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
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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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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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
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Video: Underground Legends – “Odd Todd”
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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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New Zealand Duke Festival – the Program, the Party
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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
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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
The third in a series of international conferences focussed on invasive alien species (IAS) on islands, their impact and management.
Source: Island Invasives Conference, 2017
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples.
Source: Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting for Land and Life by Jenni Monet — YES! Magazine
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.
Giant collection of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items called a ‘ticking time bomb’ as large items crumble into micro plastics
Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered ‘windfarm’
Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken
Source: The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age | Science | The Guardian
I was fortunate to meet up with Joe Davies during my recent trip to Jersey, Channel Islands. This is a short edit filmed during the few hours that the waves cooperated.
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Those who settled on the archipelago 3,000 years ago – and Tonga shortly after – travelled from farther away than previously believed, scientists say
Source: DNA shows first inhabitants of Vanuatu came from Philippines and Taiwan | World news | The Guardian
A group of tribal members, citizens from the Columbia River Gorge and throughout the state gathered on the Capitol steps today to support Anna Mae Leonard, a tribal member who launched a five-day fast to protest a planned give away of 118 million gallons a year of public water in the Columbia River Gorge to Nestlé Corporation. Leonard and her supporters called on Governor Kate Brown to demand that state agencies to stop the Nestlé water exchange.
Source: Tribal Member Fasts in Salem to Protest Gov. Brown’s Nestlé Policies
In Stuttgart absolvierte die Hy4 ihren Jungfernflug. Rein elektrisch schafft der Brennstoffzellenflieger bis zu 1500 Kilometer. Ganz ohne Abgase.
Source: Elektroflieger Hy4 – Erstes Passagierflugzeug mit Wasserstoffantrieb gestartet
Pre orders available now. Shipped in the last week of November. New Holland Publishers are coming out with this pictoral focused book in November. We helped them, extensively, with the image archives and some of the historical research. Bob McTavish wrote the foreword. It is 320 pages, hardbound and will be retailing for $55. Mal Sutherland, John Pennings, Bob Weeks and Barrie Sutherland capture a very significant proportion of the 1960s surf culture in Australia. This book has hundreds of black and white images and documents the era from 1960, through the changes and includes chapters titled; – Surfing in the early 60s – The Malibu era – On the beach – Beach Fashion – Lifestyle – Surf Lifesaving – Competitions – Surfmobiles – The shortboard revolution – Pop culture -Favourite places *the images here are screenshots of 2 x double page spreads….ie 4
Source: Surfing in the 60s Book
Royalty, surf emissaries, and azure lineups in Tonga with Jeff Divine
Source: The Half-Century Files: The King and I | The Surfers Journal
The court’s new focus on land grabbing and environmental destruction could help put a dent in corporate impunity.
Source: CEOs Can Now Be Prosecuted Like War Criminals at the Hague
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Access information on more than 200,000 objects in Te Papa’s collections. Get up close to our collections through collected specimens and thousands of zoomable images.
Source: Topic: Jansen ‘Invader’ guitar | Te Papa’s Collections Online
One photographer/filmmaker, two views of a Tasmanian point wave
Source: Drone and Still Composite | The Surfers Journal
This year is on track to be the third consecutive hottest year on record. Where does that heat go? The oceans, mostly.
Source: Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat
Former residents and environmental campaigners to launch a lawsuit against Pentagon’s plans to use the Marianas islands for bombing practice
Source: Pågan: the tropical paradise the US wants to turn into a war zone | World news | The Guardian
Latraac is a skate bowl and social space in a drug-infested area of Athens – part of a new wave of creative projects transforming the city’s fortunes.
Source: The architect building his own skate oasis in the ruins of the Greek crisis
teleSUR spoke with the lawyer coordinating legal advice and representation for protesters at the North Dakota camps.
Source: What You May Not Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline | Opinion | teleSUR English
WPRK Salutes “Love & Mercy” Film Release : WPRK FM : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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