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Mahurangi Action 44th annual report
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…
2018–2019 committee nominations to hand
Ahead of the 14 November annual general meeting, the following nominations have been received for Mahurangi Action Incorporated’s 2018–2019 committee: Tessa Berger (as president, incumbent) entrepreneur, Rodney Local…
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 mussel-reef restoration research to…
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 its salubrious tradition of meeting at…
Town-hall talks back with Professor Bill McKay
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…
Mahurangi Cruising Club website refit
Mahurangi Cruising Club’s website is offline, pending reconstruction. Meantime, the Mahurangi Magazine, as it has since 2007, has available the programme for the upcoming Mahurangi Regatta: 2019 Mahurangi Regatta Programme
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 seen his…
With every fibre and electrified-transit solution
Aucklanders once took an average of more than 400 public-transport trips per year. In 1945, with a sixth of the population, Aucklanders were taking nearly 120 million trips, compared to today’s paltry 90 million boardings. Not that all Aucklanders should be…