by Cimino | 5 Nov 2018 | Committee
Ahead of the 14 November annual general meeting, nine nominations have been received for Mahurangi Action Incorporated’s 2018–2019 committee: Tessa Berger (as president incumbent) entrepreneur, Rodney Local Board member, chair of Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust...
by Cimino | 30 Oct 2018 | Mussel action, Rivermouth ferry
Interim river-mouth scow and mussel restoration research At first blush, the roles would appear to be impossibly disparate. One role is as a testbed for a Pūhoi River Mouth reaction ferry. The other is as Mahurangi Action’s all-purpose scow, for everything from...
by Cimino | 21 Oct 2018 | Committee, Meetings and celebrations, Term of office
agm tagged to 14 November town-hall talk To save dragging some of the same folk out twice in one month, Mahurangi Action is tagging its annual general meeting to next month’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk. This is not to suggest that the society is permanently abandoning...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2018 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
As befits the stellar success of the last town-hall talk, before finances forced a two-month hiatus, the series is back to stay. August’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk, by Dr Andrew Jeffs, has spawned a five-year, potentially $1 million, research project aimed at slashing...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2018 | Regatta 2019
Mahurangi Cruising Club’s website is offline, pending a refit. Meantime, the Mahurangi Magazine, as it has since 2007, has the programme for the upcoming Mahurangi Regatta: 2019 Mahurangi Regatta Programme Mahurangi Regatta supporters Auckland CouncilBrowns Bay...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2018 | Climate mobilisation, Sea-level rise, Zero-carbon energy
Wasting storms of the grandparents When Dr James Hansen published Storms of My Grandchildren nine years ago this December, he lambasted governments for greenwashing while doing nothing meaningful to curtail fossil-fuel use. But despite, by that time, having already...
by Cimino | 5 Sep 2018 | Transport and climate action
Aucklanders once took an average of more than 400 public-transport trips per year. In 1945, with a sixth of the population, Aucklanders were taking nearly 120 million trips, compared to today’s paltry 90 million boardings. Not that all Aucklanders should be aspiring...
by Cimino | 30 Aug 2018 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth
Mahurangi Action’s feedback was lodged Friday afternoon, an hour or two ahead of the 5 pm Friday 7 September deadline. Although the user-editable pro forma originally at this location was only used for eight submissions, the feedback will help focus attention...
by Cimino | 23 Aug 2018 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
September’s town-hall talk is now cancelled, along possibly with the balance of this year’s. The September slot was pencilled in for the topic of paedophilia awareness—apparently paedophile networks operate locally—but no subsequent response was able to be elicited...
by Cimino | 16 Aug 2018 | Motorway, Open-ground, Rail with trail
One billion trees and bugger the science In 2004, $3 million over 5 years sounded like all Mahurangi’s Christmases had come at once. But a back-of-a-seed-packet calculation strongly suggested that the $3 million the former Auckland Regional Council had budgeted would...
