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
Steve McQueen’s long missing ‘Bullitt’ Mustang found / Boing Boing
I pledge to stand in resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on America’s clean air, clean water, climate, wildlife, civil rights, reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, and freedom of speech and religion.
Source: Pledge of Resistance to Donald Trump’s Assault on America’s Environment, Democracy and Civil Rights
Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon
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Defend California from Federal and Civil Rights Rollbacks | NRDC
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
And it won’t soon be forgotten.
Source: The Standing Rock Fire Is Visible All Over the United States
James Baldwin trounces William F. Buckley (1965)
Source: James Baldwin trounces William F. Buckley (1965)
You surely do notice the absence of a native in the discussion.
The Lost Journals of Peter Troy from TSJ 20.4.
Source: The Archivist: World Tour | The Surfers Journal
West Hollywood honors the era of the Sunset Strip’s heyday
Source: These Rare Vintage Photos of the Sunset Strip Will Transport You to the 1960s – Los Angeles Magazine
Patagonia Makes Things Political With Outdoor Retailer Show In Utah
The faster-than-expected melt of the Greenland ice sheet is yet another example of climate models proving to be too conservative.
Source: Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted by Current Models | naked capitalism
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New Zealand Duke Festival – the Program, the Party
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What is ‘cultured meat’ and how can it address the most pressing global problems? Let us introduce you to some of the brilliant minds behind it.
Source: How can Cultured Meat solve World Hunger and Global Warming?
Police brutality against protesters is reminiscent of civil-rights battles like Selma. And the state has borrowed millions to fund it.
Source: Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock – The Daily Beast
It’s up to progressives to fight back against this idiocy-promoting rhetoric and save the Earth
Tiny, poor, diabetes-wracked Pacific island nations want to ban junk food, despite risk of WTO retaliation
Growing alternatives to petroleum-based packaging
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Landscape architect Kristina Hill focuses on helping cities adapt to climate change, particularly sea level rise. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she discusses the challenges, solutions, and costs of saving cities from encroaching oceans.
Source: Rethinking Urban Landscapes To Adapt to Rising Sea Levels – Yale E360
How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items
Source: How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items / Boing Boing
Cult band begin a deluxe reissue campaign to release their long out-of-print back catalogue!
Source: Dengue Fever announce deluxe reissues
The first new record-pressing machines built in over 30 years are finally online.
Source: Meet the Warm Tone, the Software-Controlled Record Press Fueling Vinyl’s Comeback
Why Monsanto Wants Me In Jail | Patreon
Wiki page on Native Americans in America.
Source: Native Americans Project Space Page
A memo leaked today orders all of the bureaus of the Department of Interior, which includes the Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Ocean Energ…
Source: Leaked Memo Silences Department of Interior | The Wildlife News
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Follow the money: Will Trump repay Putin by ending Russian sanctions and killing the Paris climate deal?
Source: Did Putin help elect Trump to restore $500 billion Exxon oil deal killed by sanctions
Is buying something with the click of a mouse worse for the planet than picking it up off the shelf and taking it home yourself? And if it is – would it change the way you shopped?
Source: Online vs offline shopping: which is better for the environment? | DW Environment
I was delighted to see giant basking sharks on a recent trip to Scotland, but such moments of wonder are rare. Creating fishing reserves would allow our oceans to recover – and preserve this incredible feeling
Source: The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea | The Guardian
At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
Source: We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years | The Guardian
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The continent broke off of Pangaea and sank into the ocean, but there’s still some evidence remaining on at least one island.
Source: Scientists Found a ‘Lost’ Continent in the Indian Ocean
Video: Hobie Team Bootleg, Early ’60s
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Source: 1000-year old windmills still in use / Boing Boing
Mark Zuckerberg is the 6th richest person on the planet. Facebook is the 6th largest company in the world by market cap. By any measure Facebook is the world’s largest media company a…
Global research group will trace Totten glacier’s history back to last ice age, in hope of predicting future melting patterns
