From prudish Victorians to arrows in the eye – 10 things from history everyone gets wrong

Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan

VanessaBarragao

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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago

The plastic tide is a symptom of a sickness in society: Surfers Agains – Gather Outdoors

Randy Nauert of The Challengers uploaded this footage from the 40s.

‘If there’s an ocean, maybe there’s surf’: Bruce Brown on making The Endless Summer

Ensuring Climate Data Remains Public

Lance, Miki and Bruce Brown’s brilliant voice-over – the set-up of The Endless Summer

Declaración sobre la Visita a EE. UU., por el Profesor Philip Alston, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza extrema y los derechos humanos*

Why Glitter Must Be Banned | Alternet

Cheapest electricity on the planet is Mexican solar power at 1.77¢/kWh – record 1¢/kWh coming in 2019, sooner | Electrek

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Long Reef Old Mal & Vee Bottom Fest from Chappo Productions on Vimeo.

Roots vs the Future

Stanley Black Sophisticat in Cuba 1958

The New People (1969 Promo)

Mapuche Leader Moira Millán: “We Mapuche people don’t fight for land ownership but for a way of living on the land”

California wildfires: 120,000 forced to flee as blazes tear through south of state

Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem?

How 5 African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene

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Nelson and Ashley Ahina, Laniakea 15 Nov 2017

DownHill SkateBoarding Freeride Lacets Montvernier

This British gent lives life like it’s the 1940s / Boing Boing

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

So we lost John Severson and Bruce Brown in the same year …

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I watched his films many times – maybe because I couldn’t be in the water nearly as much as I would have appreciated. His iconic The Endless Summer was my first exposure to both Brown’s work as well as to mid century surf films as a genre.

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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