Can You Actually Run a Surf Event When It’s Dead Flat?
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Download this 100% free Summer Lines Icon EPS vector pack with icons of the beach, summer activities, clothes, food, weather and events.
Source: Summer Line Icon Pack Free Vector EPS Download | JUST™ Creative
Do you remember Bamboobee? The regrettably-named company first released a jig and bamboo tube set back in 2014, promising to make the DIY-minded bike lover into a bona fide bike builder. It featured a flat packing jig with a cool design, but I had reservations about the frame sizing, as
Source: Build A Bamboo Bike In Under 5 Hours
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China plans undersea lab, 3km down / Boing Boing
Eigentlich soll Palmöl im Kraftstoff das Klima schützen. Nach Ansicht von Umweltschützern ist das Gegenteil der Fall.
Source: Biokraftstoffe: Europa giert nach Palmöl – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Dwindling of Arctic’s oldest ice since 1990
Six more islands have large swaths of land, and villages, washed into sea as a result of ‘dramatic impact of climate change’ on the Solomon Islands
Source: Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits
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Warning against dangers to “workers, communities, and our environment,” more than 450 environmental advocacy groups called on Congress to reject the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Source: ‘Free Trade’ Will Kill Climate Movement, Hundreds of Groups Warn Congress
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Skate legend Tommy Guerrero was one of the biggest names in skateboarding in the 1980’s. As one of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta’s famous skate team, Guerrero would go on to head up…
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Source: Individually-shrinkwrapped potatoes are why we must destroy capitalism / Boing Boing
A Walk in the Dead Woods
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Algal bloom ‘of biblical proportions’ has led to protests and health emergency as concerns raised over dumping of rotting salmon in ocean
Source: Toxic ‘red tide’ in Chile prompts investigation of salmon farming | World news | The Guardian
A Tiny Spock Leaning on a 1964 Buick Riviera Is the Best Hot Wheels Car Ever
Australia’s natural wonder is in mortal danger. Bleaching caused by climate change has killed almost a quarter of its coral this year and many scientists believe it could be too late for the rest. Using exclusive photographs and new data, a Guardian special report investigates how the reef has been devastated – and what can be done to save it
Source: The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare | Environment | The Guardian
World’s first grid-connected tidal array almost complete
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Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: N? Hulu Ali‘i | LACMA
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This week we’re honoured to have the legend of TWANG drop into the Henhouse, Mr. Duane Eddy himself! For those of you who don’t know him, Duane Eddy revolutionized the sound of the electric guitar and became the king of “twang” with his trusty Gretsch guitar in hand.
Source: Episode 11 – Duane Eddy (Part 1)
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To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever
Source: To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever
The new, unelected government is reversing progressive measures by President Dilma Rousseff by taking over Indigenous land and attacking labor laws.
Source: Brazil Coup Govt Moves to Change Definition of Slavery | News | teleSUR English
Last week two activities were executed: The presentation of a booklet on penal environmental legislation, and the organization of an introductory course on environmental law.
Source: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Promotes Environmental Law in Galapagos – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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In California today, a grand jury indicted the Plains All-American Pipeline and one of the oil company’s employees on criminal charges over the massive 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County.
Source: Texas oil firm indicted in massive 2015 oil spill off coast of Santa Barbara, CA
You Know You Should Use Sunscreen. But Are You Using It Right?
Fort McMurray and the Fires of Climate Change
10 Buildings That Prove Solar Can Be Beautiful
Melting ice sheets changing the way the Earth wobbles on its axis, says Nasa
Scientists have found a way to recycle sunlight, and it could cause a solar-power revolution
Story of cities #3: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation
Everything You Should Know About Sound
The Case For Optimism On Climate Change
Pickled Onions Are the Perfect DIY Gift for the Cocktail Lover in Your Life
Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) Foundation Press Release: 8 October 2015, Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20)
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Source: The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll
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In a rare move to shun tourism profits for environmental protection, 10 popular dive sites have been shut down in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis
Source: Thailand closes dive sites over coral bleaching crisis | Environment | The Guardian