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

English speakers please use an AI tool.

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

Seeking Full Employment Without Falling Prey to Neoliberal Traps

‘License to hide’: Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar

The sea is rising — and the clock is ticking

Two men are airlifted from the middle of the ocean after a tiny but deadly jellyfish stings them

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

Vintage Surfboard Collector Club @ The Boardroom Show 2023

From Morocco to Cuba, this Guy is Documenting the World’s Endangered Cinemas

How cars ruin wild animals’ lives

Dead before arrival: The governance of stratospheric aerosol injection

Australia faces unprecedented grassfires next summer ‘supercharged’ by global heating

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

“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

Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’

Traditional Development – #6 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series

A shocking number of birds are in trouble

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

America’s Radioactive Secret

Refreshments were once served from a giant owl-shaped building in Long Beach, California

@justinebateman wants to see AI contract terms in actor agreements and music folk should be checking, too

Fish Are Not Insentient Dullards

Mexico Could Lead the World On Solar Energy?—?And Why it Needs To

Carl Sagan: a lovely and powerful new short film and automaton installation about the urgency of environmental action (video)

6 things to know about heat pumps, a climate solution in a box

The Animals on the beach in California – a world away from Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northern England

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

To Fight Coastal Erosion, Design a Bespoke Artificial Reef

Monsieur Hulot’s Parisian House

We can’t afford to choose adaptation over cutting emissions – suggesting otherwise is dangerous

Déplacer Le Silence With Lola Mignot

Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas

Last Waves Legends

Dancers performing “The Nitty Gritty” from the The Judy Garland Show (1964).

Why Grassroots Music Promotion Is Reaching Crisis Point

Tom Morey, the inventor of the bodyboard, passes away at 86

Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling

Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before

The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba

The Historical Narrative About Geronimo Is All Wrong

Flower power: how one company is beautifying the wind turbine

Stolen “Bruce’s Beach” to be returned

Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming

Born Into Rebellion: How Dignidad y Resistencia Merge Music and Liberation

West Papuans: The Forgotten People

Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen

“Surfa Sam” – Australia’s first skateboard company returns after 36 years in hibernation

Native Land

Space-Cowboys: What Internet history tells us about the inevitable shortcomings of a tech-bro led Space Race

Global coral cover has fallen by half since 1950s, analysis finds

Guided tour through the exhibition ‘Doggerland’ at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea

a congress to decolonize conservation

Marseille, France
September 2-3, 2021