Forged in Fire: California’s Lessons for a Green New Deal

Costa Mesa’s Troy Elmore, half a dozen leedle lefts at Blackies

The Land of the Basques Orson Welles Full documentary with Basque subs

Take a Sneak Peek Inside Max’s South Seas Hideaway

Thanks, Lalo

Media Stability Ratings

Scientists’ Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move.

Japan To Dump Radioactive Water From Fukushima Reactor Into Pacific Ocean

Benidorm the Learning Years

Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

The Bells Beach Surf Film Festival announce their first short film contest

Plan to Release Radioactive Fukushima Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean Panned by Critics

Salvemos Punta Conejo

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change

Happy Birthday, Los Angeles! But is the Story of the City’s Founding a Myth?

Apologies for bringing scary news, but here’s the latest on Greenland’s melting ice

San Onofre and Malibu in 1950 surfing time

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s

The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone

The Archivist: You Crazy Diamonds

Ocean Initiatives, a Success in Spite of Us

Scarborough Bay: 1905

A Brief History of the Acoustic Guitar

Protect Our Ocean

Portable Wind Turbine charger that allows you to charge your devices in nature

‘Gas Is a Loser and It’s Time to Move On’: Report Debunks Myth That Natural Gas Can Help Fight Climate Crisis

Billy Childish Man In The Mouth of A Cave Exhibition Prints

UN chief concerned nuclear ‘coffin’ leaking in Pacific

Los Angeles, Sunset Strip, 1965-1969

Vintage Hawaii 8mm ’69 pt 3

Mike Huckabee’s Epic Fight to Keep Beachgoers Off His Patch of Florida Sand

Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment

How to Travel Responsibly in an Era of Climate Change

414 million pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean

Reef wipeout: surfers fight China-linked mega resort in Fiji

‘One day we’ll disappear’: Tuvalu’s sinking islands

How Chinese Restaurants Shaped Tiki Culture In LA

The Magic Of The Kite (1958)

Hughes/Schweizer 300C South Bay Coastal Flight

Dream weavers: the indigenous Ainu people of Japan – in pictures

The Influence of Indian Music on Jazz

N. American Indigenous Youth Leadership Training

Westside Historic

Mineral created in lab that can remove CO2 pollution from atmosphere

Le Havre, France

Indonesia guilty of crimes again humanity

Plastic pollution: Giant barrier to clean up eastern Pacific

Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, Not Human Nature

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

9 Tiki Bars Around the Country That Will Transport You to a Tropical Vacation

LEGO Plants Now Made from Real Plants

Study Finds New Reason to Ban Plastic: It Emits Methane in the Sun

The World Is Hot, on Fire, and Flooding. Climate Change is Here.

The Middle Precariat: The Downwardly Mobile Middle Class

Built in 1883 by the eccentric Boston millionaire Franklin W. Smith as his winter home, Villa Zorayda was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. (Wikipedia)Circa 1904. “Zorayda Club, King Street, St. Augustine, Florida.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: Villa Zorayda: 1904 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos

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Tribes people from around the world are shown BBC news footage of Morris dancing.

Source: BBC Two – Tribes, Predators & Me, Web exclusive: Tribes react to Morris dancing

Source: Trash Isles: Could the Great Pacific Garbage Patch become an official nation? — Quartz

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Source: ‘Non-drinkers deserve a great adult cocktail’: how alcohol-free spirits became a stealth hit | Life and style | The Guardian

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A longtime South Bay resident barrels through the wave of early-‘60s surf bands and clubs that once gave our Beach Cities a summer soundtrack.

Source: The South Bay Bands that Created the 60’s Surf Music Sound – Southbay Magazine

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Source: Boing Boing

A “raft” of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles is floating in the South Pacific.

Source: A mission to the Pacific plastic patch – BBC News

Source: Indigenous sovereignty is on the rise. Can it shape the course of history? | Julian Brave NoiseCat | Opinion | The Guardian

Source: Indigenous archaeological find in Kakadu recasts Australian history – video | Australia news | The Guardian

Source: Is Surfing More Sport or Religion? – The Atlantic

The Archivist: The Spot | The Surfers Journal

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John Severson, Surfer Who Illustrated Allure of Waves, Dies at 83

Source: The New York Times

Journey-based charts from the past can help us track the progression of transportation technology.

Source: Atlas Obscura

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Tiki is making a comeback. Since the mid-90s, tiki subculture has morphed from sub rosa to vibrant in California.

Source: Kooky for Tiki? Check out this guy’s amazing Huntington Beach backyard – Orange County Register

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Last fall The Ocean Cleanup found 1,000 large pieces of plastic in two hours in the Pacific Ocean during their first aerial reconnaissance mission. The Dutch foundation announced today they’ve…

Source: The Ocean Cleanup raises $21.7 million to begin cleaning Pacific Ocean

Source: How America’s obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai’i / Boing Boing

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Video: Underground Legends – “Odd Todd”

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone

To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule

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Source: Surfing set to Indonesian 60’s pop / Boing Boing

With much assurance, the radioactive contamination would be contained, the Pacific Ocean is contaminated. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting that, Cesium-134, a radioactive chemical that leaked from Fukushima, is being detected…

Source: Officials Admit Radioactive Fish Off U.S. West Coast Have “Disturbing Fingerprint Of Fukushima” – Counter Current News

A Most Charming Surf Book – Capital Surfers

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