Links for 6/1/16

Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) Foundation Press Release: 8 October 2015, Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20)

Source: Vulnerable Twenty Group V20 – Founded


 

She influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless others, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her own right.

Source: The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll


 

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In a rare move to shun tourism profits for environmental protection, 10 popular dive sites have been shut down in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis

Source: Thailand closes dive sites over coral bleaching crisis | Environment | The Guardian


 

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Links for 5/29/16

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My name is Freddy from Bidart, France and I wanted to share a link of my latest video edit . It’s of some random surf sessions with friends in the South West of France this winter who surf for Gato Bask / Gato Heroi. Thanks for watching! – Freddy Bermond

Source: Video: Xolomak Iii


 

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Australian projects are viable already – now the industry needs investors willing to take a risk on large-scale renewable energy

Source: ‘Tantalisingly close’: is solar thermal energy ready to replace coal-fired power? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian


 

Scientists don’t know how much flooding Antarctic melting will cause — but it may wipe out cities.

Source: Fate of World’s Coastlines Rests on Melting Antarctic Ice

Links for 5/18/16

A battle over access to a prime piece of California coast has brought unwanted attention to one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

Source: Billionaire V.C. under fire in beach dispute – Reuters.TV


 

An oil sheen of 2 miles by 13 miles could be seen off the Louisiana coast.

Source: Shell Oil Spill Dumps Thousands Of Barrels Of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico


 

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Berta Cáceres, the environmental advocate shot dead in her home in March, told friends of a hitman boasting about his plans as she ‘worked frantically’

Source: ‘Time was running out’: Honduran activist’s last days marked by threats


 

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Record Store Day – SpecialRelease

Links for 5/14/16

Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers


 

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We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry


 

Amidst lingering smoke from the morning’s ceremony, Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda opened up the space with a welcoming. “We celebrate that you are here with us today to build something real. We don’t want our Sister Berta to become an empty word. We don’t want her name to become just another slogan.”

Source: What Does Justice for Slain Honduran Environmentalist Berta Cáceres Mean? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community


 

Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing.

Source: Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area | ThinkProgress


 

Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.

Source: Watching Out for Our Water | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Links for 5/12/16

Hokule‘a Arrives in Historic Yorktown, Virginia Aloha Charleston! Hokule‘a arrives in South Carolina to participate in the Charleston Outdoor Festival. Honoring Hawai‘i’s Astronauts Inspired by the common values of exploration and protection of our planet, Hokule‘a and Worldwide Voyage crewm…

Source: Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage


 

A U.N. panel said that governments should work towards studying the worst-case global warming scenarios.

Source: Governments Should Study Worst-Case Warming: U.N. | Climate Central


 

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Where is Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavor? Science can almost tell us!


 

The mass killings in 1965 live on in global emissions from forced forest fires – and through human rights abuses in the palm oil fields

Source: Why today’s global warming has roots in Indonesia’s genocidal past | Joshua Oppenheimer


 

Mekong: a river rising


 

Landmark case may force minister to consider coal’s impact on reef and block new fossil fuel projects

Source: Great Barrier Reef: new chapter opens in the fight to save natural wonder from mining

Links for 5/8/16

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Met Office says warm spell should last most of the week as temperatures in much of UK hit 27C on Sunday

Source: Britain hotter than Ibiza during ‘exceptional’ May heatwave


 

Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.

Source: Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat by Nicola Jones: Yale Environment 360


 

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A Single Picture Explains Why the NMPA/HFA/Spotify Settlement is Deeply Flawed


 

Ecocapsule: A Tiny Solar-and-Wind-Powered Mobile Home


 

Source: Retro To Go: New Dansette reissue: Crosley CR6234A Dansette Junior portable record player


 

Single-fin surfing, black wetsuits, and elevator music from filmmaker/photographer Tatsuo Takei

Source: Authentic Wave | The Surfers Journal

Links for 5/2/16

The “Legal Literacy Test” Imposed On Artists By Lenz Decision Benefits Google, Violates Human Rights

Source: The “Legal Literacy Test” Imposed On Artists By Lenz Decision Benefits Google, Violates Human Rights | The Trichordist


 

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BBC Global Dimming Documentary About Geoengineering & Global Warming


 

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Are you looking for a way to get back to the good old days in one way or another? This classic hippy van is a way to do it without compromising your values

Source: Volkswagen Re-Releasing Classic Hippy Van As New Electric Version


 

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Links for 4/27/16

Tom the Dancing Bug, in which Nate the Right Pundit bravely asserts that the Science just isn’t settled yet, on such pressing issues as global warming and his acute appendicitis.

Source: Tom the Dancing Bug: Nate, in “Skeptic Shock”


 

When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?

Source: Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’ | Cities | The Guardian


 

For their March 1958 issue, Family Circle magazine invited eight “authorities,” including Charles Eames, to offer advice on home decoration.

Source: Love and Discipline in the Age of Choices | Eames Office


 

+2 C everywhere and all of the time.

Analysis of difference between 1.5C and 2C of warming finds extra 0.5C would mean longer heatwaves, greater droughts and threats to crops and coral reefs

Source: Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise


 

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Jake Phelps has run Thrasher Magazine for two decades. It may be killing him.

Source: Thrashed — The California Sunday Magazine