Photos of Greenland’s Inuit communities show a way of life vanishing with the ice

Source: Gone with the Ice

‘If you want to see a pause and you don’t understand statistics…it is very easy to find a pause.’

Source: Study refutes global warming pause

https://vimeo.com/47762217

The Tongva are part of the past, present, and future of the Arroyo Seco.

Source: Outreach: The Tongva are the Native People of Los Angeles

Source: Tiki lounge comes to Portland this winter | Urban Eye

[The Washington Post] A new scientific analysis highlights the role of corporate donations in creating doubt about climate change.

Source: Why are so many Americans skeptical about climate change? A study offers a surprising answer. in Energy Policy curated by Ohio Citizen Action

All images courtesy Joanna Bird Gallery unless otherwise noted As a child, Danish artist Steffen Dam loved poring over his grandparents’ collection of scientific books and cabinets of insects. This fascination of how we catalogue and understand the natural world followed through to his artisti

Source: Exquisite Marine Life Specimens Imagined in Glass by Steffen Dam

Nurtured by three generations of African Americans with a shared vision of economic self-empowerment, the patronage of black businesses, the cultivation of black arts, and the maintenance of a public commons for political discourse, Leimert Park is not just the crown jewel of black Los Angeles, it is its center.

Source: The Center Can Hold: Leimert Park and Black Los Angeles

Jeff Goldblum explains the Clean Power Plan to “reptilian nincompoops” (aka fossil fuel execs)

Source: Don’t Be Garbage People

… and don’t be a tool of garbage people, I’d like to add.

These 10 business leaders show how fighting climate change is good for everyone’s bottom line

Source: The onEarth 10

Dewey Weber’s 22nd Street Cutback Becomes History Written In Bronze – the Full Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5420ENg7o

The World’s First Utility-Scale Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System. Located off Toronto Island, Canada, Hydrostor converts electricity into air and stores it underwater. When electricity is needed, the process is reversed, sending electricity back to the grid.

Source: Hydrostor

https://vimeo.com/62745942

Crab invasions, tropical visitors, and massive marine die-offs. What’s going on in the Pacific?

Source: Starved by the Sea?

Tracing Raymond Chandler’s early days in L.A.

Source: Looking for Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles : Longreads Blog

Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross

Source: Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross

Source: Win a guitar from Loog / Boing Boing

Biarritz Doctors Can Now Prescribe Surfing To Treat Illnesses

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

The 1960s fashion is far different from the fashion and makeup styles in the earlier decades. The 1960s introduced the mod look. In this era, the glamorous 1960s makeup pays emphasis on the eyes and little less on the other parts of the face.

Source: How to get a 1960s Makeup Look | 1960s Fashion Style

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Chitarra Elettrica Meazzi Mustang – Il Calascione Artisti Liutai

at Praia de S. Pedro Estoril in late November

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

The chemical sprayed on the 2010 BP oil spill may not have helped crucial petroleum-munching microbes get rid of the slick, a new study suggests.

Source: Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill

The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth

Source: Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever | EcoInternet – Earth Blog

https://vimeo.com/47489302

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGT3zxXprn0

The Global Wave Conference – The Global Enviro-Surf Community Converges on Cornwall & London

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WASHINGTON (AP) — You can’t say we haven’t been warned. The upcoming climate summit in Paris is just the latest chapter in the surprisingly long history of grappling with global warming, a history that began with the discovery…

Source: Upcoming climate talks just latest chapter in a long history

https://vimeo.com/44836656

Throughout the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. But by 1990, the company had begun an about-face.

Source: How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research – Los Angeles Times

Millions of people around the world live in “energy poverty,” including 15-year-old Hannah Herbst’s pen pal in Ethiopia.

Source: This Ninth Grader Invented A Device That Harvests Power From Ocean Waves

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story

Source: Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months

…an area roughly the size of Maryland—drifted into the Caribbean. So much of this floating brown algae has been washing ashore that beaches are positively blanketed in stinky, rotting piles that are more than a few feet deep.

Source: Formerly pristine Caribbean beaches are blanketed in stinky, rotting piles of seaweed

George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate

Source: The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world | Art and design | The Guardian

German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides a speed run display on a massive wave at Praia do Norté in Portugal on Tuesday

Source: German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides huge wave in Portugal – video | Sport | The Guardian

Source: Giant sculptures made entirely of beach waste to make you rethink plastic use

Thousands of the fires raging through the forests of Indonesia were deliberately started to clear land for industrial use. The results have been deadly

Source: Setting a country alight: Indonesia’s devastating forest fires are manmade | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian

https://vimeo.com/44647548

It’s our time to act. Boldly and bravely. It starts with 24 Hours of Reality: The World Is Watching. 24hoursofreality.org #WhyImWatching

Source: 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching | Climate Reality

The findings follow a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study two weeks ago that said the world is in the midst of a third global coral bleaching event.

Source: How we are all contributing to the destruction of coral reefs: Sunscreen – The Washington Post