In an effort to make plastic drinking straws extinct, Chelsea Briganti and Leigh Ann Tucker of Loliware have invented the ‘world’s first edible, hypercompostable, marinedegradable straw.’ They hope their eco-friendly Lolistraw will replace the ‘500M plastic straws’ that they say are currently being used in the United States every day.

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Within The Context Of All Contexts: The Rewiring Of Our Relationship To Music

After The Vinyl Revival, The Vinyl-Playing Jukebox Is Back

These 11 innovations will tackle the causes of ocean plastic pollution, not just the symptoms

Pacific Beach locals – another day in San Diego

The story behind Cecilia Ann

Scotty Moore’s Royal Legacy: Bearing Witness at the Birth of Rock and Roll

‘Soul-crushing’ video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis, experts say

‘It’s a no-brainer’: are hydrogen cars the future?

6 Global Conflicts That Have Flared Up Over Oil and Gas

Profile of musician Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton

Bellingham Flag

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From prudish Victorians to arrows in the eye – 10 things from history everyone gets wrong

Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan

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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago

The plastic tide is a symptom of a sickness in society: Surfers Agains – Gather Outdoors

‘If there’s an ocean, maybe there’s surf’: Bruce Brown on making The Endless Summer

Ensuring Climate Data Remains Public

Lance, Miki and Bruce Brown’s brilliant voice-over – the set-up of The Endless Summer

Declaración sobre la Visita a EE. UU., por el Profesor Philip Alston, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza extrema y los derechos humanos*

Why Glitter Must Be Banned | Alternet

Cheapest electricity on the planet is Mexican solar power at 1.77¢/kWh – record 1¢/kWh coming in 2019, sooner | Electrek

Pachucos and Teddy Boys: How Generations of Youth in the U.S. and U.K. Borrowed From Each Other

Benjamin Munday the Sheer Joy of Moondog

Sad 7-Foot Tall Clown Sings “Pinball Wizard” in the Style of Johnny Cash, and Other Hits by Roy Orbison, Cheap Trick & More

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Help Beat Arctic Oil In Court!

A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.

Source: Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? – BBC News

Photos: Malick Sidibe Shows Mali’s Youth With A Groovy ‘Twist’

Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong

Seaside Casino: 1905

How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine

New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout

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Sustainable Package Design is a Must to Tackle Pollution Crisis

Barracuda and surfer dude… 1964 Plymouth press release photo

New evacuations ordered as California Thomas wildfire rages

After You Finish Your Drink, You Can Eat This New Edible Straw

The Downtown LA that just won’t quit

The Fight Against The Tiny Plastic Pellets Choking Our Oceans

Ice Apocalypse | Grist

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Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness

Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents

A Beautiful Pandemonium

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem

This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas

The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online

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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard

Roots vs the Future

Stanley Black Sophisticat in Cuba 1958

The New People (1969 Promo)

Mapuche Leader Moira Millán: “We Mapuche people don’t fight for land ownership but for a way of living on the land”

California wildfires: 120,000 forced to flee as blazes tear through south of state

Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem?

How 5 African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene

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DownHill SkateBoarding Freeride Lacets Montvernier

This British gent lives life like it’s the 1940s / Boing Boing

Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?

This skate company is turning guns into skateboards

Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they’re delicious

Bartend Against: Helping Communities Across the Globe

“Pacific Vibrations” 1970 “Brave Ulysses”, Ashish & Randy’s Music

Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties

The problem with nuclear waste

Source: House Preparing to Sacrifice Right Whales for Big Oil

MCS joins 150 organisations backing call to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging | Marine Conservation Society