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Name: Nicholas Palmer
Age: 54
Place of birth: Birmingham – resident in Jersey for 50 years
Address: Winterwood, Rue des Hamonets, St Lawrence.
Family: Married to Alma; two step children
Education: Hautlieu
Employment: Fulfillment industry for duration of campaign. Assistant researcher on book (about to be published), on climate change and risk assessment. Continued lobbying for alternatives to incineration
Hobbies/Interests: Hang gliding, sustainability, thinking, real economics, vegetable gardening, pets, food

Election platform:
I want: GST off basic living costs. A population cap. Jersey’s countryside/culture protected. Economic development, not growth. Support for small/medium local businesses. Incinerator alternatives. Diversification of agriculture. Tidal/wind power generation. Insulation/energy efficiency grants. Political honesty. Increased fairness.
I will “blog” online for feedback/consultation
I will promote sustainability issues forcefully. Imagine Jersey 2035’s cosy future is deceptive. Business as usual is not an option. The “big four” world threats will affect Jersey unless far reaching plans are made, both here and globally. Peak oil, climate change, financial instability and overpopulation cannot be airbrushed away – it’s not only Jersey’s future generations that will suffer – it’s our near future.

The UN’s recent GEO4 report announced that we are living 25% beyond the capacity of the Planet. Our environmental “spending” exceeds our “income” and we’re heading for the limits on our planetary credit card.
Jersey’s challenges are solvable by including the environment, social justice and wellbeing into the measuring instruments that ordinary economics uses. The setting up, administration and financial instruments of “ecological economics” will be a lucrative new direction for Jersey’s accounting and legal industry to take thus ensuring future employment for Jersey residents and safety for humanity in general.

Proposers: Mike Stentiford, Mike Liston, Maureen Bourniquel, Nigel Quérée, Judith Quérée, Deidre Mezbourian, Philip Perchard, Peter Surcouf, Rob Duhamel, and Daniel Wimberley.

Nomination speech:
Proposer Mike Stentiford said that Birmingham-born Nicholas Palmer had spent over 50 years living in Jersey. He said that Mr Palmer had shown deep passion and clear understanding of the natural world and that his views extended to both local and global issues. He described the candidate as a natural participant in all things green and said that in the 70s he was involved with Save the Whales before becoming involved with Friends of the Earth 20 years later, an organisation where he worked as a co-ordinator for eight years. He said that Mr Palmer was a campaigner for many environmental issues and that he had proposed alternatives to the proposed new incinerator, which would make waste treatment cleaner, greener and part of a more sustainable strategy. He added that Mr Palmer had contributed to an American book about global warming which was due to be published soon.

Contact details:
Tel: 863972