by Cimino | 8 May 2015 | Climate brinksmanship
Climate inaction and gratuitous risk-taking adventure tourism From Mount Erebus to Carterton, Aotearoa has accumulated an appalling air-crash record. While pilot error was found to be the cause of the latter disaster, the country’s risk-taking tourism culture is...
by Cimino | 30 Apr 2015 | Agricultural emissions
Since Copenhagen, Aotearoa has had one, solitary, meaningful climate action policy. Amid the recriminations that followed the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, scant attention, much less credit, was given to the New Zealand delegates’ coup....
by Sir Peter Gluckman | 28 Apr 2015 | Agricultural emissions
PM’s science advisor on need for Aotearoa to both delay and adapt to a warming world Professor Sir Peter Gluckman opening the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Conference Palmerston North 28 April 2015 While many would prefer not to have to address...
by Cimino | 22 Apr 2015 | Cartoons, Regional parks
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Guardian is throwing everything at it. Well, nearly everything. While its ‘Keep it in the ground’ campaign is all over its environment section, there is no trace, on the newspaper’s main online masthead, of the millennial moral issue. Last...
by Cimino | 8 Apr 2015 | Regional parks
3 separate vs one magnificent Mahurangi Regional Park Waitākere Ranges Regional Park is more than 19 times the combined size of the three Mahurangi regional parks. Waitākere Ranges dwarfs the combined 900 hectares of the largely contiguous regional parks of Mahurangi,...
by Cimino | 3 Apr 2015 | Regional parks
Auckland Council is planning to push the regional parks 50th boat out. But rather than one grand event, or weekend, the celebrations will likely take the form of a season of events, rather like the way Warkworth’s 150th anniversary was celebrated. For that calendar of...
by Cimino | 28 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
There were very good reasons for celebrating in 2016. Thirty-first of March is the 50th anniversary of the purchase of Wenderholm Regional Park, meaning that the main celebratory event could justifiably been held on Tuesday. But while there was a certain amount of...
by Cimino | 22 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
This week sees concrete step number three, with step four imminent. Concrete step one towards the Mahurangi Coastal Trail was last November, when Christine Fletcher’s parks, recreation and sport committee voted for work to proceed on the Te Muri Concept Plan. The...
by Cimino | 14 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
Second concrete step as coastal trail wins Friends Friends of Regional Parks is strictly a high-level, umbrella group. It was formed to ensure that the Auckland Regional Parks network survived and flourished under the new unified governance arrangements for the...
by Cimino | 6 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
Trust is the essential element in any successful collaboration. And it is never more so when that collaboration involves various community groups, elected council representatives, and council staff. Trust was clearly a key factor in Mahurangi Coastal Trail gaining its...
