We Can’t Afford Cuts to Coastal Management | NRDC
Source: A crash course on creation myths / Boing Boing
Source: Inuit cartography: maps carved in driftwood / Boing Boing
There was no desire to shatter the square society…only to elude it
Source: History Of Surfing: Surfing’s Beat Generation
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Source: New Disney World dress shop is perfect for Disney-bounding
The fundamental unit of biology is not the self, but the network — and this view has practical consequences, says David George Haskell, author of The Song of Trees.
Source: David George Haskell Explores Life’s Network’s In ‘The Song of Trees’
Our planet’s temperature is rising, but there are things you can do to help.
Source: Climate Change List
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Stopping global warming is only way to save Great Barrier Reef, scientists warn
The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Von null auf Tempo hundert in 2,5 Sekunden: Drei Brüder aus Österreich haben einen legendären Rennwagen von Porsche mit einem Elektroantrieb ausgestattet. Das Auto begeistert – wirft aber eine Frage auf.
Source: Porsche mit Elektroantrieb: Kreisel-Brüder rüsten Rennwagen um
We’re seeing an unusual twist on automotive desirability today that would be quite interesting if it extended to all product design. The twist is this: People want new stuff that’s old, or depending on how you look at it, old stuff that’s new. Here’s what we mean: In America,
Source: Beyond Retro Design: People Want New Things That are Old, or Old Things That are New – Core77
6 Ways To Make Sure You’re Leaving Nothing On The (Merch) Table – MTT – Music Think Tank
Source: A curated catalogue of artists Shag’s creativity over the past three decades / Boing Boing
Congress OKs Ruthless Killing of Iconic Wildlife—What Next? | NRDC
With an estimated 1.4 million trillion plastic microfibers in our ocean today, it’s time to get informed and take action. WATCH the movie, LEARN about the problem, TAKE ACTION with The Story of Stuff Project!
Source: The Story of Microfibers – The Story of Stuff Project
Say aloha to David and Amy Carter’s Tabu Tiki Room.
Source: Tiki collectors escape winter in their basement paradise | Space | Chicago Reader
The last known Tasmanian tiger died more than eight decades ago. It has become the stuff of textbook sketches and yellowing photographs. But now, researchers are launching a new search.
Source: Back From The Dead? Reported Sightings Fuel Hope For Return Of Tasmanian Tigers : The Two-Way : NPR
Hundreds of millions of salmon are presumed dead along the US west coast amid fears that ocean life is being wiped out following the Fukushima disaster.
Source: Hundreds Of Millions Of Salmon Feared Dead On US West Coast – Your News Wire
Trump presidency opens door to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments | Environment | The Guardian
One company wants to turn pollution into shelter.
Source: Can Ocean Plastics Make Homes For The Poor? | Popular Science
Source: Incredible Afrobeat music from Mali / Boing Boing
The Angkor Wat alternative: exploring Cambodia’s forgotten ruins | Travel | The Guardian
The Ruins of the Unsustainable
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Source: How America’s obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai’i / Boing Boing
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Video: Underground Legends – “Odd Todd”
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Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule
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Source: Surfing set to Indonesian 60’s pop / Boing Boing
With much assurance, the radioactive contamination would be contained, the Pacific Ocean is contaminated. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting that, Cesium-134, a radioactive chemical that leaked from Fukushima, is being detected…
Source: Officials Admit Radioactive Fish Off U.S. West Coast Have “Disturbing Fingerprint Of Fukushima” – Counter Current News
A Most Charming Surf Book – Capital Surfers
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The Carbon Bubble is about to pop / Boing Boing
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being | World news | The Guardian
The health of the Great Barrier Reef has entered “uncharted territory” after researchers found there had been mass coral bleaching for two summers in a row for the first time in history.
Source: Great Barrier Reef suffers historic ‘back-to-back’ mass coral bleaching – 9news.com.au
In India, 6,000 tonnes of plastic waste lies uncollected every day. Some of this washes up in Tamil Nadu state where it pollutes and contaminates the food and water of communities living along the Bay of Bengal
Source: Plastic pollution blights Bay of Bengal – in pictures | Global development | The Guardian
How to recycle coffee cups and why we should
From NYC to Topanga Canyon and Bondi Beach, this new book by surf culture blog Indoek offers a glimpse into the homes of surfing’s most creative minds
Climate change is a different prospect of calamity—not just elementally but morally different from nuclear exchange in a manner which has not been properly dealt with.
Source: The Slow Confiscation of Everything | Laurie Penny
Lost Continent Found Under Indian Ocean – The Daily Beast
After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame
Source: Did Pinochet-era deregulation cause Chile’s worst-ever wildfires? | World news | The Guardian
Mozambique Surf Guide | GoSurfAfrica
“Awful,” says writer and painter Ben Shattuck – but in the good way.
Source: What’s It Like to Be the Artist-in-Residence at America’s Least Visited National Park? | NRDC
Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts
“I’m glad I packed extra anti-depressants on this trip.” – Mark Cunningham
Source: Jack Johnson’s Film On Ocean Plastic Pollution | The Inertia
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Source: How Surfing Was Brought to Santa Cruz By Three Teenage Hawaiian Princes
A new study of deep-sea amphipods living six miles beneath the sea’s surface finds surprising levels of toxic chemicals.
Source: The Most Unexplored Habitat on Earth Is Packed with Pollution | NRDC
Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Arrow’s most celebrated theorem illustrates why economics isn’t just wrong-headed but actually destructive.
Source: Bill Black: Kenneth Arrow’s (Ignored) Impossibility Theorem
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Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong
Dem Häuptlingssohn, bestaunt im kolonialen Menschenzoo, gelang ein rasanter Aufstieg. Martin Dibobe kam 1896 aus Kamerun nach Berlin. Er wurde Schlosser, Zugführer, Beamter. Und Vorkämpfer für die Rechte der Afrikaner.
Source: Martin Dibobe, preußischer Afro-Sozi: Black Power im Kaiserreich
Can Preservationists Save L.A.’s Late Modernist Landmarks? – Architecture Lab
When strong winds prevented filmmaker Jo Ruxton from sending a submarine to her chosen recording location off the coast of Marseille, she was naturally nervous.
Source: Our seas have become a plastic graveyard – but can technology turn the tide?
That Sushi May Contain a Tract-Invading Parasitic Tapeworm
Carbon Tracker Initiative’s Luke Sussams says the dropping costs of renewable energy could see global demand for oil and coal peak by 2020
Source: Solar Created More Jobs in 2016 Than Oil, Gas and Coal Combined
Despite having celebrated a victory against the corporation who was constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline, water protectors everywhere might be having to head out into the freezing cold once again to defend the sacred land and valuable waterways. This is because President Donald Trump is expected to go forward with plans to sign an executive