Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

Links for 3/16/24

Inside The Star Club Hafenpolizei 1962

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

The modern CEO job is completely broken — but AI could make executives useful again

The Unspoken Lie

Riley Balsawood now in Italy – and available through Europe

Carbon Offsets Have a Fatal Flaw

Crisis in the Amazon: Will the largest rainforest in the world survive? – BBC World Service

The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Weaponizing the First Amendment to Silence Its Critics

The Muslim WWII Heroine that Time Forgot

Charles Fréger

Evidence of hominins building wooden structures half a million years ago

“VC qanon” and the radicalization of the tech tycoons – Anil Dash

Links for 1/27/24

Microplastics, like Asbestos, Can Kill

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Karl von den Steinen

Taiwanese indigenous peoples

20 Major US Cities Most and Least Threatened by Climate Change

Get hip to teenage antics and terms with this handy guide

Native Land Digital

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Climate change solutions need to keep Indigenous knowledge at centre of approach

New Stan Lee documentary raises age-old question: Who created the Marvel Universe?

Bandcamp reportedly union-busting by pressuring record labels

Links for 11/4/23

The Environmental Footprint of Bitcoin Mining Across the Globe: Call for Urgent Action

The Dirty Secret Behind the Hydrogen Hype

Why is the world ignoring Acapulco? | Will Bunch Newsletter

The urgent need for methane literacy

Envy’s hidden hand

What will happen to the Greenland ice sheet if we miss our global warming targets

Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas

US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling

DIY Dad Buys a Derelict Fixer-Upper, Restores the Forgotten 1920s General Store He Finds Inside It

Links for 10/1/23

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

Links for 9/9/23

The Black Cloud + audio book

Die schwarze Wolke

‘They Will Never Change on Their Own’: Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions

‘Pulp Fiction’ music consultants open up about the friendship, mixtapes that helped start a soundtrack revolution

Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?

Australian authorities warn locals to stay away from the mysterious metal cylinder on the beach

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

Tiki Mugs at Mount Longboards (New Zealand)

Finding the First Americans

Links for 7/15/23

Climate Denialism Has Burnt To a Crisp

Who is responsible for the climate crisis?

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity

‘The Job Is Going to Die’: Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry

Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline – Surf’s First Wave

Shifted Banks | Slade Lawrence

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate

Infants Exposed to Excessive Screen Time Show Differences in Brain Function Beyond Eight Years of Age

Step Back in Time: The Forgotten Family Shoe Store Closed for 40 Years

Links for 6/24/23

Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

A Deep Dive Into Polarizer Skateboards

‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat

Chris Isaak’s Former Beach Property Becoming a Public Park

Desire to Kill the Streetcar

Rapid changes in cryosphere demand urgent, coordinated action

Rising seas challenge modern notions of property lines

Ever Wondered Why Americans of the 1930s and 40s Spoke with an Accent?

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery

Links for 6/17/23

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).