by Cimino | 28 Aug 2011 | Motorway, Science
It would cost about 7% of the planned Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway. But rather than generate more greenhouse gases and trust to luck that its ministers will never have to face an international climate court, the government could fund an urgently needed and long overdue...
by Cimino | 24 Aug 2011 | MMP
There is nothing put at risk, bar the possible dashing of preconceptions. Such is the beauty of models; they allow scenarios to be explored virtually, at very little cost—once the software has been written, the model can be run again and again with the only...
by Cimino | 22 Aug 2011 | Climate and neoliberalism
Dogma continues to dog civilisation. An example is the market-forces mantra that governments should resile from picking winners, because they invariably get it wrong. Such dogma flies in the face of the wealth of examples of governments getting it gloriously and...
by Cimino | 19 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
As visions go, it is less than galvanising. It presumably is not intended to form part of any promotional material for the area. Aside from being bland, the 58-word vision statement set out in the draft Pūhoi to Pakiri Region Visitor Strategy 2012–2017 could apply to...
by Cimino | 14 Aug 2011 | Rail with trail, Transport and climate action
Shweeb and/or rail-saving trail-with-rail Aotearoa must urgently re-invent its tourism model. Currently it is heavily dependent upon air travel, which will increasingly become cripplingly expensive thanks to peaked oil and user-pays for greenhouse gases. Aside from...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
It would have made for a perfect Mahurangi Club topic. In the event, the next first-Monday-of-the-month clashed with the date chosen by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development to hold a public meeting to present research to inform a Pakiri–Pūhoi visitor...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
The region was once called Mahurangi. Not the Mahurangi River—at the time of European settlement it was called Waihē. For Māori, Mahurangi was the fortified sea stack off Waiwera, and its immediate hinterland. For the want of pre-existing name for it, European...
by Cimino | 8 Aug 2011 | Local board
The Mahurangi Magazine agrees with the following priorities proposed in the draft Rodney Local Board Plan: General With one very specific exception, which is addressed in the next section, the Mahurangi Magazine generally supports the content of the draft Rodney Local...
by Cimino | 6 Aug 2011 | Mahurangi Action Plan on climate
It would be safer, to stick to the knitting. Despite its ever-increasing readership—3643 visits last month—there is no knowing what percentage of the Mahurangi Magazine’s visitors would prefer to not read about anthropogenic global warming and the imperative for...
