Source: Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on Our Mental Health | NRDC
Source: Swift Cruiser Board | 100% Handmade in the UK | Lush Longboards
Source: Diggers delight: London’s 8 best secret record shops – The Vinyl Factory
Source: Thailand bans smoking on 20 popular tourist beaches | Travel | The Guardian
Source: Vulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rico Prey | By | Common Dreams
Source: Glossing Over a Genocide | East Bay Express
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According to University of Texas at Austin professor Raj Patel, an expert in ecology and food systems, our demand for meat is driving the sixth mass extinction. Patel is one of many leading academics who contemplate declaring a new age on Earth, called the Anthropocene, since “the fossils of soon-to-be extinct animals will form a line in the rocks of the future.”
Source: How Factory Farming Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction (Video) | Alternet
Source: Cutting Room: The Caretaker of Intangible Ingredients | The Surfers Journal
Source: Top 4 Easy Ways For Your Band To Go Green – MTT – Music Think Tank
It happened – an old dj fav of mine in a skate video.
Source: Maker Update #46: Make an Rapa Nui 3D printed bobblehead / Boing Boing
The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans
A place called hope: the tiny island on the frontline of US-China tensions
How Matchbox cars were made in 1965
Source: Boing Boing
With a forgotten temple city, Myanmar hopes to strike tourism gold
On the Water: 10 Favorite Places on European Rivers, Lakes and Coastlines
Source: Sir Roger Moore, 1927-2017 / Boing Boing
The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners – Bloomberg
The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean)
Source: Life in Ancient Oceans Enabled by Erosion from Land | Lab Manager
New Zealand Duke Festival – the Program, the Party
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
What is ‘cultured meat’ and how can it address the most pressing global problems? Let us introduce you to some of the brilliant minds behind it.
Source: How can Cultured Meat solve World Hunger and Global Warming?
Police brutality against protesters is reminiscent of civil-rights battles like Selma. And the state has borrowed millions to fund it.
Source: Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock – The Daily Beast
It’s up to progressives to fight back against this idiocy-promoting rhetoric and save the Earth
Tiny, poor, diabetes-wracked Pacific island nations want to ban junk food, despite risk of WTO retaliation
Growing alternatives to petroleum-based packaging
Source: Case Studies
Sky Ocean Rescue
Landscape architect Kristina Hill focuses on helping cities adapt to climate change, particularly sea level rise. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she discusses the challenges, solutions, and costs of saving cities from encroaching oceans.
Source: Rethinking Urban Landscapes To Adapt to Rising Sea Levels – Yale E360
How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items
Source: How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items / Boing Boing
The Silicon Valley founders of the Seasteading Institute have falsely promoted themselves for some time as philanthropists.
Source: Helen Razer: Seasteading Institute a taxless safe space for rich, white men
The logic that maximizing GDP, which is just the summation of all goods and services exchanged for money, will somehow lead to a better world for all is so obviously flawed, yet it continues to be held in high regard by almost every mainstream economist.
Source: Globalization Makes No Sense
From cutting down on meat to contacting your local representatives and investing in clean energy, here are 15 ways to help reduce global carbon emissions
Source: How to reduce your carbon footprint #GlobalWarning | Environment | The Guardian
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Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman – Wikipedia
Jonathan Taplin’s new book demonstrates how intellectual property has been hijacked by Facebook, Amazon and Google.
Source: Peter Bart: Content Creators Robbed Blind By Apple, Google, Facebook | Deadline
Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Pays Tribute to Billy Miller from the WFMU Rock and Soul Ichiban Stream 1/1/17 MP3
Source: Funky16Corners » Funky16Corners Pays Tribute to Billy Miller
Source: 200,000 years of human population growth in 5 minutes
The best guitar necks are made of mahogany, and the most sustainable guitar companies are finding innovative ways to source the wood without destroying its stock.
Source: Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany | World Resources Institute
The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Source: Latin America Green News: 12/2 – 12/15 | NRDC
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Video: Basque Beachbreak
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Ta’u island in American Samoa will rely on solar panels and Tesla batteries as they do away with diesel generators
100% Skateboarding Magazine, including longboarding. “The ride is the reward”
Source: Concrete Wave Magazine
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to President Barack Obama Friday requesting he intervene to protect Native Americans peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Quelle: Sanders Calls on President to Intervene in Dakota Access Pipeline Dispute – Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
The Jersey Shore circa 1905. “In the surf at Asbury Park.” Having a wonderful time; wish we were still here. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative.
Quelle: Landing Party: 1905 | Shorpy Historic Picture Archive
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will undermine the ability of countries to control polluting and extractive industries, says Ben Lilliston
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
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Santa Monica’s lost Googie diner may reopen
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As Hurricane Matthew hits Florida, it has already left hundreds dead and tens of thousands displaced in Haiti.
Source: IRIN | Haiti hurricane toll soars
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Vince Taylor: The leather messiah who inspired Ziggy Stardust | Dangerous Minds
A short history of cops telling women what to wear at the beach
The third in a series of international conferences focussed on invasive alien species (IAS) on islands, their impact and management.
Source: Island Invasives Conference, 2017
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples.
Source: Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting for Land and Life by Jenni Monet — YES! Magazine
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.
Giant collection of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items called a ‘ticking time bomb’ as large items crumble into micro plastics
Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered ‘windfarm’
Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken
Source: The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age | Science | The Guardian
I was fortunate to meet up with Joe Davies during my recent trip to Jersey, Channel Islands. This is a short edit filmed during the few hours that the waves cooperated.
Sam Hanks
Source: Joe Davies / Jersey
