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Hello there, I'm Julia Feltham
I work out of the Hub Halifax and I'm a social entrepreneur
Basically I make my living by trying to make Nova Scotia better
through business tools, which is a very illustrious pass-time
to me i think
there's so many ways to
use the things that we already have in Nova Scotia to make it better
uh... we are the the home of asset based community development
through the Cody movement and the Antigonish Movement
And I think sometimes we forget that and we go for silver bullet solutions
in public consultations if there was a lot of clay on the table and
if at the end of every consultation there was money for a community
to do an action program or project
of their choosing. Or if budgets were more participatory in Nova Scotia
it would make a huge difference
I also think that
having rural hubs would make a huge difference because
the amount of times, myself just traveling Nova Scotia
I accidentally polinate people who
have lived 20km away from each other their entire lives
and don't realize that they believe that
they're trying to build basically the same world, and think they're all by themselves
trying to build this eutopian Nova Scotia
and little do they know someone is working their butt off down the road
and didn't get a chance to share with each other. So spaces where people can be
pragmatic optimists
uh... and also try to make their living making their world better but also
building a better Nova Scotia
would make Nova Scotia a lot better, because we deserve to live our dreams, and love, and live here.