Links for 11/3/24

The Energy Collapse | Louis Arnoux

Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

What harmful microbes are lurking in the world’s 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste?

How Peter Sellers Fully Embodied Inspector Clouseau in the ‘Pink Panther’ Film Franchise

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

Can Technology Save Humanity From Social Collapse?

Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

Links for 4/7/24

Skaters with The Best Names

Tea Tree with Taylor Jensen, Tully White, Jack Tyro, Hiroka Yoshikawa, Christy Crookes

A Glimpse into the Future: The 2023 Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes in the Context of Longer-Term Climate Change

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Zombie climate myths that refuse to die (feat. Bob Henson)

How War Became a Business

Big oil uncovered

Location Scouting for Wes Anderson

The Videogame Industry is Larger Than Film and TV Combined, Why Aren’t They Paying Musicians Fairly?

Links for 9/9/23

The Black Cloud + audio book

Die schwarze Wolke

‘They Will Never Change on Their Own’: Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions

‘Pulp Fiction’ music consultants open up about the friendship, mixtapes that helped start a soundtrack revolution

Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?

Australian authorities warn locals to stay away from the mysterious metal cylinder on the beach

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

Tiki Mugs at Mount Longboards (New Zealand)

Finding the First Americans

Links for 5/2/23

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists

Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption

It’s not just you: The planet wants a 4-day workweek, too

Little Richard documentary looks at the life and career of the Black queer rock ‘n’ roll icon

The Dangers Of Highly Centralized AI – Clive Thompson – Medium

Native Tribes of North America, Central America and the Caribbean by Michael Mcardle-Nakoma.

What is Ecological Overshoot and Can Capitalism Correct It?

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in toilet paper around the world

The Beach Mini is back thanks to one German firm

Indigenous Mexicans Risk Their Lives To Defend the Environment From Organized Crime and ‘insatiable, Predatory’ Transnational Corporations

Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century

Building

Visit to Los Angeles 1960s (60fps, added sound w/ color remaster)

Returning the Gift

Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price.

Links for 2/18/23

Down to Earth: The Arizona teen whose death in extreme heat is a warning of tragic things to come

Instead of planting trees, give forests back to people

Geoengineering in Latin America may create more problems than it solves

Curl Radio

How did the genocide of indigenous Americans impact the health of planet Earth? | Boing Boing

Sanxingdui: A Bronze Culture that is Rewriting History

The world is struggling to figure out conservation. First Nations have some ideas.

Check out these films by Indigenous filmmakers

Ruins of Detroit: Before & After

Links for 3/8/22

Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene: Non-Conventional Hydrosocial Relations Among the Wayuu of the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia

The internet is tricking our brains

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

A Celebration of Opening Title Sequences (And Why They Need To Come Back)

Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s | RetroFocus

Teen Dance at Lloyd Goodfellowship Hall [Menominee, MI April 1965]

The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: LA Exotica: The Trader Vic’s Experience

What is the value of a wave?

A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

Dale Davies Surf Movie surfing 50’s & 60’s VOL 1

Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#1)

Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science

The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)

This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees