Peruvian songstress Yma Sumac, a pioneer of exotic, was a legend. That legend was built in Los Angeles.

Source: On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood – LA Times

“We’re being overwhelmed by our waste.”

Source: How The Oceans Became Choked With Plastic

The Archivist: Wild At Heart | The Surfers Journal

Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal | Homestead Guru

Tiki bar site Critiki has named Portland’s Hale Pale as the third best tiki bar in the entire world—for the second year in the row.

Source: Portland Bar Named the Number 3 Tiki Bar in the World – Willamette Week

André Staltz – An off-grid social network

Il compositore, direttore d’orchestra e arrangiatore Alessandro Alessandroni è morto a Roma. Aveva da poco compiuto 92 anni. Celebre il suo

Source: Addio ad Alessandro Alessandroni, il ‘fischio’ western più famoso del mondo – Musica – Spettacoli – Repubblica.it

Dublin’s Science Gallery hosted an evening of talks by Sea for Society featuring people whose lives revolve around the ocean.

Source: Sea for Society: Surfers Against Sewage and the Science of Ireland’s Water – HeadStuff

A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.

Source: Ocean might swallow California sooner than you think – Orange County Register

Nuclear shelters: Japanese civilians are installing tropical island-themed bunkers to prepare for a nuclear war — Quartz

Defend the Sacred: How Could the Peace Movement Prevail?

Red Bull CEO’s Breitbart-Idolizing Politics

The Jersey Shore circa 1901. “Driveway and beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: The Sandpeeper: 1901 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

L.A.’s Concrete River Gets Real | NRDC

Going Lala | The Surfers Journal

US Navy schedules latest war games exercise in Gulf of Alaska, without due regard for environmental or community concerns.

Source: War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!): The U.S. Navy’s Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska

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Mexicos ancient city guards its secrets but excavation reveals new mysteries

His Knibs classic men’s style: Lois vintage-style cord jacket range

The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.

Source: In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money : NPR

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Pumptrack Challenge in Deutschland und der Schweiz wird es auch in diesem Jahr wieder geben. Das Erfolgsrzept setzt sich durch.

Source: Pumptrack Events in der Schweiz – 40inch Longboardmagazin

BANG! The Bert Berns Story

The Jersey Shore circa 1900. “The beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: A Distant Shore: 1900 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

Trump exposes National Parks to oil company drilling

Source: Germans are funky? These bootylicious ‘funk fever’ compilations prove it! | Dangerous Minds

Googie World Expo April 9 & 22

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We Can’t Afford Cuts to Coastal Management | NRDC

Source: A crash course on creation myths / Boing Boing

Source: Inuit cartography: maps carved in driftwood / Boing Boing

There was no desire to shatter the square society…only to elude it

Source: History Of Surfing: Surfing’s Beat Generation

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Source: New Disney World dress shop is perfect for Disney-bounding

The fundamental unit of biology is not the self, but the network — and this view has practical consequences, says David George Haskell, author of The Song of Trees.

Source: David George Haskell Explores Life’s Network’s In ‘The Song of Trees’ 

The American expats breaking up indigenous communities on the Mexican ‘Riviera’ | Global Development Professionals Network

Our planet’s temperature is rising, but there are things you can do to help.

Source: Climate Change List

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Stopping global warming is only way to save Great Barrier Reef, scientists warn

The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Source: 100 Percent Clean Electricity for California

Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.

Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states

California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.

Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism

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Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York

Source: Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York / Boing Boing

Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal

Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed en route to Australia | Science | The Guardian

In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.

Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA

Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism

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Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.

Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Googie World Expo April 9 & 22

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