Source: The Astronauts – Surfin’ The Rockies | Rock n Roll Reviews and Trivia
A vegetarian diet does not necessarily have a low impact on the environment
Source: Lettuce Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions Per Calorie Than Bacon Does – Scientific American
Back to the Mod revival of 1979 and the film Steppin Out. See the Mods on the streets of London including a young Mick Talbot from The Style Councill
Source: London Mods – Steppin Out in Seventy Nine – Voices of East Anglia
The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries that have a strong interest in maintaining and expanding their monopolies of digital services and content.
Source: How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Financial specialists making carbon investment risk real today in the capital market
Raising the bar for municipalities across the country, San Diego has adopted one of the nation’s most ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions.
Source: San Diego adopts an ambitious, and legally binding, plan to cut emissions
Widespread human trafficking is a big part of why Thailand is now one the world’s biggest shrimp providers, an Associated Press investigative series details.
Source: That shrimp you’re eating may have been peeled and packed by slaves
Source: Holy rollers: Church transformed into psychedelic skate park
Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)
Source: Laudato si’ (24 May 2015) | Francis
The native deisgns of New Zealand / Aoteoroa, rendered in SVG
Source: the new code – World Ethnomathematics: Maori Designs in SVG
It pumped out hugely successful cowboy films, heist dramas and Bond-style thrillers. It launched a Hollywood career and made the world’s first Zulu-language film. So does it matter that the explosion of black cinema in apartheid South Africa was funded by Pretoria – and led by an Afrikaner construction boss?
Source: Sollywood: the extraordinary story behind apartheid South Africa’s blaxploitation movie boom
Source: WFMU: Crayons to Perfume with Glynis GirlGroupGirl: Playlist from November 25, 2015
Der Hamburger Sven Kacirek sucht Klänge, die sich dem globalen Geschmack noch nicht angepasst haben. Und so kam er auf die japanische Insel Okinawa
Source: Musik ? Im Orchideenfach — der Freitag
Source: Fraternal Order of Moai – F.O.M. sends annual donation to the Easter Island Foundation
Source: ‘I don’t give a **** if we agree’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s epic rant about climate change | Business Insider
The latest music, band and film blogs from the NME.COM team
The music Paul Mason remembers falling in love with is undergoing a revival.
Source: Poor-Man’s Speed: Coming of Age in Wigan’s Anarchic Northern Soul Scene | VICE | United Kingdom
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Opponents of $250m project on island Barbuda say the government is trampling on citizens’ rights by approving project under new celebrity-incentive law
Source: Robert De Niro’s plan for Caribbean mega-resort opposed by island residents
Bruce’s Beach and the Inkwell served as sites of leisure, agency, community, and controversy, and demonstrate the complex racial history of the Golden State.
Source: Fighting for Leisure: African Americans, Beaches, and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century L.A.
Come explore these corals in 3D (no SCUBA certification required)
Source: Corals, Now Playing in 3D
Indigenous groups survive in isolation in Peru, including the Mascho Piro, who in recent months have begun reaching out. But some worry about the consequences: ‘If they live with us, they risk losing everything they ever knew’
Source: Why has this Amazonian tribe suddenly started to make contact with outsiders?
Experts highlight threat to lesser-known apes and mokeys from large-scale habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade
Source: More than half of the world’s primates on endangered species list
Climate Central has created an interactive, zip-searchable map of the U.S. to show the local consequences of high vs. low carbon emissions.
