by Cimino | 3 Nov 2020 | Climate disinformation, Te Muri Crossing, Term of office
Donald’s depraved indifference indiminishable at 100 000/day Ahead of itself, but by less than two months, the Mahurangi Magazine, 5 July, predicted: The depraved indifference of Donald Trump means that, come 5 September when New Zealanders begin flocking to...
by Kelsay Grovehills | 18 Oct 2020 | CHArt
schools art competition successfully piloted first with Snells Beach, now joined by Horizon, and Warkworth primary schools The Coastal Heritage Art Competition was launched in January of this year as a pilot programme, with the involvement of three primary schools in...
by CHArt artists | 18 Oct 2020 | CHArt
2020 Coastal Heritage Art Competition finalists from Horizon School, Snells Beach School, and Warkworth Primary School First Place: Ayla Reve, A seagull over the bay“A seagull in front of a golden sunset over the bay.” Age 10, Snells Beach School Second Place: Indiana...
by Cimino | 17 Oct 2020 | Events, Te Muri Crossing
Sir Peter is Te Muri Crossing cocktail party guest of honour Self-identifying as a Westie, Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, after 21 November, hopefully, will also identify as a Mahu Westie. Time was running out, and the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust was...
by Cimino | 5 Oct 2020 | Coastal trail, Regional parks
Regional parks review round-1 feedback deadline extended Round one of Auckland Council’s 10-year regional parks management plan review began 1 September. It was to end next Monday afternoon, close of play, but has been extended to 26 October. The 12 October date...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Direct democracy, Term of office
Act now and Aotearoa could own Democracy Day 2021 With Donald Trump’s best prospects now being immediate resignation and a prompt Mike Pence pardon, the United States’ flawed democracy might now survive long enough to face redemption. Shy seven weeks, it is 20 years...
by Cimino | 7 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Term of office
25% less democracy doesn’t equate to 25% less can-kicking Blamed for everything from the lack of climate-action mobilisation to the lack of a capital gains tax, to the failure to raise the retirement age, the three-year parliamentary term—it is persistently...
by Cimino | 14 Aug 2020 | Action plan, Climate mobilisation, Sea-level rise
$30 million Mahurangi action plan $3 million over 5 years seemed, for a moment there in 2004, as though all the Mahurangi Harbour’s Christmases had come at once. Even in today’s money, $9.06 million is more than twice the 2004 amount, but nor, back then, does...
by Cimino | 5 Jul 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Dredging
Depraved indifference to humanity and the home planet Aotearoa has demonstrated that democracy can work. Globally, however, covid-19 demonstrates the deadly degree to which governmental and intergovernmental governance, democratic or otherwise, is grossly...