Bill Wurtz made this fun and informative 9-minute history of Japan.
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
Marshall Islands fights for climate action in Paris as sea level rise swallows the island nation
Source: Marshall Islands push for climate action in Paris
Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.
Source: Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
The fate of 70 million people rests on the Mekong river. With crucial UN climate talks in Paris next week, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway and meets people affected by climate change, dams, deforestation and urbanisation
Source: The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis
This [NSFW] 1968 anti-war animated film by Disney legend Ward Kimball is as timely as ever
All images courtesy Joanna Bird Gallery unless otherwise noted As a child, Danish artist Steffen Dam loved poring over his grandparents’ collection of scientific books and cabinets of insects. This fascination of how we catalogue and understand the natural world followed through to his artisti
Source: Exquisite Marine Life Specimens Imagined in Glass by Steffen Dam
Nurtured by three generations of African Americans with a shared vision of economic self-empowerment, the patronage of black businesses, the cultivation of black arts, and the maintenance of a public commons for political discourse, Leimert Park is not just the crown jewel of black Los Angeles, it is its center.
Source: The Center Can Hold: Leimert Park and Black Los Angeles
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Jeff Goldblum explains the Clean Power Plan to “reptilian nincompoops” (aka fossil fuel execs)
Source: Don’t Be Garbage People
… and don’t be a tool of garbage people, I’d like to add.
These 10 business leaders show how fighting climate change is good for everyone’s bottom line
Source: The onEarth 10
Dewey Weber’s 22nd Street Cutback Becomes History Written In Bronze – the Full Story
The Mediterranean may lose its wild bluefin tuna. High-tech harvesting and wasteful management have brought world fish stocks to dangerous lows.
Source: Fisheries, Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Oceans- National Geographic
Algaemy is a Berlin design project from the Blond & Bieber studios which harnesses biotech microalgae strains to print a naturally alternative textile ink.
Source: Algaemy use Microalgae in Textile Printing
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Source: Visions of the Month- October 2015
It’s a scene straight out of the Jungle Book, only accessible from the outside world by a narrow canal that weaves its way through a parting in the wild and tangled overgrowth, west of […]
Source: The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle | Messy Nessy Chic
Malibu – 1940s on Vimeo
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The myth of carbon-free hydropower is embedded in the Kyoto protocol to address planetary climate change, and is being implemented in COP 21 climate plans
Source: The Hydropower Methane Bomb No One Wants to Talk About
Shigir Idol is oldest wooden sculpture monument in the world, say scientists
Genetic history of P-M45: Native American migration
Let’s See What Happens When This Group Of Scientists Retests Studies That Contradict Climate Science
Trash-mapping expedition sheds light on ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
Hawaii’s Waikiki beach deserted after heavy rains trigger huge sewage spill
2015 World Bodysurf Championship
Humans Are Set To Wipe An India-Sized Chunk Of Forest Off The Earth By 2050
First Offshore Wind Farm In U.S. Under Construction
People Riding Motorcycles on the Streets in Vietnam
DNA study of 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton links Europeans to Native Americans
Jon Savage announced new book – 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded