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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 7/10/14

This Project Traps Plastic Junk Before It Reaches The Ocean And Turns It Into Floating Parks

Eco-Friendly Blackbird Clara Ukulele Boasts a Rich Sound within an Ekoa Composite Body

Coastal winds intensifying with climate change, study says

Falling in love with the world’s rarest records

Disneyland Fashion Shoot, 1961

The earliest photo of Paul McCartney and George Harrison together, ca. 1956-57

From Firewire to NevHouse: Sustainability, Technology and Surfing Serendipities

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, climate change, fashion, pollution, surfing, The Beatles, ukulele

Links for 7/9/14

The Beginning of a New Era: World’s First Wave Pool Opens

People’s Climate March

Forget The World Cup! Algeria Has Joined The International Surfing Association!

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

A Look at a Discotheque in Paris in 1963

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, africa, climate change, france, surfing

Links for 7/7/14

Double Barrel: Creating an Eco-Surf Village in Lobitos, Peru

California’s Thriving Surf Culture in the 60’s and 70’s

Easkey Britton at TEDx Dublin: How Surfing Can Improve Humanity

The Devolution Will Not Be Televised: A Simple Surfer Living Life Off The Grid

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, 1970s, california, hawai'i, peru, surfing

Links for 6/13/14

New volcanic island still erupting / Experts “Can’t understand why magma can be coming out for half a year”

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK

Some contemporary classical music that I actually like

The Seeds: Pushin’ too Hards – Documentary Trailer

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, asia, food, islands, japan, ocean, pacific, percussion, surfing

Links for 6/7/14

Blackwater Diving in Palau / Mark Thorpe / Gallery

Tell Australia: Coal and Coral Don’t Mix

Energy Department Bombshell: LNG Has No Climate Benefit For Decades, if Ever*

Climate change is the fight of our lives – yet we can hardly bear to look at it

“Dark Money” Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

Rick Griffin Sketching Haggerty’s

Surf The Most Fearless Surfer

Putting a Price Tag on Nature’s Defenses

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, asia, australia, climate change, islands, ocean, pacific, surfing, wildlife

Links for 5/29/14

June 8th is World Oceans DayTop 20 Beach Town Housing Markets

The Groovy Imitation Bands of 1960s Japanese Rock

Our minds are blown!

Boycott of luxury hotels owned by Brunei sultan grows

Only 40% of sewage gets treated in Rio de Janeiro

Kauai Is Called The Garden Island — Here’s Why (PHOTOS)

Why is wave power so far behind wind and solar?

Here’s what that huge fire in Alaska looks like from a NASA satellite

The sand dunes of Maine

Mega dry spell Spain’s worst in 150 years

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, alaska, brazil, climate change, hawai'i, japan, ocean

Links for 5/24/14

Stealing A Nation

Can tourism ever be sustainable? The Rainforest Alliance says, “Yes!”

Las Vegas Night, ca. 1960

A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, climate change, islands

Links for 5/11/14

WAVE PARK IN THE UK GETS FINAL APPROVALs

Ocean Acidification, Wildfires Are Taking Their Toll On The Pacific Northwest

Why we couldn’t care less about the natural world

Joe Meek’s Techniques: Recording Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore & Steve Howe

Plastic trash has gone where no man has gone before

Typhoon Haiyan was just the start – prepare for an ever stormier future

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, climate change, ocean, pollution, surfing, uk

Links for 4/29/14

Black & White Pictures of Daily Life in London in 1964

Ancient Native Americans came face to face with sabertooth cats

Promising Wave Energy Project Canceled off the Oregon Coast

Ro-Pat-In Electric Spanish

Green credentials of fracking ‘exaggerated’, says IPCC author

Chinese pollution: A shift in the wind

The Blue Hawaiian’s 20th anniversary show, thurs. May 1st, Hollywood, Ca.

The Eliminators and Riptides at Woody car show, San Pedro, Ca. Sat. May 17th

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, asia, china, england, guitar, photos, surf music, vintage

Link for 4/16/14

Streets of California in the 1960s

Lucky Cat S8 E2 Podcast – A Journey to Shangri-La

Esto Es Salinas: Spanish Longboarding At Its Finest

Surfing, Corona Del Mar, circa 1950s

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Color Photographs of Japan in 1950s-60s

Cambodia’s lost rock ’n’ roll

Why is Singapore a Hub of Online Piracy?

Are you Round Up Ready?

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, asia, cambodia, earth, japan, longboard, ocean, photos, surfing, vintage, wildlife
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