by Cimino | 10 Jul 2018 | Climate action commission, Climate mobilisation
Proposed carbon bill zero-action Generation Zero is ecstatic. But over a proposed zero-carbon bill that clings stubbornly to the ineffectual, at best, emissions-trading-scheme approach. To be fair, Generation Zero’s enthusiasm is primarily for having succeeded in...
by Dr James Hansen | 27 Jun 2018 | Climate action, Nuclear power
Thirty years later, what needs to change …in our approach to climate change As published in the Boston Globe 27 June 2018 Thirty years ago, while the Midwest withered in massive drought and East Coast temperatures exceeded 100°as published: 100 degrees FahrenheitF, I...
by Cimino | 25 Jun 2018 | Climate strategy, Coalition democratisation, STV
Corrected 30 June 2018; 16 August 2018 Mayor Goff was elected by barely 18% of registered voters. Len Brown at least, won 47.8% of votes cast, but only because voters were then still in the dark about his grubby use of Auckland Council property. But the bigger crime...
by Cimino | 8 Jun 2018 | Campaign Finance Reform, Climate action, Climate mobilisation, Democracy, Nuclear power, Rail with trail, Transport and climate action
Visiting Aotearoa for all the right reasons Neither of New Zealand’s two main industries is currently sustainable. Its once-vaunted agricultural industry, a proud part of the green revolution, is now a climate delinquent, due to the white gold-rush. Tourism, which...
by Cimino | 24 May 2018 | Democracy index, Election turnout, Term of office, Youth voting
You say you want a constitution and less democracy What’s good for doctors of medicine, it would appear, doesn’t apply to doctors of law. The imperative to first do no harm is being violated in the latest proposal by Dr Andrew Butler and Sir Geoffrey Palmer qc...
by Dr Ronald Locker | 19 May 2018 | Part 4 Surveys and Settlement
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014–. This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 4 Surveys and settlement Pages 77–96in printed edition Last rangatira of Mahurangi and his hapū The death of...
by Cimino | 15 May 2018 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
While it was all about density, it said more about the limitations of developer-led planning. Presenting this month’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk, Mark Fraser, precinct manager for hlc, detailed the lengths necessary to dissuade builders from building same-old-same-old,...
by Cimino | 7 May 2018 | Climate action, Media missing in climate action
Nothing stopping Labour unequivocally claiming climate His frustration was palpable. Following his party’s first electoral foray, when more than 98% of the populace proved to be impervious, the Rodney candidate declared: What we need is a decent nuclear accident, then...
by Cimino | 28 Apr 2018 | Motorway, Transport and climate action, Warkworth
Roads, historically, were not about cars. They were not even about private vehicles, until the last 100 of human civilisation’s 5500-year existence. So perhaps the Labour Party’s pandering to Penlink is understandable, as it seeks to wrest more of the centre off...
