Links for 9/10/23

Carbon Cash Machine: Meet the Investors Running – and Destroying – Our World

National Science Foundation’s new center connects Indigenous wisdom with Western science | Boing Boing

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

Saving the Planet One Plant-Based Burger at a Time: 6 Environmental Benefits of Veganism

Why the Humble City Bus Is the Key to Improving US Public Transit

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

The Tielman Brothers History

AI and the American Smile

Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

The Guy who Shrunk his 1950s Hometown

Exxon Predicted Oil Burning Role in Climate Change

The Rules of the Economy

A good day to remember that the rules of the Earth system are determined by physics and biology, and the rules of the economy are made up by a small group of self-interested people and could change.

@bethsawin

Links for 7/9/23

Ray’s Hand

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Loveletters Season 10: Hawaii | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding

Video: Lola Mignot: “Deplacer le Silence”

RFKjr’s anti-vax efforts had a devastating effect on Samoa

Earth’s Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh Right Now, And That’s a Big Problem

A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

Ever-Deepening Vortex of Collapse in Earth’s Ecological Systems

Links for 6/17/23

Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’

Traditional Development – #6 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series

A shocking number of birds are in trouble

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

America’s Radioactive Secret

Refreshments were once served from a giant owl-shaped building in Long Beach, California

@justinebateman wants to see AI contract terms in actor agreements and music folk should be checking, too

Fish Are Not Insentient Dullards

Mexico Could Lead the World On Solar Energy?—?And Why it Needs To

Carl Sagan: a lovely and powerful new short film and automaton installation about the urgency of environmental action (video)

6 things to know about heat pumps, a climate solution in a box

The Animals on the beach in California – a world away from Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northern England

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

To Fight Coastal Erosion, Design a Bespoke Artificial Reef

Monsieur Hulot’s Parisian House

We can’t afford to choose adaptation over cutting emissions – suggesting otherwise is dangerous

Déplacer Le Silence With Lola Mignot

Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas

Last Waves Legends

Dancers performing “The Nitty Gritty” from the The Judy Garland Show (1964).

Links for 5/28/23

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution

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Could This Be the Final Frontier for Renewable Energy?

Return to the Water documentary

Are You Using Your Leash Wrong?

@theblakemorgan on AI Bros

Meet the first famous female rock&roll drummer

How to make your wardrobe sustainable

Gov. DeSantis Urged to Veto Radioactive Roads Bill

Grosso Forever: Loveletter To Japan

British Longboard Union highlights reel: Porthmeor Longboard Classic, April 2023

Indigenous peoples caught in the Russia-Ukraine war

Sisters Stacia and Ashley Ahina

Ecocide: Should destroying nature be an international crime?

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

The Fight to Expose Corporations’ Real Impact on the Climate

Takeshi Terauchi, Japan’s Eleki God

Concern grows over rich nations controlling sunlight

So.. You Can Longboard Dance? 2022 | Memories

The dark side of plastic: understanding the impact on our bodies, ecosystems, and the world

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

The origins of climate crisis

Coastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views

Korean Cowboys of the Old World

Woolight Firewire Sustainable Surfboards

Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we’ll win them back

When Good Waves Go Rogue