by Cimino | 3 Nov 2013 | Committee
On 3 November 2013, the following were elected as the committee of Mahurangi Action Incorporated for 2013–2014: Cimino Cole (as secretary) editor incumbent Jim Dollimore biologist incumbent Hugh Gladwell lawyer incumbent Michael Gordon (as treasurer)...
by Cimino | 25 Oct 2013 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, MMP, Online, STV
Another local body election, and another uninformed swipe at STV. While it is probable that the at-large, single-transferable-vote, district health board elections are the single biggest reason only a third of Aucklanders returned their ballots, the explanations for...
by Cimino | 13 Sep 2013 | Local board
Before the meeting began, one of the local board members offered up a prayer: that the meeting might close by 5 pm. Service as a local body representative is famously thankless work. The work has been doubly thankless for the inaugural Auckland region local...
by Cimino | 31 Aug 2013 | Global climate party
Aotearoa’s major political parties share a broadly similar stance on anthropogenic global warming. In contrast, climate action in Australia and the United States is a deeply partisan business. The ‘invisible substance’ reference of Liberal Party leader and prime...
by Cimino | 21 Aug 2013 | Climate and neoliberalism
It happened somewhere between the mastery of fire a million and a half years ago, and today’s rampant exploitation of fossil fuel reserves. Practiced judiciously, and to jumpstart sustainable energy technologies, and by a sustainable population, the burning of a...
by Cimino | 4 Aug 2013 | Nuclear power
More mud, fewer oysters, and galloping foreshore erosion. This is the forlorn future faced by the Mahurangi Harbour. Just how muddy, how few oysters or fish, and how quickly higher and higher tides carve into soft unprotected shorelines depends largely upon how long...
by Cimino | 27 Jul 2013 | Climate strategy
Can’t afford to solve one problem at a time When the Alpine Fault goes, it will probably take Wellington with it. Wellington, now Aotearoa’s second largest city, is staring down the barrel of the Alpine Fault, which is primed and due to jump eight metres horizontally...
by Cimino | 26 Jun 2013 | Media missing in climate action
4 or 40 years late climate thrust to front page George Monbiot declared 28 August 2012 as the day world went mad. Writing on the following day, the Guardian’s respected environmental journalist asked readers to remember that date. It was the day that scientists...
by Paul Mees | 2010 | 19 Jun 2013 | Smart networks
‘Essentially a technical problem’ – City ’s technocrats rejected...
