Links for 12/10/23

The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

Plastic bag recycling project gives up the ghost

Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Alain Gardinier

“Kinda Crazy” celebrates the legendary Rip City Skates

If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion

A Tribute to Chet Atkins

The Groovy Imitation Bands of 1960s Japanese Rock

Links for 6/17/23

Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’

Traditional Development – #6 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series

A shocking number of birds are in trouble

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

America’s Radioactive Secret

Refreshments were once served from a giant owl-shaped building in Long Beach, California

@justinebateman wants to see AI contract terms in actor agreements and music folk should be checking, too

Fish Are Not Insentient Dullards

Mexico Could Lead the World On Solar Energy?—?And Why it Needs To

Carl Sagan: a lovely and powerful new short film and automaton installation about the urgency of environmental action (video)

6 things to know about heat pumps, a climate solution in a box

The Animals on the beach in California – a world away from Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northern England

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

To Fight Coastal Erosion, Design a Bespoke Artificial Reef

Monsieur Hulot’s Parisian House

We can’t afford to choose adaptation over cutting emissions – suggesting otherwise is dangerous

Déplacer Le Silence With Lola Mignot

Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas

Last Waves Legends

Dancers performing “The Nitty Gritty” from the The Judy Garland Show (1964).

Links for 11/17/22

The inconvenient truth of global warming in the 21st century

A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s

Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Climate Change

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns

The Case for Hawaii Having Its Own Olympic Surf Team

Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History

Link for 8/14/22

Reasons not to Buy a Bamboo Toothbrush

The U.S. Tested 67 Nuclear Bombs in Their Country. Now They’re Dying in Oklahoma.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-u-s-tested-67-nuclear-bombs-in-their-country-now-they-re-dying-in-oklahoma

Historical big wave surf film & TV archive acquired

The Theft of the Commons

Vintage Dick Dale Playing Drums & Saxophone

Bunger Surfboards

Snapshots From A Spring Party in 1965 Fresno

Cities For People: How Paris & Barcelona Learned Urban Planning From Groningen

Simpler Way to Learn Surf Etiquette

The Wrought Iron Bug