Photos: Malick Sidibe Shows Mali’s Youth With A Groovy ‘Twist’

Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

Seaside Casino: 1905

How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine

New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout

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Sustainable Package Design is a Must to Tackle Pollution Crisis

Barracuda and surfer dude… 1964 Plymouth press release photo

New evacuations ordered as California Thomas wildfire rages

After You Finish Your Drink, You Can Eat This New Edible Straw

The Downtown LA that just won’t quit

The Fight Against The Tiny Plastic Pellets Choking Our Oceans

Ice Apocalypse | Grist

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Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness

Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents

A Beautiful Pandemonium

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem

This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas

The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online

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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard

Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?

This skate company is turning guns into skateboards

Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they’re delicious

Bartend Against: Helping Communities Across the Globe

“Pacific Vibrations” 1970 “Brave Ulysses”, Ashish & Randy’s Music

Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties

The problem with nuclear waste

Source: House Preparing to Sacrifice Right Whales for Big Oil

MCS joins 150 organisations backing call to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging | Marine Conservation Society

Rich Roat, House Industries founder, dies

The news on “The Reef Beneath” – from the largest living structure on earth

Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation that Revolutionized Map Design (1943)

Weird Waves: The Gudauskas bros, Gerry Lopez, Dylan Graves and Hannah Scott “surfing” 200 miles from the coast

Trump Is No Teddy Roosevelt to America’s Outdoorsmen | NRDC

Yup, the World’s Still Warming and Humans are to Blame | NRDC

Black Magic | Modern Tiki

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Become a patron of Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols today: Read 41 posts by Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.

Source: Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols is creating a movement, for water. | Patreon

Aloha Oe, South London Pacific. After over 15 years of tiki merriment and mirth we’re moving on. Re-opening as the tikitastic Cock Tavern shortly

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Source: 24 Hours of Reality: Be the Voice of Reality  | Climate Reality

Source: New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World – The Atlantic

Source: Easter Island candidate puts self-rule on ballot in Chile election | World news | The Guardian

Source: Congress: Biggest Attack on Marine Mammals in Decades | NRDC

Source: Teasers & Trailers – Flake & Flames

An algae-powered wooden motorcycle? The concept isn’t too far out, considering algae has been used to create everything from eco-friendly sneakers to living lamps that absorb CO2. There’s even…

Source: Dutch designer creates a wooden motorcycle powered by algae

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Source: Australian Lawmakers Propose Outlawing Parody, Having A Sense Of Humor | Techdirt

Source: Under – Snøhetta

Can it be true? A working ‘Dick Tracy Wrist Watch’

Source: Can it be true? A working ‘Dick Tracy Wrist Watch’

Languages of the US before European Colonisation

Source: Zealandia drilling reveals secrets of sunken lost continent | World news | The Guardian

Tiki drinking first bloomed after Prohibition, and now—after a protracted decline—it has returned, integrated into the larger classic cocktail canon.

Source: The Birth, Death and Rebirth of Tiki

Source: Could these flip-flops save the earth?

Johhe rules the dancefloor at the Jam Jam club in Kobe. He spins, shuffles and launches a series of high kicks: his baggy trousers billowing as he syncs his moves to the steady tempo of singer Luther Ingram’s 1967 non-hit If It’s All the Same to You Babe.

Source: Inside Japan’s northern soul movement: Where UK’s retro music rules below the streets of Kobe | The Independent

Nestlé continues to pump millions of gallons of public water from public land, claiming it’s their right. But can they prove it? Sign the petition now!

Source: Tell Nestlé to Prove Its Water Right! | Story of Stuff

Source: Oil and Plastic Are Choking Planet Earth: We Have to Stop Pretending This Isn’t a Problem | Alternet

Source: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing – The New York Times

The story of how I discovered the Morro Bay Skateboarding Museum may be one of the most odd coincidences I’ve experienced in my skateboarding career, so far.Pi

Source: Morro Bay Skateboard Museum | Concrete Wave Magazine

Source: Why is it Every Time We Turn Over a Pirate Rock White Nationalists, Nazi’s and Bigots Scurry Out? | The Trichordist

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Source: If you have $50k, you might be able to buy this iconic 1969 dune buggy / Boing Boing

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Built in 1883 by the eccentric Boston millionaire Franklin W. Smith as his winter home, Villa Zorayda was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. (Wikipedia)Circa 1904. “Zorayda Club, King Street, St. Augustine, Florida.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: Villa Zorayda: 1904 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

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Tribes people from around the world are shown BBC news footage of Morris dancing.

Source: BBC Two – Tribes, Predators & Me, Web exclusive: Tribes react to Morris dancing

Source: Trash Isles: Could the Great Pacific Garbage Patch become an official nation? — Quartz

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Source: ‘Non-drinkers deserve a great adult cocktail’: how alcohol-free spirits became a stealth hit | Life and style | The Guardian

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A longtime South Bay resident barrels through the wave of early-‘60s surf bands and clubs that once gave our Beach Cities a summer soundtrack.

Source: The South Bay Bands that Created the 60’s Surf Music Sound – Southbay Magazine

Source: Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

With her buttoned-up style, work with the UN, and name like a plucky character in a certain English wizard series, Delia Derbyshire may not seem a likely pioneer of experimental electronic music.

Source: Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music | Open Culture

Source: Tidal Power – A Growing, Significant Source Of Renewable Energy | Seeking Alpha

Source: California Locales Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Rising Seas – Scientific American

Health Canada has advised the band council of Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton to issue a water advisory after recent water tests showed high levels of iron and manganese. Meanwhile, the band is trying to get its new water treatment facility up and running.

Source: Potlotek First Nation advised its water unfit for drinking or washing – Nova Scotia – CBC News

Source: Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers

For centuries, journalists, academics, and even politicians have been obsessed with the idea of the untouched tribe.

Source: The Dangerous Myth of Utopian Societies

The Jersey Shore resort town of Asbury Park circa 1900, channeled through vintage high-resolution glass negatives and set to music, produced by the illustrious Ken B. Click Play, then the “Full Screen” icon for the full effect.

Source: Vintage Video: Asbury Park | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

Source: Why We Must Stop the Flow of Tar Sands Oil | NRDC

Rapa Nui have written a new chapter in their history based upon their cultural values of guardianship, responsibility and accountability for the natural environment

Source: The Rapa Nui have shown us that conservation can protect …

Source: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian

Diogenes’ Lantern, near the Brockton Arcade, also boasted imported teas, Italian soft drinks and folk singers

Source: Back in the Day: Riverside joined the Beat generation with 1950s coffeehouse – Press Enterprise