Source: How America’s obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai’i / Boing Boing

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Video: Underground Legends – “Odd Todd”

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean

Source: This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it’s leaking

A professional diver took inventory of 200km of Canada’s west coast.

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The assumption, made in the video, that this dramatic development was caused by the nuclear desaster in Fukushima is not scientifically founded, or so says Motherload – The Pacific Ocean Isn’t Dying Because of Fukushima

Conservation, Education and Research in French Polynesia

Reef Oasis Found in Depths of Murky Iraqi Waters

Googie Architecture in Los Angeles Part 2

Googie Architecture in Los Angeles Part 1

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10 Reasons Surfing Improves Humanity

How Las Vegas Went From Classy To Trashy

26 Beatnik Slang Words and Phrases We Should All Start Using

Watch 77 People Surf The Same River Wave In France

Book: ‘Rock & Roll’s Hidden Giant,’ by Charlie Gracie (with John A. Jackson)

How to Build an Amazing Surfboard for $75

Architektur nach der Kolonialzeit: Als die Ufos in Afrika landeten

Fish with two mouths caught in Australia

‘Fifty miles out we could smell the pollution’: sailing amid the ocean litter

Keep our oceans healthy!

The Arctic Ocean

Inside the Garbage of the World HD (Theatrical Version)

The Global Ocean Commission’s final report is now available!

Inspectors urge Japan to dump water from Fukushima plant into ocean

Great British Oceans

Indonesia’s Coral Reefs are under Climate Change Threat

The ocean is filling up with plastic, 8 million metric tons per year

How we ruined the oceans

Fukushima Fallout in California 1000x Greater than Expected: What You can Do

A graveyard in the ocean … the end of coral as we know it?

Why Saving Africa’s Elephants Matters More Than You Ever Imagined

Surfrider – Combing the Coast

Rising seas wash Japanese war dead from Marshall Islands graves

Exporting skateboarding culture to Cuba

A Gathering Like No Other: The Wooden Surfboard Day

Breaching Whales Surprise Teahupoo Surfers

Moog Theremini Now Shipping

The end of fish – The Washington Post

Fukushima Disaster Still A Global Nightmare

Climate change to boost summer flash floods, says study

Tropical cyclones and hurricanes shifting toward the poles

Kevin & Jody Show : It’s hot out there today. How thirsty are you? …

What Does U.S. Look Like With 10 Feet of Sea Level Rise?

Vinod Khosla embroiled in civil case…

Language map : What’s the most popular language in your state?

Yuta Sezutsu – InnerViews

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Roaming Sounds: A Mobile, Solar Powered Recording Studio

Do you think frackers should disclose the chemicals they use? EPA wants to know

Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas – NYTimes.com.

Bureo Fishnet Skateboards For Cleaner Oceans

BRUCE BROWN TRIBUTE EVENT GOES DOWN THIS MAY IN HUNTINGTON

The Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash

Diver Jason Dimitri, wearing GoPro camera, comes face-to-face with Caribbean reef shark

[Tepco’s upward revision] “80 BILLION was actually 280 BILLION Bq/m3 in last summer’s leakage” | Fukushima Diary

World History: Why didn’t Japan find the Americas first?

HOWTO buy your way out of a California speeding ticket

Hofner’s Fledermaus Gitarre

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