Links for 9/7/24

A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

A Brief History of South American Surf Rock

What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

Links for 2/18/23

Down to Earth: The Arizona teen whose death in extreme heat is a warning of tragic things to come

Instead of planting trees, give forests back to people

Geoengineering in Latin America may create more problems than it solves

Curl Radio

How did the genocide of indigenous Americans impact the health of planet Earth? | Boing Boing

Sanxingdui: A Bronze Culture that is Rewriting History

The world is struggling to figure out conservation. First Nations have some ideas.

Check out these films by Indigenous filmmakers

Ruins of Detroit: Before & After

Links for 7/3/22

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Links for 3/8/22

Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene: Non-Conventional Hydrosocial Relations Among the Wayuu of the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia

The internet is tricking our brains

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

A Celebration of Opening Title Sequences (And Why They Need To Come Back)

Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s | RetroFocus

Teen Dance at Lloyd Goodfellowship Hall [Menominee, MI April 1965]

The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: LA Exotica: The Trader Vic’s Experience

What is the value of a wave?

A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

Dale Davies Surf Movie surfing 50’s & 60’s VOL 1

Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#1)

Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science

The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)

This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees

Links for 7/18/20

Last Run / Tsunami by Benny & The Mid-Knights


 

That time George Washington ordered “total destruction and devastation” of the Haudenosaunee


 

The Threatened Tribe


 

Oldest surviving photograph of Maori discovered in Australia


 

Deke Dickerson


 

Easy Listening Compilations


 

Rising Tides, Troubled Waters: The Future of Our Ocean


 

‘The trees are my grandparents’: the Ecuador tribe trying to save its culture


 

The US government just “disestablished” a Native American reservation


 

Too hot for humans? First Nations people fear becoming Australia’s first climate refugees

Links for 6/11/20

Miners out, Covid out.


 

Ritratti Di Surf | Ale Ponzanelli & Matt Calvani


 

Spectacular bootleg of the 1964 World Titles at Manly


 

Boomers: You can still be heroes in the story of climate change


 

“Prince” Danny Bearer ~ RIP (2009)


 

The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy | John Naughton


 

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone


 

Waving not drowning: the street children finding refuge in Durban’s surf scene