by Cimino | 11 Jul 2012 | Global democracy
World government was the logical next step. Had Albert Einstein, Mohandas K Gandhi and J Robert Oppenheimer had their wish, the United Nations would have quickly transitioned to global government. Nations had plenty of incentive, given the dreadful dawning reality of...
by Cimino | 27 Jun 2012 | Transport and climate action
There are mandates, and mandates. The mandate fairly claimed by the newly created Auckland Council’s inaugural mayor, Len Brown, was for building the city rail link. However, since Len Brown’s election, a National-led government has been re-elected with, it would...
by Daniele Archibugi et al | 27 Jun 2012 | Global democracy
Daniele Archibugi Noam Chomsky Richard Falk David Held Fernando Iglesias Lucio Levi Giacomo Marramao George Monbiot Heikki Patomāki Mary Kaldor Saskia Sassen Richard Sennet Vandana Shiva Andy Strauss Politics lags behind the facts. We live in an era of deep...
by Hon David Cunliffe | 23 Jun 2012 | Climate and neoliberalism
Hon David Cunliffe Member of Parliament for New Lynn Labour Party economic development and associate finance spokesman Clean-tech cluster chairman Titirangi War Memorial Hall 23 June 2012 Since I became a father, everything I did before seems rather shallow and...
by Cimino | 8 Jun 2012 | Establishment trials
Centennial past time for 2nd royal commission on forestry Originally written for, and published in, the August 2012 edition of Indigena, the quarterly journal of the Indigenous Forest Section of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association There’s a strong argument for...
by Cimino | 31 May 2012 | Establishment trials
Twenty thousand down, and about as many again to go. This week field technician Michael Bergin remeasured two indigenous plants trial blocks in the Weiti catchment and started in on the trials in Sandspit Road. The trials are a world first in Aotearoa. They compare...
by Cimino | 20 May 2012 | Climate action economics
It is clearly not working. Oil still flows thickly and the Earth disgorges myriad other minerals in unprecedented abundance, yet the wheels have fallen off the global economy—unemployment and underemployment are at record highs. Global oil production, conventional and...
by Cimino | 14 May 2012 | Sea-level rise
Water finds its own level. Or at least that is the received, and generally entirely useful, wisdom. Water in a hose, for example, can make a useful builder’s level. However, as anyone who has actually attempted to use one will likely attest, the odd bubble of air in...
by Cimino | 8 May 2012 | MMP, STV
The primary motivation in producing the Mahurangi Magazine to champion the Mahurangi harbourscape. Just an hour’s bus ride away from the city centre—or it will be once the Mahurangi Coastal Trail is complete—the Mahurangi is many Aucklanders’ favourite bolthole, a...
by Cimino | 30 Apr 2012 | Climate mobilisation, Climate strategy
As a metaphor, the rms Titanic eclipses the First World War. In turn, World War One eclipses the 1918 Pandemic, which claimed possibly six times as many lives than ‘the war to end war’. The classic Titanic message is that the world’s largest ship, hyped as unsinkable,...
