by Cimino | 7 Apr 2010 | Reviews
Review More: Population, Nature and What Women Want, Robert Engelman Stop at two! Three decades ago it was acceptable to discuss zero population growth in polite circles. After all, it was unquestionable that the world’s population growth was unsustainable. ‘Stop at...
by Cimino | 5 Apr 2010 | Action plan planning
The best is still left till last. But landscape was almost left off entirely, as a separate workshop topic—bumped by regional council enthusiasm to introduce a matrix method of determining which actions ticked, as it were, which boxes. The surprise move met determined...
by Cimino | 31 Mar 2010 | Establishment trials, Report to the Sustainable Farming Fund
Open-ground indigenous plants establishment trials Aotearoa leads the world in radiata pine forestry. It also leads the world in radiata pine forestry nursery practices. Consequently, it is surprising that indigenous nursery practices have failed to piggyback on the...
by Boffa Miskell | 31 Mar 2010 | Action plan planning
The following excerpt is the Landscape section of the draft working paper titled Integration. Editor 4.0 Landscape As has been done with environmental issues addressed in earlier working papers, this section provides a discussion on the topic of landscape, the one...
by Cimino | 27 Mar 2010 | Action plan planning
The best has been left till last: Landscape. Landscape is the Mahurangi’s greatest asset. Not only is it a harbourscape of outstanding natural beauty, Mahurangi is unique in having an emphatically rural landscape, in spite of being the first natural harbour north of...
by Cimino | 1 Mar 2010 | Regatta 2011
Regatta Brainstorming 3 March 2010 Venue Mahurangi West Hall Time 7.30–9pm Latest update He was always going to be a hard man to replace. But after 22 years as regatta director, Michael Gordon could be excused for not wishing to serve in the role in his seventieth...
by Cimino | 15 Feb 2010 | Action plan planning, Dredging, Sea-level rise
Avoid ‘dredging’ with access code Dredging, by definition, is a dirty business. Which is why the draft working paper addressing the issue uses the code access. While many will see this as inexcusable political correctness, it is actually entirely sound to define the...
by Keith Salmon | 10 Feb 2010 | Regatta 2010
First published at Mahurangi Rowing The 2010 Master of the Mahurangi race took place at 11 am. The change to an 11 am time was designed to allow rowers to also compete in the sailing races in the afternoon. While this was possibly announced too late to be of...
by Cimino | 7 Feb 2010 | Regatta 2010
It is all too easy to forget. A year is a long time, and resolutions made in the wake of one Mahurangi Regatta can fade—buried by the mountain of minutiae that is the reality of all-too-busy lives. One such lapse was allowing the Bailey bach to be booked for other...
by Cimino | 30 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) It’s thanks to two particular friends of the Mahurangi. A bus will be shuttling back and forth along Ridge Road, and volunteers and prize-giving and dance – goers will be ferried across...
