Links for 10/1/13

Climate change and the point of no return

Ikea selling solar panels

Gray whale dies bringing us a message — with stomach full of plastic trash

Plastic Nest and Net Patrol on Kauai | Surfrider Foundation

Road trip begins for world’s largest film camera

Spy Into Mid-Century Balboa Highlands Tract Houses as They Become Transparent – Video Interlude – Curbed LA

Monsoons and flooding in India, Typhoon Usagi nails Philippines, Taiwan and China, plus Colorado updates – Faun Kime

Climate change: how hot will it get in my lifetime?

Tepco doesn’t measure radiation accumulated on the bottom of the sea | Fukushima Diary

Cooking Up The Planet: Climate Change Is Real and We Are The Cause

Yanks Deep In Peru For World Longboard Champs

Links for 9/30/13

The Obit Patrol: Sebastian “Billy” Mure

Surfer’s Guide to the Climate Change

Scientists discover ‘black holes’ in Earth’s oceans

Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown

Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops

Tepco “We don’t watch Tokyo bay contamination” | Fukushima Diary

Bali’s Trash Problem Subject of New Film

Cost savings of renewable energy might outweigh costs of adapting to renewable energy

vintage everyday: Advertisement for Atabrine during WWII

Links for 9/23/13

The Crisis at Fukushima’s Unit 4 Demands a Global Take-Over | Common Dreams

Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Are You Drinking Too Much? The Myth Of Moderation – Forbes

Overfishing of sharks trashing coral reefs | Herald Sun

Overfishing a threat – Fiji Times Online

How Deep is The Costa Rica Shark Finning Rabbit Hole? | The Costa Rican Times

Maili Masters

Speaker Week(s) Begins with Jordan Watts | Preservation Sound

 

Links for 9/21/13

Coral reefs suffer as the relentless hunt for shark fins takes its toll | Environment | theguardian.com

Journalism and Climate Change: A conversation about this bad relationship and ideas about what might help – Faun Kime

vintage everyday: Fashion on the Street of Singapore, ca. 1969

Japan Meteorological Research Institute “60,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 and Sr-90 is leaking to the open ocean everyday” | Fukushima Diary

Locking in the locked-out generation – The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

bella vita

Miniweb Earth League News

Lost & Found on Vimeo

Arctic Ocean Acidification – Faun Kime

Links for 9/19/13

Stop Dirty Energy Development in Santa Barbara! | 350.org Campaigns

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

NHK: Attempts to stop Fukushima contamination flowing into ocean have failed — Japan Nuclear Expert: “Most likely flowing fairly quickly into sea” from nearby Reactor No. 2

The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained | Mother Jones

vintage everyday: Beautiful Women’s Swimwear Fashion in the 1950’s

Forget zombies; we should be fighting jellyfish | Grist

Climate change to have double impact – study | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Wildlife vulnerable to climate change teeters on edge of extinction

Links for 9/17/13

How Much More Can Polar Bears Take?

Hawaii Molasses Spill: Sen. Brian Schatz Wants Review After Honolulu Accident

Unprecedented rate and scale of ocean acidification found in the Arctic

Elliot Easton’s Tiki Gods invite you to Easton Island

Prince Jefri of Brunei: how to blow billions – Boing Boing

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Satellite reveals ‘hidden’ 1000-ha oil palm plantation in Amazon rainforest in Peru

Europe importing more palm oil for biofuels, raising risks for rainforests

Rolling Stone Mobile – Politics – Politics: Global Warming Is Very Real

Japan Typhoon Threatens Fukashima Nuclear Plant

The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas – Boing Boing

Links for 9/16/13

A tank area dam overflowed due to the Typhoon rain | Fukushima Diary

LG Made a Retro Wood-Panelled LED TV with Knobs and Everything

Molasses spill in Hawaii destroys ocean habitats, draws sharks to area where humans surf and swim – Boing Boing

Hawaiian Molasses Spill: Cleanup As Slow As : Discovery News

Arctic Ocean Acidification – Faun Kime

Finding the Ocean Inside of a Giant Opal

Plastic Paradise – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Surfrider Foundation

Google’s lobbyists go big on climate change denial, raise money for Inhofe & Competitive Enterprise Insitute – Boing Boing

vintage everyday: The Who’s Pete Townshend on a skateboard, c. 1960s

vintage everyday: Old Photos of Life with Beach Bums at San Onofre, Calif., 1950