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ALIBUT HERALDJune 18, 2009

National Geographic Best Photos of the Year


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Thses photos were submitted via email so I do not have an official link for them. However, upon Googling (Isnt thatfunny that googling is an everyday verb in our vocabularies?) it, I came across this helpful link where the photos canbe 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

WanderlustHeres an amazingcollection of interactivemaps with accompanyingstories of the journeys

When Spaincommissioned FerdinandMagellan to find awestward route to theSpice Islands in 1519,the explorer commanded

five ships and 240 men.Six years later, nearlyevery member of theexpedition, including itscommander, was dead.When the Americanwriter Jack Kerouac triedin 1951 to find the wordsto convey his wayward

journey through the United States and Mexico, he commanded a typewriter and a massive stash of Benzedrine. Aftera few weeks, the first draft of On the Roadwas completed. These are just two of the journeys that have left indeliblemarks on our collective maps, and are endless sources of fascination. Here is compilation of some of the mostfamous jaunts of all timeboth factual and fictionalthat show us how far weve come, and where we might go next.READ ON & PLAY: http://www.good.is/post/wanderlust/


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Vertical Farms: "Growing Up Sustaina

bringing the farms indoors you create a self contained systhat is not affected and does not affect the outside environIt allows for greater control of the growing environment ancrops are protected from harmful weather. Less harmfulchemicals, if any, are needed and the ones that are used acontained in the system and not leached out into the surroecosystem. In urban areas you can they can actually harvlocal gray water for use in the Farmscraper. That combinwith rainwater harvesting will greatly reduce the need for gwater.READ ON: http://greenupgrader.com/2057/vertical-farmgrowing-up-sustainably/AND CHECK OUT: http://www.verticalfarm.com/

alt Walmsley wins Vancouver Tourismward for February

lt has been faithfully volunteering his time and providingcinating slide shows for the seniors at two seniors centres onNorth Shore. Every month, Walt organizes interesting topicsging from glaciers to marine mammals. A senior himself, hes his slide projector to each site and despite his occasional

alth issues, his spirit, cheerfulness and enthusiasm is bothmirable and contagious. He is very knowledgeable and is ancellent volunteer representative for the Vancouver Aquarium.e seniors and staff always look forward to his visits. He isays willing to share and listen. Walt is most deserving of thisstigious award. Thank you.p://www.vancouvertourismawards.com/winners/february09/

lipino Invention Lets Fishve Without Water

er heard of fish living without water all dayg?

e Bureau of Fisheries and Aquaticsources (BFAR) regional office for Bicol isually adopting a technology that wouldserve the life of commercial fish and let it10 to 18 hours in containers without

ter.AD ON: http://thepinoy.net/?p=3683

BAMs Green Rooftop Aviary for Migrating Birds

Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM) believes its time to go above and beyondwhen designing green rooftops. Exceeding the typical environmental andeconomical benefits of green roof systems, BAMs green rooftop design suppofunctioning biotope for migrating birds. This rooftop aviary will give our featherefriends a birds eye view of Manhattan.

This green roofs ability to produce a living habitata community of flora andfauna, waxing and waning, growing and dying, changing through the seasons, maturing through the decadesprovides a constant, sustainable, and renewabinterest in the performance of the green roof and Goldman Sachs. It is intendebe a rest area for birds and insects traveling along the Atlantic Coast Flyway. Taviary spans 70,000 square feet of roof and vents, into a park that is truly intenfor just twelve species of birds.

READ ON: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/16/bams-green-rooftop-aviarfor-migrating-birds/


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We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high foand our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOMEbeen conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every humbeing.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Groupmade this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to

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

eriously, I watched it this weekend. Its True What they Say:he Best & Most Beautiful World Awareness Movie Online

mproving Sanitation with the Peepoo Bag

he developing world clean water and sanitation are veryarce. This is due to over population and lack of infrastructured poses a serious health risk to the affected populations. Inse parts of the world not only do they lack the infrastructure to

ain clean water, they also lack the infrastructure needed to dealh all their waste, so they end up contaminating the little watery have. Around the world, one child dies every 15 secondsm to contaminated water. For them the saying Dont pissere you drink isnt a clever metaphor, its a real life challenge.

SUGGEST READING THE COMMENT SECTION )AD ON: http://greenupgrader.com/7230/improving-

nitation-with-the-peepoo-bag/

New Documentary Provides anInconvenient Truth for Fish

A new documentary film, End of the Line, released at cinemnationwide on World Ocean Day (8th June), warns thatoverfishing the bluefin tuna could result in the end of seafo2048 because all fishing stocks will collapse as a result ofoverfishing.READ ON:http://bluelivingideas.com/topics/fishing/documentary-inconvenient-truth-fish/END OF THE LINE: http://endoftheline.com/

enerating Usable Energy, Just by DrivingBritish supermarket chain is harvesting renewable energy frommost unexpected place: the parking lot.

nsburys, the self-proclaimed eco-conscious superstore thats the UK, installed kinetic road plates in the car park of its

est store in Gloucester. They work a lot like speed bumps, and store says vehicles passing over them can generate enoughwer to run the cash registers.AD ON: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/sainsburys


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enewable Energy Used to Makerinking Water From Air Humidity

ientists have discovered a way to make drinking waterm the airs humidity, even in arid regions. The systemmpletely uses renewable energy and could provideter for many applications.

EAD ON: http://bluelivingideas.com/topics/drinking-ater/renewable-energy-drinking-water-air-humidity/

reshwater Otter Tickles the Ivories

a, one of four Asian small-clawed otters at theonterey Bay Aquarium, has learned to play the pianoa behind-the-scenes enrichment.

EAD ON:p://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_note

2009/06/freshwater-otter-tickles-the-ivory.html

A Breakdown of the 'Average' American'sEnvironmental Impact

Sorry there was no Canadian one available however, if you've evewondered how much the 'stuff' in your life impacts the environmethis is the chart for you.READ ON: http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/blogs/a-breakdown-of-the-average-americans-environmental-impact

How to Craft Water Democracy, EarthDemocracy & Survive Climate Change:TreeHugger Interviews Dr. VandanaShiva

More recently she's become one of the globe's mostprominent people advocating for a (re)embracement ofsmall-scale, organic, biodiverse agriculture on the groundsthat not only is more productive and more environmentallybenign that monoculture agriculture (even when thatmonoculture is certified organic), but is the key to producingenough food as our climate changes.She's also written extensively about water privatization,water conflict, water management and how these are furtherdisempowering people throughout the globe.READ ON:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/how-to-craft-

water-democracy-survive-climate-change-vandana-shiva-interview.php

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Roadside assistance foryour bikeBCAA has rolled out the Bike Assistprogram, just in time for June (whichis Bike Month, dont you know).

Now you can get your very own tow-truck-driving saviour the next timeyour chain breaks halfway betweenHope and Lillooetor on the side ofthe Lougheed Highway for that

matter.READ ON:http://www.granvilleonline.ca/gr/living/2009/06/03/roadside-assistance-your-bike#ixzz0Ip3I6wTr&D


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ybrid Remotely Operated VehicleNereus Reaches Deepest Part of thecean

new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereushasccessfully reached the deepest part of the worlds

ean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientistsoard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to,902 meters (6.8 miles) occurred on May 31, 2009, at

e Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in theestern Pacific Ocean.

he dive makes Nereusthe worlds deepest-divinghicle and the first vehicle to explore the Marianaench since 1998.EAD ON:tp://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid

57586&ct=162

Cuttlefish K

READhttp://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_no

David de Rothschild Discusses His UpcominPlastiki Voyage

READ ON

http://ecowy.com/20008/david-drothschilddiscussesupcomingplastiki-voyage/OFFICIALPLASTIKIPAGE:http://wwwentureecocom/thepl

/main.htm

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Archival Photo

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

Library NewsGet your up-to-the minutes news via RSS feed from the librarys Whats new pages. Currently, there are twoWhats new pages running a variety of interesting news feeds

Whats New Animals and Nature for news about birds, reptiles, marine mammals, and places such as theArctic http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/WhatsNewAnimalsandNature.aspx

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

News on Environmental conservation and education will soon be available via the Conservation Currenthttp://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


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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

Marios 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: [email protected]


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Events

ENTER CONTESHERE:http://www.marinotobank.com/resces/OceaninFochotoContestHom09.php

e Could Be On This List for 2009!our help is needed: Employee Survey

ur feedback will help to determine how we compare to other companies, and will provide us

h insight into the things that we should celebrate and the things that we need to change in

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

of the responses to the survey will be strictly confidential and your completed surveys willsubmitted directly to a third party.

s link below is unique to us and no one else will be able to access our survey through this

. This survey is for BC based employees only so anyone outside of BC will not be

uired to complete the survey.

e survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your results cannot be saved,

refore please complete the survey in one sitting. Please submit your completed survey as

n as possible but no later than July 10, 2009.

o access the Employee Survey online starting today, pleaseo to https://www.keysurvey.com/survey/258839/ba05/


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http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/exhibition.php?id=6

Get Some Use from Your Tourism Passport This Weekend


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2009 Audubon MagazinePhotography Awards:Birds in Focus, created to celebrate the beauty adiversity of birdlife through the art of photographyand to honor the exceptional work of talentedprofessional, amateur and youth photographers fall over the U.S.

Audubonwill be accepting submissions onlinebetween May 15-July 15 in three categories:Professional, Amateur, and Youth.Photographerencouraged to reveal a new angle or perspectivetheir work. Think creatively, advises Audubonsdesign director Kevin Fisher, one of the judges.Originality and drama rank high at Audubon. Inctight shots, such as close-ups of eyes, feathers. Wwelcome uncommon perspectives.

LEARN MORE:www.AudubonMagazinePhotoAwards.com

http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=4311

http://www.focuschallenge.org/focus.html


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More exciting events hehttp://www.vanevo.ca/evs01.htmlCheck out videos of paslectures here:http://www.sfu.ca/cstudscience/darwin.htm

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