Voluntary Planning

Vision:
Manage with sustainability, lower pesticide use, voice of youth important, balance important; we can’t have unlimited growth, support for small innovative ideas, lots of parkland and green spaces, any production must be done with care to clean up leaving no mess. Sustainability and well protected areas. Encouraging private land holders to care for their land, too much clear cutting of forests, water protection for fish and clean wells, no uranium ever, look at these systems together and how they impact on each other. Care for our wildlife and their habitat.

Need for recreation spaces. Pay attention to community concerns.

Need for education about sustainability - reach youth.

Strengths:
Strength of our province’s natural resources are in their beauty and their value to animals, birds and humans. These industries are important, but they must be managed with consideration to resources. The strengths are the value we place on nature and our place in it, our stewardship of our province and the education of our children to take on the challenge.

Barriers and issues:
Too much clear cutting, not enough clean up after production. Profit too important not considering long term use of lands. Lack of regulation to all of these resources toward a sustainable future. The barriers are often the lack of concern that our government has for sustainability and the over concern with profit.

Community’s priorities:
Sustainability, green spaces, clean rivers, development but not over development (not greed). Uranium is too dangerous, there is enough mined in Canada that Nova Scotia does not need to mine it.

Guiding the health and sustainability:
Balance between development and sustainability, not overproduction, care for wildlife, birds and the animals and their space. The health of our population that needs clean water, air and environment, protection for our farm land not over use of pesticides, more support for organic farms.