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Mahurangi vessels by tonnage, by builder
First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Part 5 A maritime communityMahurangi vessels, by tonnage, by builderFollowing are are vessels known to...
Mahurangi vessels, by vessel name, by builder
First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Part 5 A maritime communityMahurangi vessels, by vessel name, by builderFollowing are are vessels...
Mahurangi vessels by builder, by year built
First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Part 5 A maritime communityMahurangi vessels, by builder, by year builtFollowing are vessels known to...
Climate and the economy when green turns to grey
Everything that began with Marx, the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, 1917 and all that, petered out. Even World War II became just history. The choice facing western Europeans was no longer one of capitalism or…
Mahurangi Action – The beginnings
For me, at any rate, it began with a luncheon discussion, on our house deck at Scotts Landing, with David Thom, Auckland consulting engineer and member of planning and environmental bodies. A few of us had enlisted him to give advice on salvaging the…
To the General Assembly of the United Nations
As I see it, this is the way for the nations of the world to break the vicious circle which threatens the continued existence of mankind, as no other situation in human history has ever done. We are caught in a situation in which every citizen of every country, his...
Grasp opportunity for Climate Action Party of Aotearoa
A green economy won’t ward off an unsurvivable climate. In fairness, there is no longer any guarantee that it’s not already too late for any human intervention to prevent the onset of Hothouse Earth. Every additional day wasted increases the chance that…
For feck sake fix mixed-member proportional
Evidence-based voter-turnout-decline interventions Ordered by urgency of deployment Year-7–15 voting as curtain-raiser Universal year-7–15 voting in schools—extended Kids Voting Election Day enrol-and-vote Concurrent elections, which will quickly recoup the...