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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

Links for 7/6/25

How Danny Hess Crafts Wooden Surfboards

Scientists Used Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan to Japan

Free tool helps dodge grant rejections as federal censorship expands

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AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

Lost art of coconut shell navigation: How Pacific islanders crossed oceans

Chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, study finds

Tech continues to be political

Lithium mine’s approval violates international rights agreement, says Human Rights Watch

Top Economist Exposes Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change

Capital will continue on its path, indifferent to the ruins it leaves

A brief history of the recycling lies told by the plastics industry

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

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Links for 3/8/25

The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 2: Non-Renewable Natural Resources

European alternatives for popular services

“I, a proud member of the U.S. military, won’t obey illegal orders to attack our allies.”

Future Climate Risk Map

Explore Degrowth – Values & Principles

Longtermism: „An odd and peculiar ideology“

Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons

The Enshittocene: How the Internet Got Worse in the 2010s

Ocean Ramsey on what to do in a shark attack

Puncturing the Hubris of Economics

B.C. government affirms Haida Nation title over all of Haida Gwaii in draft agreement

Decades of Public Messages about Recycling in the US Have Crowded Out More Sustainable Ways to Manage Waste

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Links for 1/4/25

AI is Shattering Hope of a Net Zero Future

Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, ‘impacting the entire world for centuries to come,’ leading climate scientists warn

AI ‘street Photography’ Isn’t Photography: What We Lose By Simulating Experience

From Marine Reserve to Military Base: Washington and Ecuador’s Quiet Plans for the Galapagos Islands

New York Lightboard Record

Remote island trapped in ‘vortex’ of plastic — and they’re not the ones to blame

Concrete Wave Vol. 13 No. 2 Fall 2014

Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

Ivan Illich on how technologies create radical monopolies

How Degrowth Can Save The World

Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman | TGS 131

College Lecture Series – Neil Postman – “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”

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Links for 10/20/24

Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths

Holding the California Oil Industry Accountable

Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms

A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

History of Hobie Skateboards (Explained) | Concrete Waves

What Happened To Longboarding? (Industry Report)

What Greenland’s nine-day mega-tsunami tells us about climate change

‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farms

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Locals in Imsouane under threat by mega resort development

Kapitän Harmsen – Adios, Kopenhagen!

Shocking Wake-Up Call: First Marine Fish Declared Extinct Due to Humans

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Links for 5/26/24

Surf music has been infiltrated by artificial intelligence, and it’s probaby going to get worse.

Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco w/ Gil Duran

The Strange World Of… Joe Meek

Here’s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe

CLASSIC? Neil Blender, Jason Jessee, Jay Adams, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero Mini Ramp sesh

1970s skateboarding London-style. Hot Wheels

Scientist identify the phonetic alphabet of whales

How Not to Act in an Emergency

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ – Carbon Brief

Epic 4-hour documentary about YouTube plagiarists sends them scurrying desperately away

Sun, sea and rock’n’roll: how Torremolinos got its groove back

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