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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

Links for 7/6/25

How Danny Hess Crafts Wooden Surfboards

Scientists Used Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan to Japan

Free tool helps dodge grant rejections as federal censorship expands

Surf

AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

Lost art of coconut shell navigation: How Pacific islanders crossed oceans

Chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, study finds

Tech continues to be political

Lithium mine’s approval violates international rights agreement, says Human Rights Watch

Top Economist Exposes Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change

Capital will continue on its path, indifferent to the ruins it leaves

A brief history of the recycling lies told by the plastics industry

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

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Links for 6/22/25

How to Protect Yourself during Protests

A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High

The Reward was Worth It

No Surfing

David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ Offers Hope – but He Urges Us To Act Too

The hidden underwater eden of ‘California’s Galapagos’, where seals and grizzly bear-sized bass reign

Guest post: Exploring the risks of ‘cascading’ tipping points in a warming world

Trump and the New Climate Feudalism: A Strategy for Dominance in a Collapsing World

Trump ruins summer vacation, and it’s only January

Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy

A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights

SkateBoarder Magazine – Vol. 1, No. 2

Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.

Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.

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Links for 1/6/25

The Age of the Double Sell-Out

Colorado landfills generate as much dirty air as driving 1 million cars for a year

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

New UCS Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of Deceit, Implications for Climate Accountability Lawsuits

How We Lost Our Focus (and why it should scare you)

How Hunter-Gatherer Kids Learn Lifelong Skills by Age Six

Revising the cost of climate change: Study yields projections ‘six times larger than previous estimates’

Taking an Internet Walk

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Links for 5/17/25

Polyglot Gives a Talk to High School Students in Their Native Gen Alpha Language

The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home

NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: ‘Getting faster and faster’

Deep-Sea Mining: World’s Oceans Facing a New Threat

Rich Chew chats about the first Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships in 1965

Jolly Sand

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound

Geoengineering Gone Wrong? Proposed Climate Solution Could Actually Have Dangerous Side Effects

California bill would let insurers, policyholders sue Big Oil for climate disasters

Ultimate Guide To Polarizer Skateboards

Labeled ‘hispanic’

A Dubious Cure for Ocean Plastics

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Links for 4/19/25

Mike Doyle – Surfing Memories – the Early Years

WeHoTV NewsByte: Domenic Priore

The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities

Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025)

The Great Tech Heist – How “Disruption” Became a Euphemism for Theft

Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025)

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

What’s Up Wit’ That? – Tiki Culture

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permacomputing

Austronesian Languages Comparison

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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching

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Links for 8/4/24

The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate

History of Wind Power

The end of cloud computing

Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable

The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity

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Links for 6/29/24

Despite living a walkable distance to a public pool, American man shows how street and urban design makes it dangerous and almost un-walkable

How sets travel across the ocean

Why the world’s oceans are changing colour

The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record

What Is a Steady-State Economy? How Do We Achieve It?

The Unortho_docs | Episode 1 – Richie Jackson

The Ideology of Human Supremacy

Sun Hips

Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

Degrowth: The Vision We Must Demand

Video: Goodbye, snow?

‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl’s hypotheses on the Pacific’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

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Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

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Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

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