by Cimino | 28 May 2015 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a lot of unwelcome attention. They are bearing the brunt of the Guardian’s otherwise well-meaning fossil-fuels divestment campaign. To paint Bill and Melinda Gates the face of divestment reluctance is a bit rich. For starters, unlike...
by Cimino | 21 May 2015 | Electoral enrolment
With just 37% of the votes, the Conservatives have grabbed 100% of the power. If New Zealanders needed a reminder of just how unfair the first-past-the-post system they dumped at the 1993 referendum is, then the United Kingdom’s general election result has just...
by Cimino | 15 May 2015 | Regional parks
Embolden parks chief by bussing in bridge supporters The Mahurangi Coastal Trail has been paid a considerable compliment. Friends of Regional Parks, in addition to making the coastal trail its flagship project, is making the concept the subject of its annual general...
by Cimino | 8 May 2015 | Climate brinksmanship
Climate inaction and gratuitous risk-taking adventure tourism From Mount Erebus to Carterton, Aotearoa has accumulated an appalling air-crash record. While pilot error was found to be the cause of the latter disaster, the country’s risk-taking tourism culture is...
by Cimino | 30 Apr 2015 | Agricultural emissions
Since Copenhagen, Aotearoa has had one, solitary, meaningful climate action policy. Amid the recriminations that followed the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, scant attention, much less credit, was given to the New Zealand delegates’ coup....
by Sir Peter Gluckman | 28 Apr 2015 | Agricultural emissions
PM’s science advisor on need for Aotearoa to both delay and adapt to a warming world Professor Sir Peter Gluckman opening the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Conference Palmerston North 28 April 2015 While many would prefer not to have to address...
by Cimino | 22 Apr 2015 | Cartoons, Regional parks
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Guardian is throwing everything at it. Well, nearly everything. While its ‘Keep it in the ground’ campaign is all over its environment section, there is no trace, on the newspaper’s main online masthead, of the millennial moral issue. Last...
by Cimino | 8 Apr 2015 | Regional parks
3 separate vs one magnificent Mahurangi Regional Park Waitākere Ranges Regional Park is more than 19 times the combined size of the three Mahurangi regional parks. Waitākere Ranges dwarfs the combined 900 hectares of the largely contiguous regional parks of Mahurangi,...
by Cimino | 3 Apr 2015 | Regional parks
Auckland Council is planning to push the regional parks 50th boat out. But rather than one grand event, or weekend, the celebrations will likely take the form of a season of events, rather like the way Warkworth’s 150th anniversary was celebrated. For that calendar of...
