Owner Rod Moore has gone to painstaking detail to make sure his bar in authentic to tiki culture.
Source: Shameful Tiki Room in Parkdale takes tradition seriously | Metro News
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Excavation reveals scale and importance of Greek city on Nile delta that dominated trade
Source: Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong unearthed by British team
Global Corporations are dictating the Canadian Federal Government to demolish treaties and then assimilate first nation’s people into urban cities.
Source: Sacred Spirit of Water – Top Documentary Films
Previously we’ve posted pictures of abandoned,unwanted and battered Futuro houses in Taiwan. So now it’s time to show the prefabricated homes at the start of their journey, when they were a new, fresh and exciting idea for the future. The Futuro was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, he designed the UFO style houses in 1968 to be used as ski-cabins and Summer holiday homes. The sixties were an optimistic time, and [&hellip
Source: The Futuro House – A Home For Tomorrow – Voices of East Anglia
Report: All Major Oil Companies Knew of Climate Change by 1970s
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More than 19,000 cities come to the defense of the Clean Power Plan in court
Source: More than 19,000 cities come to the defense of the Clean Power Plan in court
We’re going back 50 years to look at how the future would have looked in 1999 AD from a sixties point of view
Source: Back to the Future – 50 Years Back – Voices of East Anglia
The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries that have a strong interest in maintaining and expanding their monopolies of digital services and content.
Source: How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Financial specialists making carbon investment risk real today in the capital market
“Acapulco, 1961.” Our third and final visit with the cast of this short-lived NBC detective series starring James Coburn and Ralph Taeger. 4×5 negative from the Shorpy Publicity Department archive.
Source: Low Tide: 1961
What Is No Pop And Why I Will Use This Tag On All Future Releases
Source: What Is No Pop And Why I Will Use This Tag On All Future Releases – MTT – Music Think Tank
Two days after #COP21 agreement, India says it’s still planning to double its coal output
Source: India still plans to double its coal output by 2020.
The coming energy crunch will lead to volatile prices and an overall long-term economic contraction…A new type of institution is needed to handle non-debt finance. It should help promoters plan their projects and then find outside investor-partners in return for a share of each project’s income rather than its profits. <div class=
Source: The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance
Kraken Ceramic
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This map shows how the decisions world leaders make right now could affect future food availability
Source: Let Them Eat Cake?
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Marshall Islands fights for climate action in Paris as sea level rise swallows the island nation
Source: Marshall Islands push for climate action in Paris
Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.
Source: Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
The fate of 70 million people rests on the Mekong river. With crucial UN climate talks in Paris next week, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway and meets people affected by climate change, dams, deforestation and urbanisation
Source: The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis
This [NSFW] 1968 anti-war animated film by Disney legend Ward Kimball is as timely as ever
All images courtesy Joanna Bird Gallery unless otherwise noted As a child, Danish artist Steffen Dam loved poring over his grandparents’ collection of scientific books and cabinets of insects. This fascination of how we catalogue and understand the natural world followed through to his artisti
Source: Exquisite Marine Life Specimens Imagined in Glass by Steffen Dam
Nurtured by three generations of African Americans with a shared vision of economic self-empowerment, the patronage of black businesses, the cultivation of black arts, and the maintenance of a public commons for political discourse, Leimert Park is not just the crown jewel of black Los Angeles, it is its center.
Source: The Center Can Hold: Leimert Park and Black Los Angeles
Jeff Goldblum explains the Clean Power Plan to “reptilian nincompoops” (aka fossil fuel execs)
Source: Don’t Be Garbage People
… and don’t be a tool of garbage people, I’d like to add.
These 10 business leaders show how fighting climate change is good for everyone’s bottom line
Source: The onEarth 10
Dewey Weber’s 22nd Street Cutback Becomes History Written In Bronze – the Full Story
It was the era of sex, drugs and pop revolution, but also of anti-war protest and inner-city riots. Jon Savage describes a year that’s still freaking out the establishment
Source: 1966: the year youth culture exploded
There is no legal protection for climate change refugees. That’s inexcusable.
Source: There’s No Such Thing as a Climate Change Refugee
Could climate change trigger another genocide?
Source: Black Earth
finest handcrafted Longboards,wakgsboards, Esslingen am Neckar
Source: wakgsboards – Coolangatta 6.5
Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross
Source: Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross
Source: Win a guitar from Loog / Boing Boing
Biarritz Doctors Can Now Prescribe Surfing To Treat Illnesses
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
The 1960s fashion is far different from the fashion and makeup styles in the earlier decades. The 1960s introduced the mod look. In this era, the glamorous 1960s makeup pays emphasis on the eyes and little less on the other parts of the face.
Source: How to get a 1960s Makeup Look | 1960s Fashion Style
Chitarra Elettrica Meazzi Mustang – Il Calascione Artisti Liutai
