Plan to Release Radioactive Fukushima Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean Panned by Critics
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
A Brief History of the Acoustic Guitar
Portable Wind Turbine charger that allows you to charge your devices in nature
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
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
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
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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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
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: Is Surfing More Sport or Religion? – The Atlantic
The Archivist: The Spot | The Surfers Journal
John Severson, Surfer Who Illustrated Allure of Waves, Dies at 83
Journey-based charts from the past can help us track the progression of transportation technology.
Source: Atlas Obscura
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
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
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
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…
A Most Charming Surf Book – Capital Surfers
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New Zealand Duke Festival – the Program, the Party
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
What is ‘cultured meat’ and how can it address the most pressing global problems? Let us introduce you to some of the brilliant minds behind it.
Source: How can Cultured Meat solve World Hunger and Global Warming?
Police brutality against protesters is reminiscent of civil-rights battles like Selma. And the state has borrowed millions to fund it.
Source: Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock – The Daily Beast
It’s up to progressives to fight back against this idiocy-promoting rhetoric and save the Earth
Tiny, poor, diabetes-wracked Pacific island nations want to ban junk food, despite risk of WTO retaliation
Growing alternatives to petroleum-based packaging
Source: Case Studies
Landscape architect Kristina Hill focuses on helping cities adapt to climate change, particularly sea level rise. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she discusses the challenges, solutions, and costs of saving cities from encroaching oceans.
Source: Rethinking Urban Landscapes To Adapt to Rising Sea Levels – Yale E360
How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items
Source: How to turn old plastic bottles into 56 different items / Boing Boing
