by Cimino | 21 Jul 2019 | Buffalo, Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
hmss Buffalo arrives at Mr Browne’s establishment His putative youngest brother was Charles Dickens’ friend and illustrator, Hablot Knight Browne, aka Phiz. Putative, because Hablot was in fact the nephew of the founder of the Auckland region’s first European...
by Cimino | 9 Jun 2019 | Paths and trails, Rivermouth ferry, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Fourth Thursdays 3rd time lucky after 20 June The clash wasn’t discovered until after 20 June was locked in for the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Taking Shapely town-hall talk. Having cheerfully ceded their second-Wednesdays slot to bpw Warkworth, the town-hall talks have...
by Cimino | 14 May 2019 | Rivermouth ferry
Mahurangi Coastal Path taking shapely Most of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail is already in use, and has been for decades. This, thanks to the entire coastline from Waiwera to the Mahurangi Harbour becoming regional park, by 1973. Within that time, built by park staff and...
by Cimino | 20 Apr 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Moratorium on population
Bulletins proclaiming that the ipcc 1.5° report understates climate threat are literally understatements of epochal proportions. Self-reinforcing climate feedbacks already irreversibly underway signal civilization’s ever-growing greenhouse-gas emissions have ensured...
by Cimino | 6 Apr 2019 | Moratorium on population, Sea-level rise
On the unspeakable ephemerality of beaches Relying on economics to salvage a survivable climate is the 21st century equivalent of standing down an army and leaving defence of the realm to wizardry. With the United States Senate summarily scuttling the Green New...
by Cimino | 1 Apr 2019 | Dredging, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
As of midnight last Monday, dredging the town basin and river downstream became the most urgent Mahurangi project. Up until that deadline, feedback on the structure plan that will shape development of Mahurangi’s tidehead town for the next 30 climate-tumultuous years...
by Cimino | 24 Mar 2019 | Warkworth
Anthropogenic climate disruption is not just another issue. It is the issue that will bedevil generation after generation for at least hundreds of years. Just how hard and how fast global warming will impact cannot be accurately quantified, given that carbon dioxide...
by Cimino | 11 Mar 2019 | Paths and trails, Warkworth
Whether the green network proposed in the Draft Warkworth Structure Plan is fit-for-purpose for this week’s climate-striking school students, for their next 30 years, must be the question. And given that streets, once surveyed, tend to endure, the Warkworth Structure...
by Cimino | 3 Mar 2019 | Local, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
There is much to applaud and support in Warkworth’s draft structure plan. Submissions are invited, as is statutorily required, prior to the final stages of the process, labelled, on the flow chart: Changes to Structure Plan and Adoption Or, as the text would have it:...
