by Cimino | 20 Jul 2010 | Motorway, Transport and climate action
The New Zealand Transport Agency must be thoroughly bemused. A community reacts in outrage to the prospect of being denied direct access to a proposed motorway, when it should be erupting in righteous indignation at the absurdity of continued motorway construction....
by Cimino | 18 Jul 2010 | Motorway
Predictably, all the ruckus is over the off and on ramps. An entirely refreshing idea has been suggested by Mahurangi West man Cluny Macpherson. Professor Macpherson contends that bus bays should be provided opposite Pūhoi and Mahurangi West. This would facilitate...
by Cimino | 17 Jul 2010 | Mahurangi West Hall
A plea for 50 donations of $100 has gone out. With a bid somewhat north of $100, a generous contributor to the Mahurangi West Hall mulch fund could come away with a warm feeling and a case of Ransoms’ wine. Tomorrow evening, the Mahurangi Magazine will auction a case...
by Cimino | 14 Jul 2010 | Mahurangi Club
The suggestion has been made before. That a Mahurangi Club be established where proponents can socialise and discuss life, the Mahurangi, and everything. And not just at a general-purpose venue, but at some civilised haunt with a bar and hors d’œuvres. And with...
by Janie Randerson | 12 Jul 2010 | Mahurangi West Hall
We need your help. On Saturday, 14 people turned up at 9am at the Mahurangi West Hall with forks, pitch forks, spades, quad bikes and trailers plus a tractor and tray to load up from where it was dumped on the roadside on to the trailers and cart down to the...
by Cimino | 12 Jul 2010 | Sea-level rise
For most of its 4.5 billion years, Planet Earth has been ice-sheet-free. Ice ages, on the whole, have been kind to humanity. The last interglacial has heralded the era in which humans have prospered, and built civilisation after civilisation. But there’s a good reason...
by Cimino | 7 Jul 2010 | Cartoons
The Craig V Powell animated cartoon that advertised, for a little too long, the Mahurangi Magazine at Matakana Cinemas: Carbon Dioxide’s Colourless: That’ll take their minds off what fossil fuels are doing to the...
by Cimino | 4 Jul 2010 | Climate strategy, Nuclear power
The green stars of the show are set to be the Arabs and the Koreans. South Korea is spending a greater percentage of its economic recovery stimulus on green initiatives than any country in the world. And the United Arab Emirates is investing heavily in renewable...
by Cimino | 27 Jun 2010 | Motorway
Mahurangi’s first near miss was being by-passed by the Great North Road. To avoid being bogged down, early road builders preferred, where possible, keep to the high ground. By electing to run the highway along the Windy Ridge, the harbour was put just out of sight of...
by Cimino | 23 Jun 2010 | Action plan planning
Plan for Mahurangi a million miles away For the first time in more than 150 years, the Mahurangi is about to have a plan. But it won’t much resemble the last one, which was essentially a subdivision to form ‘Mahurangi Township’. Charles Heaphy vc supervised the...
