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

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 2/20/21

Honolulu 1954


 

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future


 

Surf Film Filmography


 

While Hollywood Had the Sunset Strip, East L.A. Had the ‘Latin Strip’


 

Stan Ross Larry Levine Interview 1988


 

Meet the Melanasians: Black People with Naturally Blonde Hair


 

Was Music City L.A.’s Greatest Record Store?


 

Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines


 

GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality


 

Red Rover: 1957


 

Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy

Links for 6/20/20

Sambarama 2


 

Del Shannon the making of an album


 

With Paris project industry giant WhiteWater jumps into the surf park market


 

LA, back then.


 

Fat Dreams of Italy


 

Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint’ of drinks firms


 

Fat Cat de Crème


 

Building Solidarity Against False Solutions!


 

Factory Schools see something “wrong” with being indigenous


 

The great kava boom: how Fiji’s beloved psychoactive brew is going global


 

“A Dance With Plants” – balmy Costa Rica


 

The First Session at Waimea


 

Earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art

Links for 1/26/20

vintage-skateboards.com


 

Climate refugees cannot be sent back home, United Nations rules in landmark decision


 

The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones


 

Buffalo


 

Skateboard shop in LA and It’s large collection

Aktivieren Sie JavaScript um das Video zu sehen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2VUVsUaMQ4

 


 

California sues tech investor Vinod Khosla over beach access, reviving bitter legal battle


 

Mantra Skateboards


 

Makaha Skateboards


 

Morris J-Type van gets electric reboot after 58-year hiatus


 

Rampart Records’ essential box set mines East L.A.’s 1960s and ’70s soul-funk scene


 

Kris Hall – walk like a samba – vid by Laura Holman


 

One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op


 

Stacia Ahina & Ashley Ahina | Midday Longboard Surfing in Hawaii


 

The brutal history of Bougainville – in pictures


 

Unheard Voices, Unique Perspectives


 

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think


 

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence


 

The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change


 

Six takeaways from The Post’s analysis of the globe’s fastest-warming areas


 

If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label

Links for 9/14/19

In 1868 a Scottish castaway had to make a new life among the people of the Solomon Islands


 

Volkswagen is electrifying classic VW Beetles


 

Time Capsule: The cranking Haleiwa section from High On a Cool Wave


 

The Archivist: You Crazy Diamonds


 

Weather-related events are estimated to displace 143 million people by 2050 – but rising seas are already threatening tiny tropical nations. Can anything be done to help them?


 

Submissions are still open, and here’s the latest news from NSFF


 

Amazon fires: Bolsonaro actively trying to devastate rainforest, leaked documents show


 

The Climate Trail is a Free multi-platform game about climate refugees fleeing ever worsening conditions after inaction on climate has rendered much of the USA (and the world) uninhabitable. The game combines the adventure and play of the journey north with visual novel elements where characters reveal how and why this climate apocalypse unfolded.


 

The best street performance, ever! No competition…

Links for 5/3/19

The natural world can help save us from climate catastrophe


 

How to Experience Tiki Cuture in San Francisco


 

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

exhibition, May 5, 2019 – October 27, 2019 


 

Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change


 

“Isolated” Follows Surfers As They Encounter Untold Human Rights Atrocities In West Papua

Surfers get “Isolated” in West Papua

‘It opened my eyes’: The Indonesian woman fighting for West Papuan independence


 

The Mysterious Menehune of Hawai’i


 

Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year, researchers find


 

Going Native: 1890


 

The Chinese were white – until white men called them yellow


 

‘We cannot swim, we cannot eat’: Solomon Islands struggle with nation’s worst oil spill


 

We Grew Up in Case Study House #22


 

Marika Rökk, Finale “Ich warte auf Dich”

Links for 1/5/17

The debate over the so-called global warming ‘pause’ just got reopened.

Source: NOAA challenged the global warming ‘pause.’ Now new research says the agency was right – The Washington Post


 

Honey Skateboards


 

Source: Drinking Your Way Through ‘The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book’


 

Handmade models of classic midcentury Palm Springs houses.

Source: Palm Springs midcentury modern in miniature: Mini City by McKean Studio | Retro to Go


 

Melanesians may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct human relative.

Quelle: DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative | Science News

Links for 12/11/16

Companies and individuals have a duty to recycle everything possible and to create and use more sustainable packaging

Source: Modern life is rubbish: we dont need all this packaging | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian


 

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


 

link


 

link