Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

140-year-old ocean heat tech could supply islands with limitless energy

How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet warms

Winold Reiss and the Congo Room— 1st Tiki Bar ? A Tiki Bar before they were called that

Elon Musk Unmasked: Shaping the Future (Part 4)

What can a software developer do about climate change?

The climate threat to California’s stored nuclear waste

Brave Kiwi woman’s morning swim with curious orcas

For Sale! Kitschy Time Capsule Pad, Perfect for Drinking Martinis All Day Long

‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

Indigenous nation in US seeks to block billion-dollar port project in Canada

Two Fed Up Redditors Launched a Site to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord

Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir

Extreme weather in a changing climate

Let’s redefine “Good Surfer”

New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Drought in Amazon reveals rocks with ancient human faces

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

The Videogame Industry is Larger Than Film and TV Combined, Why Aren’t They Paying Musicians Fairly?

A deaf whale is a dead whale

New vehicles a “privacy nightmare” where you consent to carmakers collecting data on behavioral, biological, even sexual activity

Why moving people out of harm’s way isn’t as easy as it might sound

New Zealand becomes first country to ban thin plastic bags for fresh produce from supermarkets

China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

And now the weather: Cloudy with scattered showers of plastic

The Real History of the Luddites (Audio)

They ride exact replicas of Tom Blake’s 1920s wood surfboards

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

A Warning On the Future of Music: with Author Ted Gioia

Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on

Signs directing public access to Malibu beach only last eight days

Up to 70% of California beaches could disappear by end of the century

Meet the Surfing Girls of Iran

Nan Madol

Exxon just made record profits, also knew even more about climate change than we realized

Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors Around the World

Forever chemicals at former Nasa lab are leaking into LA River, say watchdogs

The State of Berlin After Hitler

Scientists still unable to identify bizarre golden egg found at the bottom of the ocean

Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate

The Cognitive Dissonance Of Climate Collapse

Murder Offsets (permalink)

A shocking number of birds are in trouble

Stars could be invisible within 20 years as light pollution brightens night skies

Recycling can release huge quantities of microplastics, study finds

The Real Life of Your Selfie

Cities reviving downtowns by converting offices to housing

See amazing Northwest Coast Native artwork from Canada

Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck

Earth now way outside “safe operating space for humanity,” says new report

Even Dimming The Sun Wouldn’t Save Antarctica’s Ice Now, Scientists Say

The history of rock and roll poster art

Werner Voss’s Rock’n’Roll Museum

Joyce Carol Vincent: How could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

Column: Is the reign of the surf thugs at Lunada Bay finally coming to an end? Looks like it

Snoop Asks in @hypebot: “How can you get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?”

How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics

Insurer cites “growing catastrophe exposure” as it stops new sales in California

Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires

Carbon Cash Machine: Meet the Investors Running – and Destroying – Our World

National Science Foundation’s new center connects Indigenous wisdom with Western science | Boing Boing

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

Saving the Planet One Plant-Based Burger at a Time: 6 Environmental Benefits of Veganism

Why the Humble City Bus Is the Key to Improving US Public Transit

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

The Tielman Brothers History

AI and the American Smile

Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

The Guy who Shrunk his 1950s Hometown

Exxon Predicted Oil Burning Role in Climate Change

Expert Panel Warns Journalists of Coordinated Climate Disinformation Campaigns

Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

Investors Start Thinking About Underpricing of Climate Risk

The Hodaddy site is back! Andrew Crockett’s comprehensive deep-dive for surf history buffs

Removing carbon from Earth’s atmosphere may not ‘fix’ climate change

“VC qanon” and the radicalization of the tech tycoons – Anil Dash

Justice for Hawaii?

Hawaii’s historic town of Lahaina in Maui devastated by wildfire (video)

Cory Doctorow’s new book on beating big tech at its own game

Bleaching

“100% coral mortality” found in coral reef restoration site off Florida as ocean temperatures soar

Bad news for air taxis, and here I was looking forward to fewer microplastics from tire abrasion.