by Cimino | 28 Jun 2015 | Climate and neoliberalism
Despite predictably shirking population, the pope’s heroic climate encyclical will surely ratchet up resolve for meaningful global action. Crucially, Pope Francis calls out cap and trade, which, until recently, few dared question, it being the crux of the sacrosanct,...
by Cimino | 22 Jun 2015 | Committee
Twenty-year-old Tessa Berger is Mahurangi Action’s best hope for the future. And that is good news for the Mahurangi, if the society’s achievements to date can be considered ‘good for the Mahurangi’. Major achievements include: causing Mahurangi Peninsula wastewater...
by Cimino | 22 Jun 2015 | Part 7 The Entrepreneurs
Jade River: A history of the Mahurangi Dr Ronald H Locker First published 2001; second edition 2001; online 2014— This online edition is a work in progress. Short contents About About the author Foreword to online edition Preface Acknowledgements Link with the...
by Cimino | 17 Jun 2015 | Membership and bequests
Beautiful bequeathing friends of the Mahurangi Possibly the only thing they shared was their love for the Mahurangi. One was a British-born immigrant and bomber navigator. The other, a 34th, or thereabouts, generation New Zealander, and Pukapuka postmistress. Wilfred...
by Cimino | 17 Jun 2015 | Part 7 The Entrepreneurs
Jade River: A history of the Mahurangi Dr Ronald H Locker First published 2001; second edition 2001; online 2014— This online edition is a work in progress. Short contents About About the author Foreword to online edition Preface Acknowledgements Link with the...
by Cimino | 14 Jun 2015 | Front matter
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014–. This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Front matter Foreword to online edition of history of the Mahurangi Cimino Cole That he wrote, and beautifully...
by Cimino | 10 Jun 2015 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, Online, Youth voting
It is possible to put a price on better democracy. At least to the extent that combining local and general elections would nearly halve the cost of holding them, and massively improve local-body turnout to boot. Extensive experience elsewhere suggests that if New...
by Cimino | 28 May 2015 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a lot of unwelcome attention. They are bearing the brunt of the Guardian’s otherwise well-meaning fossil-fuels divestment campaign. To paint Bill and Melinda Gates the face of divestment reluctance is a bit rich. For starters, unlike...
by Cimino | 21 May 2015 | Electoral enrolment
With just 37% of the votes, the Conservatives have grabbed 100% of the power. If New Zealanders needed a reminder of just how unfair the first-past-the-post system they dumped at the 1993 referendum is, then the United Kingdom’s general election result has just...
by Cimino | 15 May 2015 | Regional parks
Embolden parks chief by bussing in bridge supporters The Mahurangi Coastal Trail has been paid a considerable compliment. Friends of Regional Parks, in addition to making the coastal trail its flagship project, is making the concept the subject of its annual general...
