It works pretty well as an elegy for everything else, too.
Source: As glaciers literally crumble around him, a pianist plays an elegy for the Arctic – Vox
The use of valuable agricultural resources for the production of snacks and sodas means less fertile land and clean water is available to grow nutritious food for local communities.
Source: This Infographic Shows How Only 10 Companies Control All the World’s Brands
An obscure 30-year-old treaty has landed thousands of Micronesians in poverty and homelessness in Hawaii.
Source: America’s Real Migrant Crisis Is the One You’ve Never Heard Of | Mother Jones
Brazilian Ricardo Stuckert accidentally stumbled on to the tribe after his helicopter was diverted
Source: Photographer captures images of uncontacted Amazon tribe | World news | The Guardian
Solar power becoming world’s cheapest form of electricity production, analysts say
There’s more in common between indigenous and board culture than you might think.
Source: New Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibit fuses indigenous, skateboarding culture | Metro Winnipeg
Study shows down-the-drain disposal is not a major source of pharmaceutical pollution
Quelle: Drugs in the Water? Don’t Blame the Students | Lab Manager
A spate of extreme warmth is linked to climate change, and may lead to shrinking ice coverage and even more warming in the region, scientists said.
Source: Spiking Temperatures in the Arctic Startle Scientists
Video: Chuns Reef, December Day 2016
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Around 2005 or 2006, I spotted something on craigslist that I wanted and agreed to meet up at the guy’s house. When he told me his address, I was shocked – it was a less than 3 minute drive from my house and he had, to say the least, a large and impressive collection of guitars and amplifiers. This was pretty odd to find in our neighborhood and we hit it off immediately.I don’t recall exactly what I was buying (or selling), but what I do remember is that he kept putting guitars in my hands to check out, many of which weren’t even for sale – we were just geeking out and he was happy to share.I recall two guitars from that day that really moved me: one was a 1982 AVRI Fullerton 50’s Strat that must have been played for hours in damp & smokey bars nightly for years – it was far more beat than most actual 50’s Strats I’ve ever seen. The second one was a 1955 Gibson ES-295 that had been refinished in Sonic Blue:
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Broadcast targeted speakers of language still spoken by 4 million Peruvians, symbolically ending centuries of marginalisation
Video: Lanka Daze
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Show this cartoon to anyone who doubts we need huge action on climate change – Vox
Farmed Salmon – One of The Most Toxic Foods in the World – CHere1st
Incoming president Donald Trump’s climate change denial has environmentalists worried. But California is proving that local efforts can achieve real progress – independent of Washington.
Source: California to trump federal plans with local climate action
Ten years of effort finally paid off for Las Vegas. The city government has gone entirely green, and 200 more cities want to do the same.
Source: Las Vegas’s city government is now powered by 100% renewable energy, and more cities will follow
Source: In 1906, He Snaps A Quick Photo. What He Captures? Chilling…
Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
Source: Finding North America’s lost medieval city
Impact of dams on climate change has been underestimated, researchers warn, as rotting vegetation creates 25% more methane than previously thought
Tesla’s new line of energy-harvesting roof tiles are a key part of Elon Musk’s plan to make solar sexy.
Source: Tesla Unveils its New Line of Camouflaged Solar Panels
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The truth of what happened on Christmas Day at Lake Okeechobee between the Seminoles and U.S. forces is not something you’ll read about in textbooks.
Source: The Seminole Christmas Gift of Freedom – Indian Country Media Network
A Reuters analysis of blood lead-test results across the U.S. finds thousands of communities with poisoning rates above those seen in Flint, Michigan
Source: Reuters finds lead levels higher than Flint’s in thousands of locales
Scientists say they are concerned at the rapid rate at which methane is gathering in the atmosphere.
Source: Methane surge needs ‘urgent attention’ – BBC News
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Temperatures in parts of the Arctic are expected to rise above 0C for the second winter in a row
Source: Ice-melting temperatures forecast for Arctic midwinter | Environment | The Guardian
Wißt ihr wie ihr im Longboardbusiness in kürzester Zeit eine Million Euro nach Hause bringt? Nein? Ganze einfach: Investiert einfach zwei Millionen. Mit Glück bleibt dann eine Million übrig. Das nicht alles immer nur fun sport ist, bekommen derzeit die amerkikanischen Hersteller zu spüren. Etliche Firmen sind in unruhige Fahrwasser geraten und kämpfen um das …
Source: Lobo Wheels – longboard wheels – 40inch Longboardmagazin
This handsome and heartfelt documentary takes us into the world of the Gaza Strip’s surfing enthusiasts, and reveals a formidable resilience pulsing within a beleaguered population.
Source: Gaza Surf Club
Horace Poolaw’s photography is unearthed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
Source: A Rare Insider’s View of Native American Life in Mid-20th-Century Oklahoma
Young ripper Santi Domingorena is probably one of the best groms out there on the Island. He has a great ability to make everything seem much easier than it is.
Source: Santi Domingorena – A secret spot on the Island – Longboard Magazine Europe
Very Cool: Heat Pump Water Heaters Save Energy and Money | NRDC
At 88, Morricone is a towering presence in film history. As he celebrates 60 years in music, the Italian composer talks shoots, scores and the masterpieces we missed
Source: Drips, pop and Dollars: the music that made Ennio Morricone | Film | The Guardian
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Logging With Love / Norway
The majority of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in the soil. If anthropogenic warming stimulates the loss of this carbon to the atmosphere, it could drive further planetary warming.
Source: Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming : Nature : Nature Research
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Video: the Island Escape
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“The political parties come and go but the values of the regional cultures are always at play.”
Source: This map shows the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures
Exclusive: In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change
Our waters have borne the brunt of global warming for decades, but dying corals, extreme weather, and plummeting fish stocks are signs that it can handle no more.
Companies and individuals have a duty to recycle everything possible and to create and use more sustainable packaging
After many young people fled in the face of worsening droughts, tropical storms, coral bleaching, coastal inundation and flooding, some are choosing to return
Source: Despite climate change exodus, some Marshall Islanders head back home | World news | The Guardian
Video: Band of Frequencies – Men of Wood & Foam
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Source: Santa Monica’s lost Googie diner may reopen
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Faces of Longboarding ist ein Projekt von Andre Kniekamp. Mit dem Buch hat er ein analoges Portrait der Szene geschaffen. Vor dem Verkaufsstart hatten wir ein Interview it ihm gemacht. Dieses wurde in der Ausgabe vier der 40inch veröffentlicht. Hier das Interview. Bestellungen für „unter den Weihnachtsbaum“ können unter der Webseite http://facesoflongboarding.tumblr.com/ durchgeführt werden. Hier der …
Source: Weihnachtsgeschenk gesucht? Faces of Longboarding verschenken! – 40inch Longboardmagazin
Despite a recent victory at Standing Rock, water protectors are preparing to continue the fight under Trump’s administration.
Source: It’s Official: Donald Trump Supports the Dakota Access Pipeline
The story of the blind, homeless composer named Moondog is too weird not to be true
Source: The weird and true story of Moondog – Macleans.ca
Indigo Skate Camp in Rural South Africa | National Geographic Short Film Showcase
Video: Aidan Cashin – Way South NSW
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When remote Inuit met the mad, desperate remnants of the Franklin Expedition, they couldn’t rule out that they had been invaded by demons
Source: ‘They’re not human’: How 19th-century Inuit coped with a real-life invasion of the ‘walking dead’
The Arctic is super-hot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia.
Source: The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends – The Washington Post
The prehistoric discovery places humans in the area 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
French electronic music producer Jean-Jacques Perrey died Friday at age 87 following a bout with lung cancer, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Perrey was hailed for his work with early electronic keyboards, particularly Moog synthesizers, pioneering a lighthearted, space-age sound that continues to resonate in contemporary electronic pop. He also acquired notable admirers in hip-hop, particularly for his song “E.V.A.,” which has been sampled by artists including A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, and, later, Pusha T. Perrey released his first albums with collaborator Gershon Kingsley in the 1960s. (The Beastie Boys would later borrow the title of the duo’s 1966 debut, The In Sound From Way Out!, for a 1996 instrumental compilation.) Perrey and Kingsley’s best-known song, “Baroque Hoedown,” long served as soundtrack to the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney theme parks. Perrey went on to release two dozen more albums, many of which—Moog Indigo, Moog Generation, Moog Mig Mag Moog, Moog
Source: R.I.P. Jean-Jacques Perrey, Moog Composer Extraordinaire
New Melody Queen model by Bunting guitars
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A newer understanding has explained the apparently odd behaviour of southern ice.
Quelle: Now the Antarctic is melting too – News from Al Jazeera
An international science team recently completed a 4,000-mile expedition to learn more about the long-term fate of two of the world’s largest subsea oil spills, the 1979 Ixtoc-I and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon. The 40-day Gulf of Mexico voyage continued their 2015 field campaign, contributing to a multi-year Gulf-wide analysis of these oil spills and the marine environment’s response and recovery.
Quelle: OneGulf Voyage Gathers Unprecedented Marine Samples for Two Oil Spills
Jake Phelps, the legend behind ‘Thrasher Magazine.’
Source: From the Mag Himself: Opinions on Skating’s Most Opinionated Magazine
Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?
Ancient Greeks may have built China’s famous Terracotta Army – 1,500 years before Marco Polo
Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins
Science Explains How Staying Near Water Can Change Our Brains
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity
The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Was Not in Orlando
Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders