by Cimino | 12 Jul 2010 | Sea-level rise
For most of its 4.5 billion years, Planet Earth has been ice-sheet-free. Ice ages, on the whole, have been kind to humanity. The last interglacial has heralded the era in which humans have prospered, and built civilisation after civilisation. But there’s a good reason...
by Cimino | 7 Jul 2010 | Cartoons
The Craig V Powell animated cartoon that advertised, for a little too long, the Mahurangi Magazine at Matakana Cinemas: Carbon Dioxide’s Colourless: That’ll take their minds off what fossil fuels are doing to the...
by Cimino | 4 Jul 2010 | Climate strategy, Nuclear power
The green stars of the show are set to be the Arabs and the Koreans. South Korea is spending a greater percentage of its economic recovery stimulus on green initiatives than any country in the world. And the United Arab Emirates is investing heavily in renewable...
by Cimino | 27 Jun 2010 | Motorway
Mahurangi’s first near miss was being by-passed by the Great North Road. To avoid being bogged down, early road builders preferred, where possible, keep to the high ground. By electing to run the highway along the Windy Ridge, the harbour was put just out of sight of...
by Cimino | 23 Jun 2010 | Action plan planning
Plan for Mahurangi a million miles away For the first time in more than 150 years, the Mahurangi is about to have a plan. But it won’t much resemble the last one, which was essentially a subdivision to form ‘Mahurangi Township’. Charles Heaphy vc supervised the...
by Cimino | 20 Jun 2010 | Cartoons, Climate disinformation
Fully one-third of the Oval Office speech is about America’s addiction to fossil fuels. But while that is undeniably courageous, given the unforgiving mood of the wounded United States electorate, the reasons that President Barack Obama gives for that addiction being...
by Cimino | 18 Jun 2010 | Action plan planning
It’s just what the heart surgeon ordered. Infrastructure for a healthy citizenry and a healthy tourist industry: The New Zealand Cycle Trail—that refreshing, if belated, large-scale antidote to the arrant nonsense pedalled for decades that Aotearoa had to have casinos...
by Cimino | 16 Jun 2010 | Action plan planning
Plan only draft but lookout for action The Mahurangi Action Plan is in action already. Despite being only in draft form, publication has boosted one of the projects proposed in the Mahurangi Action Plan. Mahurangi West farmer Mike Neil was catching up on some reading...
by Cimino | 10 Jun 2010 | Regional governance
The sloppy language slipped in at the beginning. Whereas its terms of reference diligently referred to the Auckland region, that key word was omitted from its very name: Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. Then the commissioners themselves were careless of the...
