into positive community groups
• local emergency alerting & information system
• community lists so people can check on & support neighbours ( many set up for covid support)
• Shared Path – complete through Days Bay / continue to Burdan’s Gate

ACTION POINTS

• Philippa Barker – find out what happens to soft plastic ( check with 4 square)
• Bruce Spedding , Troy Baisden – communication network , digital and other
• Lyn Jowett – contact other communities campaigning for better bus transport
• Robin Langlands, Frank Vickers, Suzanne McRobb- contact Muritai School principal to inspire school community
• Ginny Horrocks, Simon Shaw, Mel Johnston – water fountains to refill drinking bottles
• Caroline Dury, Helen Jorgensen – inorganic collection, e-waste collection point( great news – Lions trialling an e-waste collection over this spring and summer )
• John Horrocks – investigate Makara community project to see whether framework would suit Eastbourne
• Ginny Horrocks – invite Wellesley to join network – done, they are enthusiastic. Great to have them