Food feast
Any of those eventualities, if they could not be avoided, meant communities needed to be better prepared to look after each other.
Jarvis said many of the things Jones and members of RECAP were doing would help look after the planet as well as reducing demand for energy and other resources.
But he said people found all sorts of barriers to changing their behaviour, whether it was the cost, lack of knowledge, or thinking they did not have time.
Jarvis said people would not change their ways just because others told them it was the right thing, or if they were simply provided with large amounts of information.
Such approaches had largely resulted in ‘‘abject failure’’ in the past, he said.
‘‘There is little point in simply appealing to people’s better nature to install a low-flow shower head, for example, if there are no easy places to buy such devices and they are difficult to install.’’
The council wanted people to explain what it could do to make the sustainable choices the easy choices.
Some of Jones’ practices came from a family history of gardening and continuing to learn and share.
Indoors, he had taken free advice from eco design adviser Nelson Lebo — a service Jarvis said received 100 per cent positive feedback and would remain part of council’s strategy.
People may comment on the council’s draft domestic sustainability strategy until August 8. REGION: Levin has jumped into the food truck scene with both feet as roughly 2000 people rolled up for the town’s first food truck festival in the Te Takere carpark.