by Cimino | 9 Nov 2018 | Marine farming, Membership and bequests, Mussel action
Text as published in the 2019 Mahurangi Cruising Club Yearbook Green-lipped-mussel-reef establishment might seem an unlikely choice for a climate-change tour-de-force by the organisation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta 42 years ago this summer. But Mahurangi Action...
by Cimino | 9 Nov 2018 | Mussel action
Can you spare half a day to help further-build mussel reefs in the Mahurangi Harbour? If you have time, the other six quick questions will help Mahurangi Action plan the five-year green-lipped mussel reef restoration research project. Beyond volunteering, even a...
by Cimino | 9 Nov 2018 | Committee, Meetings and celebrations
Global Warming of 1.5°C will forever define 2018, the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finally published a report that refrained from kicking the climate-action can ever-further down the road. Since that report, as is the all-too-familiar...
by Cimino | 5 Nov 2018 | Committee
Ahead of the 14 November annual general meeting, nine nominations have been received for Mahurangi Action Incorporated’s 2018–2019 committee: Tessa Berger (as president incumbent) entrepreneur, Rodney Local Board member, chair of Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust...
by Cimino | 30 Oct 2018 | Mussel action, Rivermouth ferry
Interim river-mouth scow and mussel restoration research At first blush, the roles would appear to be impossibly disparate. One role is as a testbed for a Pūhoi River Mouth reaction ferry. The other is as Mahurangi Action’s all-purpose scow, for everything from...
by Cimino | 21 Oct 2018 | Committee, Meetings and celebrations, Term of office
agm tagged to 14 November town-hall talk To save dragging some of the same folk out twice in one month, Mahurangi Action is tagging its annual general meeting to next month’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk. This is not to suggest that the society is permanently abandoning...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2018 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
As befits the stellar success of the last town-hall talk, before finances forced a two-month hiatus, the series is back to stay. August’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk, by Dr Andrew Jeffs, has spawned a five-year, potentially $1 million, research project aimed at slashing...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2018 | Regatta 2019
Mahurangi Cruising Club’s website is offline, pending a refit. Meantime, the Mahurangi Magazine, as it has since 2007, has the programme for the upcoming Mahurangi Regatta: 2019 Mahurangi Regatta Programme Mahurangi Regatta supporters Auckland CouncilBrowns Bay...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2018 | Climate mobilisation, Sea-level rise, Zero-carbon energy
Wasting storms of the grandparents When Dr James Hansen published Storms of My Grandchildren nine years ago this December, he lambasted governments for greenwashing while doing nothing meaningful to curtail fossil-fuel use. But despite, by that time, having already...
