Santa Monica Pier is LA County’s most polluted beach – Curbed LA

Hawaii is considering creating a universal basic income

Catch of the Week: Surf Shacks – A surfer can never leave the sea behind!

Source: The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

Brian Wilson talks to 6 Musict about playing Pet Sounds in its entirety for the last time

Source: BBC Radio 6 Music

India’s Biggest Skateboard Park In This Village Is Challenging The Caste System And Other Odds

A Tip of the Hat to Skip Frye

Source: Pacific Longboarder

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Sand will exit this beach mat and it will not return

Source: Boing Boing

Source: Woody’s Smorgasburger | Old L.A. Restaurants

Interview: John Severson | The Surfers Journal

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Why peeing on a jellyfish sting is actually a terrible idea

Source: Boing Boing

Bartenders at TikiCat in Westport were trained by some of the legends in the tiki bartending business.

Source: These young KC bartenders are aiming to be ‘tiki superheroes’ | The Kansas City Star

Frank Lloyd Wrights Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival

Here it Comes: Another Safe Harbor For Digital Services | The Trichordist

Five mid-century gems in unlikely architecture haven Fort Wayne

What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

Activists Sue to Block Plans to Bury 3.6 Million Pounds of Nuclear Waste Near California Beach

Surfing Publication and Newsagency, we provide surfers all the news, Board Buyers Guide, Contest Reports, Big Wave Events, Airshows, Image Galleries, Shapers, Schools and Camps directories, Surfing magazine, Learning to Surf tips

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Open source breeders hope to preserve a handful of important varieties for the farms of the future.

Source: For Seed Rebels, Saving Life’s Building Blocks Has New Urgency | Civil Eats

Peruvian songstress Yma Sumac, a pioneer of exotic, was a legend. That legend was built in Los Angeles.

Source: On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood – LA Times

“We’re being overwhelmed by our waste.”

Source: How The Oceans Became Choked With Plastic

The Archivist: Wild At Heart | The Surfers Journal

Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal | Homestead Guru

Tiki bar site Critiki has named Portland’s Hale Pale as the third best tiki bar in the entire world—for the second year in the row.

Source: Portland Bar Named the Number 3 Tiki Bar in the World – Willamette Week

André Staltz – An off-grid social network

Il compositore, direttore d’orchestra e arrangiatore Alessandro Alessandroni è morto a Roma. Aveva da poco compiuto 92 anni. Celebre il suo

Source: Addio ad Alessandro Alessandroni, il ‘fischio’ western più famoso del mondo – Musica – Spettacoli – Repubblica.it

Dublin’s Science Gallery hosted an evening of talks by Sea for Society featuring people whose lives revolve around the ocean.

Source: Sea for Society: Surfers Against Sewage and the Science of Ireland’s Water – HeadStuff

A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.

Source: Ocean might swallow California sooner than you think – Orange County Register

Nuclear shelters: Japanese civilians are installing tropical island-themed bunkers to prepare for a nuclear war — Quartz

Defend the Sacred: How Could the Peace Movement Prevail?

Red Bull CEO’s Breitbart-Idolizing Politics

The Jersey Shore circa 1901. “Driveway and beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: The Sandpeeper: 1901 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

L.A.’s Concrete River Gets Real | NRDC

Going Lala | The Surfers Journal

US Navy schedules latest war games exercise in Gulf of Alaska, without due regard for environmental or community concerns.

Source: War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!): The U.S. Navy’s Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.

Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states

California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.

Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism

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Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York

Source: Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York / Boing Boing

Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal

Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed en route to Australia | Science | The Guardian

In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.

Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA

Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism

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Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.

Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Who was Australia’s first surfer? A century-old tale of sailors, spectators and a Duke | Sport | The Guardian

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living | PolitiFact California

Source: Bill Campbell-Weird-Oh’s artist. in Final Farewells Forum

Mozambique Surfing travel guide Mozambique surf spot + forum for surfing in Mozambique

It seems to me as if prophecies of Trump have been built into the culture, perhaps by the aliens who seeded us on Earth

Source: Full of nuts, watching a 70s western, I saw America’s future… | Stewart Lee | Opinion | The Guardian

Steve McQueen’s long missing ‘Bullitt’ Mustang found / Boing Boing

I pledge to stand in resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on America’s clean air, clean water, climate, wildlife, civil rights, reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, and freedom of speech and religion.

Source: Pledge of Resistance to Donald Trump’s Assault on America’s Environment, Democracy and Civil Rights

Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon

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Defend California from Federal and Civil Rights Rollbacks | NRDC

After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame

Source: Did Pinochet-era deregulation cause Chile’s worst-ever wildfires? | World news | The Guardian

Mozambique Surf Guide | GoSurfAfrica

“Awful,” says writer and painter Ben Shattuck – but in the good way.

Source: What’s It Like to Be the Artist-in-Residence at America’s Least Visited National Park? | NRDC

Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts

“I’m glad I packed extra anti-depressants on this trip.” – Mark Cunningham

Source: Jack Johnson’s Film On Ocean Plastic Pollution | The Inertia

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Source: How Surfing Was Brought to Santa Cruz By Three Teenage Hawaiian Princes