links for 12/20/22

Rockabilly Pioneer Charlie Gracie Passes Away

The search for an AC that doesn’t destroy the planet

Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Cartoonist Kayfabe talks paintings by Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine and ZAP comix artist

The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The Game Is Rigged: Rethinking The Creator Economy | What Works with Tara McMullin

John’s Beachcombing Museum is an eco-friendly attraction made from objects found on the beach

The Chimbu, a tribe in Papua New Guinea paints skeletons on themselves to strike fear in their enemies

Minimal Maintenance

Melodians Steel Band – Für Elise (1972) Rare UK Funky Instrumental Reggae

Links for 11/17/22

The inconvenient truth of global warming in the 21st century

A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s

Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Climate Change

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns

The Case for Hawaii Having Its Own Olympic Surf Team

Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History

Links for 10/2/22

The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance

Lost Cities and Climate Change

A not so gentle intro to web3

For skaters, will Tempe, Arizona be the American Malmo?

What increased CO2 in the air does to our wood supplies.

Mental Longboarding – Andy Nieblas Surfing Malibu

A Brief History of Classic Ska

INNOSKATE: 60 Years of Skateboard Innovation and Invention.

Past the Precipice? Projected Coral Habitability Under Global Heating

RIP Johnny Fain – one of the Four Princes of Malibu (dated already)

New Paper Warns That Environmental Collapse Will Lead To “untold Suffering”

Dorothy Ashby: Pioneering Jazz Harpist

Links for 9/11/22

This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives

I worked for BP for 30 years – the energy sector has become incompetent and greedy

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

Lotion in the ocean: is your sunscreen killing the sea?

Listen up: why indie podcasts are in peril

Portable off-grid wind and water turbine

Climate Change Is Killing Beautiful Music, Too

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Doggerland Documentary

Distilling the essence of the global climate report into haiku poetry

Links for 7/3/22

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Links or 5/8/22

Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not “free speech”

Introducing The Waxhead

Nano state: tiny and now everywhere, how big a problem are nanoparticles?

8 Endangered Places We Can Still Save From Climate Change

The little island that won: how a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that’s happening now

Links for 4/23/22

The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Fires, Floods, FFS Enough! Email Your Local Candidates In the Lead Up To This Year’s Federal Election.

Private paradise: The French Polynesian island locking locals out of beaches

New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration

New Australian Craze “Roller Boarding” 1964

Is it time to begin rewilding the seas?

First Session at Huntington Beach

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.