Links for 6/9/25

Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA

The New Military Industry Complex

Lifeblood For Pacific Islands Threatened As Warming Ocean Drives Tuna East

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

Ominous sea level report card for most U.S. coastal communities

Organised Crime: A Top Driver of Global Deforestation

Greenland fossil discovery stuns and worries scientists: “Don’t buy a beach house”

NYC Gangs 1954

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada, Expert Says

Indigenous-led organization breaks ground with revolutionary energy transition initiative: ‘It’s not a one size fits all’

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Links for 3/8/25

The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 2: Non-Renewable Natural Resources

European alternatives for popular services

“I, a proud member of the U.S. military, won’t obey illegal orders to attack our allies.”

Future Climate Risk Map

Explore Degrowth – Values & Principles

Longtermism: „An odd and peculiar ideology“

Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons

The Enshittocene: How the Internet Got Worse in the 2010s

Ocean Ramsey on what to do in a shark attack

Puncturing the Hubris of Economics

B.C. government affirms Haida Nation title over all of Haida Gwaii in draft agreement

Decades of Public Messages about Recycling in the US Have Crowded Out More Sustainable Ways to Manage Waste

Rouli-Roulant (video)

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“One of the very first skateboard films, directed by Claude Jutra in 1965. This documentary captures young skateboarders in search of freedom. As popular in the 1960s as it is today, skateboarding is a spectacle to behold. But a law prohibits it on the street.”

Directed by Claude Jutra – 1966

Links for 1/21/24

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023

A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts

Are UFOs Really Out There?

The Music Industry is Dying…and That’s a Good Thing

Frozen in Time: Inside Bangkok’s First Ever Department Store

Meet the former pilot working to reduce climate pollution from planes

South-east Australia marine heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale

‘They’re destroying us’: Indigenous communities fear toxic leaks from Canada oil industry

Big Oil’s favorite way to lie: paltering

Links for 11/19/23

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

140-year-old ocean heat tech could supply islands with limitless energy

How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet warms

Winold Reiss and the Congo Room— 1st Tiki Bar ? A Tiki Bar before they were called that

Elon Musk Unmasked: Shaping the Future (Part 4)

What can a software developer do about climate change?

The climate threat to California’s stored nuclear waste

Brave Kiwi woman’s morning swim with curious orcas

For Sale! Kitschy Time Capsule Pad, Perfect for Drinking Martinis All Day Long

‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

Indigenous nation in US seeks to block billion-dollar port project in Canada

Two Fed Up Redditors Launched a Site to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord

Dark City. The Real Los Angeles Noir

Links for 1/10/21

The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt


 

A Walk Along The Gaudy, Bawdy Pike


 

The Squires
Neil Young (middle) with his band the Squires and the Pontiac hearse he bought to tour. He named it Mortimer Hearseburg. (1964)


 

Artist Ed Ruscha’s Photos Showcased in New Getty Online Exhibit


 

Rare footage of Victoria’s first surfers in 1920 – “Surfing Hawaiian Redwood Boards at Lorne”


 

Where The Action Is 1965 – Pilot Episode

Supremes, 4 Seasons, Jan & Dean, Chad & Jeremy, Raiders


 

A dombra performance by a 23-year-old Kazakh musician in Lake Köbeituz, a salt lake in Kazakhstan that turns pink every several years.


 

How to Survive Encounters with Dangerous Animals