by Cimino | 13 Sep 2013 | Local board
Before the meeting began, one of the local board members offered up a prayer: that the meeting might close by 5 pm. Service as a local body representative is famously thankless work. The work has been doubly thankless for the inaugural Auckland region local...
by Cimino | 31 Aug 2013 | Global climate party
Aotearoa’s major political parties share a broadly similar stance on anthropogenic global warming. In contrast, climate action in Australia and the United States is a deeply partisan business. The ‘invisible substance’ reference of Liberal Party leader and prime...
by Cimino | 21 Aug 2013 | Climate and neoliberalism
It happened somewhere between the mastery of fire a million and a half years ago, and today’s rampant exploitation of fossil fuel reserves. Practiced judiciously, and to jumpstart sustainable energy technologies, and by a sustainable population, the burning of a...
by Cimino | 4 Aug 2013 | Nuclear power
More mud, fewer oysters, and galloping foreshore erosion. This is the forlorn future faced by the Mahurangi Harbour. Just how muddy, how few oysters or fish, and how quickly higher and higher tides carve into soft unprotected shorelines depends largely upon how long...
by Cimino | 27 Jul 2013 | Climate strategy
Can’t afford to solve one problem at a time When the Alpine Fault goes, it will probably take Wellington with it. Wellington, now Aotearoa’s second largest city, is staring down the barrel of the Alpine Fault, which is primed and due to jump eight metres horizontally...
by Cimino | 26 Jun 2013 | Media missing in climate action
4 or 40 years late climate thrust to front page George Monbiot declared 28 August 2012 as the day world went mad. Writing on the following day, the Guardian’s respected environmental journalist asked readers to remember that date. It was the day that scientists...
by Paul Mees | 2010 | 19 Jun 2013 | Smart networks
‘Essentially a technical problem’ – City ’s technocrats rejected...
by Cimino | 4 Jun 2013 | Regional governance
September’s scheduled notification of the Auckland Unitary Plan is now in doubt. Despite that, it is possible that any further informal discussion of the draft plan will only be between Auckland Council and selected groups, and Mahurangi Action is not in that...
by Cimino | 26 May 2013 | Regional governance
First reason: It will be the 50th summer of Auckland’s coastal regional parks. The coastal parks commenced with the purchase of Wenderholm Regional Park on 31 March 1965, and its opening the following December. It was an immediate success as Aucklanders poured into...
by Cimino | 8 May 2013 | Regional governance, Sea-level rise
Len’s in danger of loosing it. As was all too apparent halfway through the term of Aotearoa’s first mayoral office to enjoy significant executive powers, Mayor Brown has bet the farm on a project for which he has little to show, come local body election year. Had...
