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Recently the team at Zero Emissions Noosa was alerted to an inspiring young woman named Ashley Sinclair.
A former student of Noosa Pengari Stainer School, Ashly completed her major assessment in Year 12 tackling what she refers to as “eco anxiety”, writing and publishing a book named Earth and Us.
As a child growing up in a family of surfers, Ashley was encouraged to admire and respect nature, assuming everybody else also collected plastic and rubbish from beaches when they visited. Her family was modest but with subtle sustainable principles, shopping at op shops and farmers markets.
These principles instilled in Ashley made her acutely aware by the time of completing school of the overwhelming task of helping to reduce the efforts of climate change and the need for this to be done quickly.
“We think Noosa residents are ready to power up their community’s future with sustainable energy” said ZEN chair Anne Kennedy.
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