All the rattan and bamboo you can handle

Source: Inside LA’s Incredible New Tiki Palace – Eater LA

This mason jar might not be the most interesting picture on the site, but believe us when we say that looks can be deceiving, as what this jar contains is something very, very delicious. The jar is…

Source: DIY Pineapple Rum

The century-old faces that would become America, in color.

Source: Astounding colorized photos reveal the faces and fashions of Ellis Island immigrants

The Interior Department says Native Hawaiians can now choose whether to form a unified government, which could eventually enter into formal government-to-government relations with the U.S.

Source: Native Hawaiians Now Have A Pathway To Form A Government

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A Twitter account has been sharing postcards from decades gone by, along with poignant, funny or mysterious snippets of their writers’ messages

Source: Postcard from the past: a nostalgic glimpse into holidays of yesteryear | Art and design | The Guardian

Seas At Risk – for the protection & restoration of the marine environment

Source: Seas at Risk – Breaking free from plastic – a global movement is formed

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Source: Big Tech’s Latest Artist Relations Debacle: Mass Filings of NOIs to Avoid Paying Statutory Royalties (Part 2) | The Trichordist

“We will only know the true consequences of our time in the water 20 years from now.”

Source: Fukushima’s surfers riding on radioactive waves

The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.

Source: Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic

By some estimates, the entire population of Native Hawaiians was almost wiped out just a century ago. But now their numbers may be near what they were before their first contact with Europeans.

Source: It Took Two Centuries, But The Native Hawaiian Population May Be Bouncing Back : Code Switch : NPR

When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ruins of an old castle in Okinawa, he initially thought it was a hoax.

Source: Ancient Roman coins found in an old Japanese castle – CNN.com

Kunststoffmüll verschmutzt die Meere. Tiere verwechseln ihn mit Nahrung und verhungern mit vollem Magen. Nun versucht eine deutsche Insel, ein Zeichen dagegen zu setzen.

Source: Föhr: Die erste plastikfreie Insel Deutschlands? – Gesellschaft – Süddeutsche.de

Video: Logging Braziil

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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Source: False Idol Is a Study in How to Do Tiki Right – SD Sips – Fall 2016 – San Diego

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

Source: Hokule’a, The Hawaiian Canoe Traveling The World By A Map Of The Stars

An unidentified man found dead on an Australian beach has baffled investigators for decades. A new DNA analysis links the “Somerton Man” to Thomas Jefferson and Native Americans.

Source: DNA Just Tied A Mystery Death In Australia To Thomas Jefferson – BuzzFeed News

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“It is likely that the average consumer has eaten mislabeled fish,” said an author of the study, which analyzed 25,000 samples from around the world.

Source: Catfished by a Catfish: 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds

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Source: Was a son of the powerful Rockefeller family eaten by cannibals?

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The Ocean Cleanup just launched a prototype of their trash-removing device. We caught up with their founder to see how it felt.

Source: This young inventor’s brilliant device could remove tons of garbage from our oceans.

Disney depiction of obese Polynesian god in film Moana sparks anger

Video: Waikiki Dawn Patrol

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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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Touring artists are using their unique influence to help festival organizers move away from single-use plastic

Source: The Music Industry’s Battle Against Plastic Junk

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Surfing in New York – in pictures

Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Na Hulu Ali‘i | LACMA

Scientists don’t know how much flooding Antarctic melting will cause — but it may wipe out cities.

Source: Fate of World’s Coastlines Rests on Melting Antarctic Ice

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Rabbit Kekai, the Last of the Waikiki Beachboys, Dies At 95

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor

Drowned worlds: Egypt’s lost cities

The Marxophone is a 1912 toy instrument that combines a zither with a keyboard linked to flexible hammers that repeatedly strike the strings. The resulting sound, over the years, has earned a stran…

Source: The Marxophone, spooky carnival instrument / Boing Boing

Where are surfing’s most creative subcultures today?

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The physics of ice predicts that sea level will rise twice as much by the end of the century as previously estimated.

Source: Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can’t Be Ignored

The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. We get it. This is your cheat sheet.

Source: Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change

Packaging of the World is a package design inspiration archive showcasing the best, most interesting and creative work worldwide.

Source: Ayvatú on Packaging of the World – Creative Package Design Gallery

Source: So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star: Photos of the 1960’s Garage Band Explosion | Dangerous Minds

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Alexander Selkirk – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Cáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home

Source: Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered

Forget the spread of ticks and mosquitos. Climate change could be responsible for bigger bites by drawing poisonous snakes northward into a band along the U.S. and Canadian border, as well as southward into wide swaths of South America.

Source: Snakes’ Expanding Habitat Could Bring Their Venom to Surprising Places

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