by Cimino | 17 Nov 2008 | Transport and climate action
Master mariner Melvyn Bowen warmed up his audience with a quiz. ‘Where am I?’ he asked of the dozen or so who turned out on Friday evening to hear from the commercial sail aficionado. The first image of the presentation was of Melvyn stood in a wheelhouse featuring a...
by Cimino | 12 Nov 2008 | Establishment trials
Key advice leading to the open-ground project came from a person with no interest in open-ground methods whatsoever. It began with a silver-bullet mission: Could harakeke, produced in bulk and planted at every opportunity, provide a nurse crop whereby seed-defecating...
by Cimino | 8 Nov 2008 | Warkworth
Planning Rodney looks like a plan. Much of the hydrological catchment is shown in a Kaipara–Mahurangi green buffer—the largest of three that would stretch from coast to coast. North of this green buffer is the northeastern mixed activity area, in a band that includes...
by Cimino | 7 Nov 2008 | Brainstorming breakfasts
Sex politics and spaceflight at brainstorming breakfast The ancient enjoinder—that guests should not discuss sex, politics or religion—should possibly be updated. I fear I have offended on more than one occasion by suggesting that spaceflight, henceforth, should be...
by Kim Morresey | 31 Oct 2008 | Action plan planning
As you may be aware, we recently held a community workshop on the future of the Mahurangi Action Plan. We had a great turnout, with lots of engaged, lively discussion. The focus of that evening was on what the next phase of Mahurangi Action Plan might look like,...
by Cimino | 29 Oct 2008 | Transport and climate action
After thousands of years powered by sail, commercial navigation switched over completely to fossil fuels. Since then, the revival of commercial sail has proved to be a curiously elusive goal. But the same reason electric cars are making a stampeding comeback—the...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 13 April 2014 Kim Morresey suggested a one-pager might be useful. Having attended the open-ground open day in Taupō, Ms Morresey, project leader of the Mahurangi Action Plan, was acutely aware that the concept of raising plants other than in containers is...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Raising plants open-ground can seem counterintuitive. It is easy to imagine that the best start in life a plant can have is to be lovingly raised in a pot in a nursery, and then carefully planted. But for foresters, raising plants in pots is downright …...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 25 March 2012 In February 2007, a $81.5 million fund was established to protect Lake Taupō. The strategy was to head off the sort of degradation that Rotorua has been fighting at enormous expense for three decades, and will probably be fighting for at least...
