Stephanie Wilson

I’m a gardener with the North Shore Community Garden Society and a volunteer garden mentor. I come from a long line of orchardists, silviculturists, and growers. I think it’s vital that knowledge of working with the land and working with everything else that also relies on the land continues to be shared and passed down to younger generations. I think community gardens are a fantastic way to get started, in addition to all of the benefits for local pollinators and crab spiders!

I’m a strong support of climate action movements like Global Climate Strike. I do my best to attend events and help out where I can. I think it’s particularly important to support youth movements because young people have the most to lose.

Public transit and walking are my primary means of transportation and I’m passionate about bringing better transit to North Vancouver to make it a realistic alternative for more people. I don’t own a car. I live in a small space, in part because it’s affordable and in part because it’s important to me to be mindful of my footprint on the earth.

I also recognize that I can’t solve climate change by sorting my recycling because climate change is driven by extractive industries like oil and gas companies. I strongly support initiatives like Sue Big Oil to hold these companies accountable.

Climate change does not affect everyone equally. I believe that resilience comes from recognizing systemic inequalities and working to address precarious or insufficient housing, food insecurity, insufficient income/income assistance, and biases/discrimination. For this reason, I want to build non-market and low-end-of-market housing, explore opportunities to provide more non-profit groceries, and significantly improve public transportation. I strongly support workers rights and advocate to other levels of government for more dignified income/disability assistance rates. While these actions on their own may not seem like climate action, they ensure that those who are most impacted by climate change aren't left behind as we navigate a changing world.

I very strongly support establishing a maximum temperature bylaw for multiunit buildings. I also support protections for outdoor workers during periods of extreme heat or poor air quality.

I would like to survey utilization of cooling and clean air centres to determine who may be missed. I think it's particularly important to ensure there are adequate cooling and clean air centres accessible by transit.

I support current initiatives like FireSmart, the Urban Tree Canopy Program, low-carbon building, and demolition waste reduction requirements. I am very much open to considering the species mix required in tree protection bylaws to ensure the future tree canopy is a strong as possible, i.e. species that will continue to thrive in hotter, drier weather.

I support stacking environmental protection measures into other projects, i.e. improving drainage and building in rain gardens when roadwork is already planned.