Research reveals Coca Cola and PepsiCo responsible for 25% of packaging pollution found on UK beaches

The Slippery Slopes of the World Sand Shortage

Surf producer Tony Hilder passed

After music he later got involved with mental mazes, more ominous than the darkest Surf instrumental.

Offset ukuleles

Microplastics are raining down from the sky

A Vigorous Devourer of Greenhouse Gas Is Living Beneath Our Feet

The Last Battle of the Cree Nation

Photographer Dick Hoole recalls a time when Burleigh Heads was surfing’s ‘centre of the universe’

Voice for the Ocean

Scott Walker BBC Documentary 1995

‘Defending our existence’: Colombian tribe stands in way of oil exploration

Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia

Apocaloha! Shirt

Thanks to Daena on Twitter I became aware of the New York Times obituary for late Mike Doyle.

The natural world can help save us from climate catastrophe

How to Experience Tiki Cuture in San Francisco

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

exhibition, May 5, 2019 – October 27, 2019 

Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change

“Isolated” Follows Surfers As They Encounter Untold Human Rights Atrocities In West Papua

Surfers get “Isolated” in West Papua

‘It opened my eyes’: The Indonesian woman fighting for West Papuan independence

The Mysterious Menehune of Hawai’i

Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year, researchers find

Going Native: 1890

The Chinese were white – until white men called them yellow

‘We cannot swim, we cannot eat’: Solomon Islands struggle with nation’s worst oil spill

We Grew Up in Case Study House #22

Marika Rökk, Finale “Ich warte auf Dich”

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Volkswagen-Powered Wishbone Custom Will Soon Cross the Auction Block

Indigenous Peoples Go to Court to Save the Amazon From Oil Company Greed

Westside Historic

ISA Welcomes Oman and Mongolia as New Member Nations

Classique Basque stylist Clovis Donizetti, fun at home in Biarritz

Steve Cleveland: a Paradigm Shift

Six-decade plankton study charts rise of ocean plastic waste

Jim Flora Storyboards

Westside Historic

‘Echo in the Canyon’: See Jakob Dylan, Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, More in New Trailer

Letter from New Zealand

Oceans Are Warming Far Faster Than Scientists Estimated

Mystery mud on new volcanic island baffles Nasa scientists

Flintstones-Themed Bedrock City In Arizona Quietly Closes After Nearly 50 Years

Link to Vimeo

Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database

Exploring Instrumental from the year 1963

In Memory of the Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Scott Walker : Scott Walker (1943-2019)

Trader Vic’s, a bastion of Tiki in Emeryville, started as a one-room beer parlor in Oakland

One Hula Of A Night: All The Best Tiki Bars In London

The New Speakeasy: Cocktails in a Stranger’s Kitchen

Seaweed Sippers

Cruising Down SoCal’s Boulevards: Streets as Spaces for Celebration and Cultural Resistance

The most dangerous climate feedback loop is speeding up

An ocean of evidence on warming is our cue to take action – now

Kelp In the Lineup? Here’s What You Need To Know

How the 45 RPM Single Changed Music Forever

Westside Historic

In Loving Memory of Darcy Belanger, 1972-2019

There is a word for the trauma caused by distance from nature

From paradise to landfill: beloved California beach covered in trash

Jacques and Yvonne Lasry play a crystal baschet (1961)

Jacques and Yvonne Lasry play a crystal baschet (1961) pic.twitter.com/svt8HDcChr

— Flashbak.com (@aflashbak) 30. Januar 2019

Why Australia’s beaches are the spiritual centre of a secular nation

Are super-yachts the best places to keep your art collection?

Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone?

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The Climate Change Lawsuit That Could Stop the U.S. Government From Supporting Fossil Fuels

The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront

‘We are fighting’: Brazil’s indigenous groups unite to protect their land

The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples

Greenland’s ice is melting four times faster than thought—what it means

Three-Ingredient Summer Cocktails

Easter Island looks for help to save statues from ‘leprosy’

Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

Extreme CO2 levels could trigger clouds ‘tipping point’ and 8C of global warming

Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth, NASA Study Shows

When Tech Leaves No Space for Humans

The study on collapse they thought you should not read – yet

Cocktail of the week: the whirling dervish

Westside Historic

Robert August: My First Board

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.

In the Valley of Fear

‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.

Melting Arctic ice is now pouring 14,000 tons of water per second into the ocean, scientists find