by Cimino | 14 Aug 2011 | Rail with trail, Transport and climate action
Shweeb and/or rail-saving trail-with-rail Aotearoa must urgently re-invent its tourism model. Currently it is heavily dependent upon air travel, which will increasingly become cripplingly expensive thanks to peaked oil and user-pays for greenhouse gases. Aside from...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
It would have made for a perfect Mahurangi Club topic. In the event, the next first-Monday-of-the-month clashed with the date chosen by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development to hold a public meeting to present research to inform a Pakiri–Pūhoi visitor...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
The region was once called Mahurangi. Not the Mahurangi River—at the time of European settlement it was called Waihē. For Māori, Mahurangi was the fortified sea stack off Waiwera, and its immediate hinterland. For the want of pre-existing name for it, European...
by Cimino | 8 Aug 2011 | Local board
The Mahurangi Magazine agrees with the following priorities proposed in the draft Rodney Local Board Plan: General With one very specific exception, which is addressed in the next section, the Mahurangi Magazine generally supports the content of the draft Rodney Local...
by Cimino | 6 Aug 2011 | Mahurangi Action Plan on climate
It would be safer, to stick to the knitting. Despite its ever-increasing readership—3643 visits last month—there is no knowing what percentage of the Mahurangi Magazine’s visitors would prefer to not read about anthropogenic global warming and the imperative for...
by Cimino | 5 Aug 2011 | Cartoons, Local board
The draft Rodney Local Board Plan submission form begins with: I agree with the following priorities proposed in the draft local board plan: The difficulty is that, in the draft plan, seven priorities are listed. The first listed, for example, is: Priority One: Build...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2011 | Local board
It’s not that it’s a bad plan. That notwithstanding, most comments on the draft local board plan will be negative simply because it is human nature for folk to react strongly to things they disagree with. So it could be argued that by asking citizens to state the...
by Cimino | 26 Jul 2011 | Global democracy
It’s a dirty word amongst most Green supporters. But globalisation, of democracy, is essential if global climate action is to have the best chance of averting ruinous greenhouse gas concentrations. Back in 2003, Green Party Senator Bob Brown moved: That the Senate...
by Cimino | 20 Jul 2011 | Cartoons, Local board
The draft local board plan is mostly Mahurangi-friendly. Mahurangi is mentioned six times, and the Mahurangi Action Plan twice. Even Mahurangi River dredging gets mentioned, which is right and proper considering how well canvassed the need is, including being included...
by C V Powell | 14 Jul 2011 | Science
Every catchment issue is set to become more acute. Scientists and economists are warning us with increasing urgency of impending environmental and social calamities—damage, ozone depletion, and energy depletion caused by humanity’s excesses. Politicians seem to greet...