Links for 6/15/16

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


 

California Primaries


 

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


 

Its Official: US International Trade Commission Predicts Negligible Economic Benefits From TPP | Techdirt


 

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Links for 6/12/16

Ferry Surfing


 

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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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Links for 6/11/16

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…

Source: Skateboards and Guitar Chords: Tommy Guerrero Reflects on a life of Skating and Music Making | blurredvisionary


 

Visit the post for more.

Source: Individually-shrinkwrapped potatoes are why we must destroy capitalism / Boing Boing


 

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A Walk in the Dead Woods


 

Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear

Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear


 

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

Links for 6/9/16

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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Links for 6/5/16

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

Links for 6/1/16

Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) Foundation Press Release: 8 October 2015, Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20)

Source: Vulnerable Twenty Group V20 – Founded


 

She influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless others, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her own right.

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


 

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Links for 5/30/16

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

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Silicon Valley father of four Damon McMillan has just put the finishing touches to his Seacharger boat and plans to set it off on a solo trip from the Californian coast down to Hawaii on May 30. The craft is designed to cut through the waves using only a motor powered by solar panels.

Source: Solar-powered boat ready to make 2,000 mile ocean voyage on its own


 

Women’s & Longboard Champs Crowned At the Australian Indigenous Titles


 

Grass in the park at the center of San Francisco gentrification debate is now for rent

Source: Grass in the park at the center of San Francisco gentrification debate is now for rent


 

Sinkhole discovery suggests humans were in Florida 14,500 years ago