H ALIBUT HERALD

June 18, 2009

National Geographic Best Photos of the Year

Thses photos were submitted via email so I do not have an official link for them. However, upon Googling (Isn’t that
funny that ‘googling’ is an everyday verb in our vocabularies?) it, I came across this helpful link where the photos can
be enlarged ☺ details like the bee in the bears nostril are just that much more enjoyable!
SEE BIGGER PHOTOS: http://bigpicture.posterous.com/national-geographic-best-pictu

Wanderlust
Here’s an amazing
collection of interactive
maps with accompanying
stories of the journeys…

When Spain
commissioned Ferdinand
Magellan to find a
westward route to the
Spice Islands in 1519,
the explorer commanded
five ships and 240 men.
Six years later, nearly
every member of the
expedition, including its
commander, was dead.
When the American
writer Jack Kerouac tried
in 1951 to find the words
to convey his wayward
journey through the United States and Mexico, he commanded a typewriter and a massive stash of Benzedrine. After
a few weeks, the first draft of On the Road was completed. These are just two of the journeys that have left indelible
marks on our collective maps, and are endless sources of fascination. Here is compilation of some of the most
famous jaunts of all time—both factual and fictional—that show us how far we’ve come, and where we might go next.
READ ON & PLAY: http://www.good.is/post/wanderlust/
Walt Walmsley wins Vancouver Tourism Vertical Farms: "Growing Up Sustainably"
Award for February

“By
bringing the farms indoors you create a self contained system
that is not affected and does not affect the outside environment.
Walt has been faithfully volunteering his time and providing
It allows for greater control of the growing environment and the
fascinating slide shows for the seniors at two seniors centres on
crops are protected from harmful weather. Less harmful
the North Shore. Every month, Walt organizes interesting topics
chemicals, if any, are needed and the ones that are used are
ranging from glaciers to marine mammals. A senior himself, he
contained in the system and not leached out into the surrounding
lugs his slide projector to each site and despite his occasional
ecosystem. In urban areas you can they can actually harvest
health issues, his spirit, cheerfulness and enthusiasm is both
local gray water for use in the “Farmscraper”. That combined
admirable and contagious. He is very knowledgeable and is an
with rainwater harvesting will greatly reduce the need for ground
excellent volunteer representative for the Vancouver Aquarium.
water.”
The seniors and staff always look forward to his visits. He is
READ ON: http://greenupgrader.com/2057/vertical-farms-
always willing to share and listen. Walt is most deserving of this
growing-up-sustainably/
prestigious award. Thank you.
AND CHECK OUT: http://www.verticalfarm.com/
http://www.vancouvertourismawards.com/winners/february09/

Filipino Invention Lets Fish BAM’s Green Rooftop Aviary for Migrating Birds
Live Without Water

Ever heard of fish living without water all day
long?
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic
Resources (BFAR) regional office for Bicol is
actually adopting a technology that would
preserve the life of commercial fish and let it
live 10 to 18 hours in containers without
water.
READ ON: http://thepinoy.net/?p=3683
Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM) believes it’s time to go above and beyond
when designing green rooftops. Exceeding the typical environmental and
economical benefits of green roof systems, BAM’s green rooftop design supports a
functioning biotope for migrating birds. This rooftop aviary will give our feathered
friends a bird’s eye view of Manhattan.
“This green roof’s ability to produce a living habitat—a community of flora and
fauna, waxing and waning, growing and dying, changing through the seasons, and
maturing through the decades—provides a constant, sustainable, and renewable
interest in the performance of the green roof and Goldman Sachs.” It is intended to
be a rest area for birds and insects traveling along the Atlantic Coast Flyway. The
aviary spans 70,000 square feet of roof and vents, into a park that is truly intended
for just twelve species of birds.
READ ON: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/16/bams-green-rooftop-aviary-
for-migrating-birds/
Seriously, I watched it this weekend. It’s True What they Say:
The Best & Most Beautiful World Awareness Movie Online
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years
to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the
catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us
and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has
been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human
being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group,
made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make
any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, GoodPlanet Foundation President

GoodPlanet Fundation : http://www.goodplanet.org/en

WATCH ONLINE: http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

Improving Sanitation with the Peepoo Bag New Documentary Provides an

Inconvenient Truth for Fish

In the developing world clean water and sanitation are very

scarce. This is due to over population and lack of infrastructure
and poses a serious health risk to the affected populations. In
these parts of the world not only do they lack the infrastructure to
attain clean water, they also lack the infrastructure needed to deal
with all their waste, so they end up contaminating the little water
they have. Around the world, one child dies every 15 seconds
from to contaminated water. For them the saying “Don’t piss
where you drink” isn’t a clever metaphor, it’s a real life challenge.
(I SUGGEST READING THE COMMENT SECTION ☺)
READ ON: http://greenupgrader.com/7230/improving-
sanitation-with-the-peepoo-bag/
A new documentary film, End of the Line, released at cinemas
nationwide on World Ocean Day (8th June), warns that
overfishing the bluefin tuna could result in the end of seafood by
2048 because all fishing stocks will collapse as a result of
overfishing.
READ ON:
http://bluelivingideas.com/topics/fishing/documentary-
inconvenient-truth-fish/
END OF THE LINE: http://endoftheline.com/

Generating Usable Energy, Just by Driving

A British supermarket chain is harvesting renewable energy from
a most unexpected place: the parking lot.

Sainsbury’s, the self-proclaimed eco-conscious superstore that

dots the UK, installed “kinetic road plates” in the car park of its
latest store in Gloucester. They work a lot like speed bumps, and
the store says vehicles passing over them can generate enough
power to run the cash registers.
READ ON: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/sainsburys
Renewable Energy Used to Make A Breakdown of the 'Average' American's
Drinking Water From Air Humidity Environmental Impact

Scientists have discovered a way to make drinking water

from the air’s humidity, even in arid regions. The system
completely uses renewable energy and could provide
water for many applications.
READ ON: http://bluelivingideas.com/topics/drinking-
water/renewable-energy-drinking-water-air-humidity/
Freshwater Otter Tickles the Ivories
Sorry there was no Canadian one available however, if you've ever
wondered how much the 'stuff' in your life impacts the environment,
this is the chart for you.
READ ON: http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-
innovations/blogs/a-breakdown-of-the-average-americans-
environmental-impact

Roadside assistance for

your bike
BCAA has rolled out the Bike Assist
program, just in time for June (which
is Bike Month, don’t you know).

Now you can get your very own tow-

truck-driving saviour the next time
your chain breaks halfway between
Hope and Lillooet—or on the side of
the Lougheed Highway for that
Dua, one of four Asian small-clawed otters at the matter.
Monterey Bay Aquarium, has learned to play the piano READ ON:
as a behind-the-scenes “enrichment.” http://www.granvilleonline.ca/gr/liv
READ ON: ing/2009/06/03/roadside-
http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_note assistance-your-
s/2009/06/freshwater-otter-tickles-the-ivory.html bike#ixzz0Ip3I6wTr&D

How to Craft Water Democracy, Earth Electric Trees

Democracy & Survive Climate Change: Don't look now, but
there's a giant
TreeHugger Interviews Dr. Vandana rechargeable battery
Shiva growing on your
lawn. It's called a
More recently she's become one of the globe's most
prominent people advocating for a (re)embracement of tree.
small-scale, organic, biodiverse agriculture on the grounds The voltage is small -
that not only is more productive and more environmentally - the average tree
benign that monoculture agriculture (even when that generates a mere
monoculture is certified organic), but is the key to producing
100 to 200 millivolts.
enough food as our climate changes.
She's also written extensively about water privatization, But the potential is
water conflict, water management and how these are further huge.
disempowering people throughout the globe. READ ON:
READ ON: http://www.onearth.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/how-to-craft-
water-democracy-survive-climate-change-vandana-
org/article/electric-
shiva-interview.php trees
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Cuttlefish Kids
Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle
“Nereus” Reaches Deepest Part of the
Ocean

READ ON:
http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/

David de Rothschild Discusses His Upcoming

A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has Plastiki Voyage READ ON:
successfully reached the deepest part of the world’s http://ecoworldl
ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists
y.com/2009/06/
aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to
08/david-de-
10,902 meters (6.8 miles) occurred on May 31, 2009, at rothschild-
the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the discusses-his-
western Pacific Ocean. upcoming-
plastiki-
The dive makes Nereus the world’s deepest-diving
voyage/
vehicle and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana
OFFICIAL
Trench since 1998. PLASTIKI
READ ON:
PAGE:
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid
http://www.adv
=57586&ct=162
entureecology.
com/theplastiki
/main.html
Archival Photo

Behind the Scenes View During our 1st Year of Operation, 1956.

Library News
Get your up-to-the minutes news via RSS feed from the library’s What’s new pages. Currently, there are two
What’s new pages running a variety of interesting news feeds

What’s New – Animals and Nature – for news about birds, reptiles, marine mammals, and places such as the
Arctic http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/WhatsNewAnimalsandNature.aspx

What’s New – Business and General – for news about business, finance, tourism, visitor experience and
marketing http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/What%27sNewBGN.aspx

News on Environmental conservation and education will soon be available via the Conservation Current
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/ConservationCurrent/Pages/Default.aspx

Did you know that the Library has access to over 100 journals and magazines??
At least 80 of these are available full text online.
For a complete hyperlinked list, visit the library journals page on Aquanet:
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/Journals.aspx
Classified
For Sale: Used DVDs and video games

DVDs
Matrix Revolutions 2-Disc version
Superman Doomsday animated movie
Ultimate Avengers 2 animated movie
The Animatrix

Nintendo Gamecube games

Crash Bandicoot – The Wrath of Cortex
Spyro – Enter the Dragonfly
Def Jam Fight for NY
True Crime: New York City
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
NBA Live 2005

The above are for sale at $7 each, if you buy 3 or more $5/piece

Also available:

Super Nintendo games ($4/each or 3 for $10)

Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D SOLD
Mario’s Early Years: Fun With Letters SOLD
Battle Clash (Requires Superscope to play)

Nintendo Wii
*Brand New Copy* (Factory sealed):
ExciteBots Trick Racing - $40

If interested please contact Esther: esther.tong@vanaqua.org

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order to compete with the best and have an engaged Aquarium team.

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This link below is unique to us and no one else will be able to access our survey through this
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soon as possible but no later than July 10, 2009.

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2009 Audubon Magazine

Photography Awards:
Birds in Focus, created to celebrate the beauty and
diversity of birdlife through the art of photography,
and to honor the exceptional work of talented
professional, amateur and youth photographers from
all over the U.S.

Audubon will be accepting submissions online

between May 15-July 15 in three categories:
Professional, Amateur, and Youth. Photographers are
encouraged to reveal a new angle or perspective in
their work. “Think creatively,” advises Audubon’s
design director Kevin Fisher, one of the judges.
“Originality and drama rank high at Audubon. Include
tight shots, such as close-ups of eyes, feathers. We
welcome uncommon perspectives.”
LEARN MORE:
www.AudubonMagazinePhotoAwards.com
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