by Cimino | 9 Jul 2011 | Climate action economics, Smart networks
The concept’s catching on like wildfire. Since Pure Advantage launched on Thursday evening, the number of registered supporters has shot to more than 1000—responding to the call: The greater our numbers, the greater our influence on business and Government. The...
by Dr James Hansen | 7 Jul 2011 | Science, Sea-level rise
Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change Paper 1 submitted for publication in Climate Change at the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects Proceedings of Milutin Milanković 130th Anniversary Symposium...
by Cimino | 4 Jul 2011 | Regional parks
The public transport needs of the Mahurangi, in most ways, are unremarkable. Warkworth and Mahurangi East have long needed both a local bus service as well as better connectivity to Auckland’s bus system. But what is unique about the Mahurangi is that it is...
by Cimino | 3 Jul 2011 | Moratorium on population
Dick Smith writes entirely eloquently. Which should mean that Dick Smith’s Population Crisis gets to be read by a usefully broad audience. It also helps that his just-published book, at 198 pages, is not too dauntingly lengthy, given the inherently daunting subject....
by Cimino | 29 Jun 2011 | MMP
It is easily overlooked. Aotearoa may enjoy exemplary proportional representation, but electorate representatives are still elected by the multiply flawed first-past-the-post system. Voters in last Saturday’s by-election were allowed to express only their first...
by Cimino | 16 Jun 2011 | Regional governance, Sea-level rise
North Carolina has gone one better. Aotearoa merely curtailed work on a national environmental standard on sea-level rise, in a calculatedly cynical strategy to oblige each local territorial authority to run its sea-level rise policies by a gauntlet of, typically,...
by Warwick Silvester | 10 Jun 2011 | Establishment trials
Introduced by Cimino Cole 10 June 2011 Corrected 26 June 2014 With the Mahurangi Action Plan ultimately calling for the planting of more than 10 million trees, coupled with the high cost of establishing indigenous species, the realisation soon dawned that, without a...
by Cimino | 4 Jun 2011 | MMP
Some’ll see it as fiddling while climate warms. And never mind reviewing the electoral system, many see democracy as inherently incapable of responding adequately to avert runaway global warming, and hanker for a benign dictator. Famously James Lovelock, father of the...
by Dick Smith | 30 May 2011 | Climate mobilisation, Moratorium on population
In a recent book, Terri Irwin makes this perceptive comment: In a hundred years, what difference is it going to make worrying about two acres of land. We need to focus on the real change that will make the world a better place for our children and grandchildren. That...
by Cimino | 30 May 2011 | Agricultural emissions
On the face of it, New Zealanders have a light carbon footprint. Even Dr James Hansen, in his open letter to the prime minister, says that: New Zealand contributes relatively little to carbon emissions that drive climate change. Per capita fossil fuel emissions from...
