by Arnold R Turner CMG | 30 Apr 2013 | Regional parks
In the early 1960s, Mr F W O Jones, Auckland’s regional planning officer, was concerned at the rapid growth of urban development along Auckland’s coastline, which was preventing all but a favoured few from having access to good beaches. He recommended that large...
by Cimino | 27 Apr 2013 | Climate mobilisation
Dedicated to Rita Alice Elizabeth Wright 25 August 1916 – 26 April 2013 Amidst a rash of high-profile setbacks, he’s just played a blinder. What little remained of President Barack Obama’s gun control legislation has been unceremoniously buried by the gun...
by Cimino | 26 Mar 2013 | Moratorium on population
Corrected 30 March 2013 The Green Party doesn’t understand anthropogenic global warming: …we can expect droughts to be more extreme and strike more often if we don’t take global action. Never mind if—droughts will be more extreme and will strike more often, they are...
by Cimino | 17 Mar 2013 | Reviews
Ozzie Zehner’s magnum opus is mostly other than about the dirtiness of clean energy. Green Illusions: The dirty secrets of clean energy and future of environmentalism is more about the last few words of its subtitle—what the author terms: Future environmentalism....
by Cimino | 3 Mar 2013 | Regional parks
Mahurangi can best ease the region’s growing pains by not housing its share of Aucklanders. According to the introductory video on the new unitary plan website, Aucklanders want a high quality, more compact city, in the face of the expected 30-year growth rate of 600...
by Cimino | 26 Feb 2013 | Meetings and celebrations
Meeting Mahurangi Action Incorporated Committee Resolutions Resolutions unanimous unless otherwise noted Date Tuesday 26 February 2013 Time 5.30 pm Start Meeting opened at 5.37 pm Attending Cimino Cole, Michael Gordon, Mike Hanne and Burnette O’Connor...
by Cimino | 20 Feb 2013 | Regatta 2013, Results
Results of the 2013 Mahurangi Regatta, to hand: A Class Trophy Line honoursRanger 1stW Leslie Trophy Thelma 2ndRawene 3rdRanger 4thAchernar 5thPrize 6thMoana 7thIorangi 8thWaitangi 9thFrances 10thTawera Frostbites Times not recorded. Due to confusion emanating from...
by Cimino | 17 Feb 2013 | Farm-forestry trail
Corrected 24 February 2013 It may be because the landscape resembles a South Seas Lake District. Or it may simply be a universal urge, but locals have long dreamed and talked of creating a network of trails in the harbourscape of outstanding natural beauty that is the...
by Cimino | 6 Feb 2013 | Regatta 2013
The big band was back with sweet vengeance. Following a two-year hiatus initiated by an ex-tropical cyclone and prolonged, in 2012, by mediocre weather combined with a lack of funding, the Prohibition Big Band line-up on Saturday night was strongest, tightest and most...
by Cimino | 23 Jan 2013 | Media missing in climate action
For two decades it was the Great War. Then, with the outbreak of World War II, it became the First World War. As a descriptive title, First World War says a great deal more than Great War. It would be even more descriptive, but less eloquent, as the First...
