H ALIBUT HERALD

July 9, 2009

Andy Goldsworthy's Amazing Works of Art

Andy Goldsworthy’s ‘Rivers & Tides’ DVD available at our Robin Best Library, if you have yet to see
it, I highly recommend checking out his thought-provoking mastery in sculpting natural materials and his theories of why he does
what he does.

“If you’re taking a stroll through the English landscape…Andy Goldsworthy wants to stop you in your tracks.

He’s a British sculptor, photographer and committed environmentalist, and he likes arranging things. He turns random piles of
stones into gravity-defying structures and scattered leaves into dazzling gradiated rainbows. He tracks lines and curves upon the
ground where none should exist, stacks ice in the unlikeliest of places, and puts patterns and colors into the landscape that would
make any onlooker rub their eyes. And the true magic of his work is that for a second – just for a second – you believe it’s the work
of Nature. What would your first thought be if you encountered these in the wild?

“Everything has the energy of its making inside it.”

- Interview, The Guardian, 2007.

READ ON & MORE PHOTOS: http://www.ecosalon.com/andy-goldsworthys-amazing-works-of-art/

Digital Catalogue and other info: http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/
YOUTUBE CLIP OF RIVERS & TIDES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYiVBgTtp-k
 People Come Together
Fellow Forward Thinkers/Movers/Shakers! We are halfway finished 2009 and Scientists have been requesting for
decades for us to act now in order to sustain a healthy planet for generations to come! This is far from old news, but
only recently is it being heard and taken to heart. The evidence of our proven collective disrespect to Mother Earth will
not just disappear with ignorance; however, in recent years, people are quickly assembling together for something
they believe in and it’s astonishing! Here are some examples of what’s being done to motivate the rest of the world
population to get up and change our future.
ONEHUNDREDMONTHS:
http://www.onehun
dredmonths.org/

http://green.
cbc.ca/

http://www.
350.org/
The Big Ask

2 MINUTE AWESOME VIDEO: MUST WATCH!

More than 6,000 people took part in the recording of
The Big Ask-video clip at Ostende on the Belgian
coast. The film clip was made possible due to the
engagement of volunteers from Friends of the Earth.
WATCH IT:
http://www.thebigask.be/nl/node/411

The Happy Planet Index is determined by calculating the

life expectancy and people’s happiness against their
environmental impact in 143 countries that are home to
99 percent of the world’s population.
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/
ANNUAL REPORT:
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/public-
data/files/happy-planet-index-2-0.pdf
Focus on Rich People of All Nations First: New In Kaslo, a Big No to River Power
Carbon Emission Reduction Method Proposed

More than 1,000 turn out to oppose Kootenay project.

People of all ages came with costumes, banners, marching

In Sharing Global CO2 Emissions Among 1 Billion High Emitters
researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute say that the
starting point in determining national emission reduction targets should
be individuals.
If you fly a lot, have a large home with high air conditioning and/or
heating requirements, and drive countless miles in a fuel inefficient car
your emissions are much higher than the average person in a poor
nation, or even your neighbors in the poorer parts of town.
READ ON: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/focus-on-
rich-people-all-nations-new-carbon-emission-reduction-
calculation-method.php
bands, meticulously researched and passionately articulated
speeches. First they rallied outside the school before the
meeting, then they lined up one after another at the
microphone to say a resounding "no" to the project and the
whole idea of privatizing our rivers for power we don't need
and can't use. Why can't we use it? Because the bulk of this
power would come in spring, the time of our lowest demand
and highest supply, vowing that this project would be
stopped.
READ ON:
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/07/06/KasloNo/?utm_source
=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign
=060709
10 Great Green Google Earth
Layers – A Slideshow
EXAMPLES:
1. World Per Capita Carbon Emissions

Canada Ranked Last in G8 on Canada has fallen to last place in

Climate Action the latest G8 Climate Scorecard,
after the United States moved up
in the annual rankings based on
recent climate initiatives
announced by the Obama
administration. The report cites
Canada as one of the few G8
nations whose emissions are still
increasing, due in large part to
the commitment to expanding 2. World Fisheries Catch Data since the
exploitation of the tar sands. 1950s

“Nowhere else on Earth do

fewer people steward more
resources, yet Canada now
stands dead last amongst the G8
Nations in protecting our shared
home from the threat of
dangerous climate change,” said
Keith Stewart, Director of WWF-
Canada’s Climate Change
Campaign. “Canada's future lies
in creating green jobs on a living
planet, not in becoming the
energy sweatshop for the world.” VIEW ALL:
READ ON: http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/0
http://wwf.ca/newsroom/?4000 4/10-really-great-green-google-earth-
layers.php?page=1
Aquatic Deer and Ancient Whales Video: The Making of a Pedestrian-Only Street in
Curitiba, Brazil

If you startled a deer, you might not expect it to jump

into the nearest pond and submerge itself for
minutes. "The behaviour is interesting because it is
unexpected. Deer are supposed to walk on land and
graze not swim underwater. But more interestingly
for the zoologist are the evolutionary implications,"
If you have yet to rent from our Robin Best Library, “A Convenient Truth:
he says.
Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil”, I suggest doing it soon!
In the mean time, Check out this short vid from treehugger:
The behaviour bolsters one leading theory regarding
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/curitiba-pedestrian-only-
the origin of whales.
street-video.php
READ ON:
Trailer for ‘A Convenient Truth’:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQTTG3NcYY
d_8137000/8137922.stm

Zoo Installation Shows Trouble In Wildlife Paradise

Trouble in Paradise--an art installation at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo--shows the troubling impact of modern civilization on wildlife
habitat.
READ ON & VIEW MORE PICS: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/zoo-installation-shows-trouble-in-
paradise.php?dcitc=TH_rotator

New Monkey Discovered in Brazilian Amazon

Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a
remote part of the Amazon rain forest a U.S.-based wildlife
conservation group said on Tuesday.

The small monkey, which is mostly gray and brown and weighs 213
grams, has been named the Mura's saddleback tamarin after the Mura
Indian tribe of the Purus and Madeira river basins where the new sub-
species was found. "This newly described monkey shows that even
today there are major wildlife discoveries to be made,"

"This discovery should serve as a wake-up call that there is still so

much to learn from the world's wild places, yet humans continue to
threaten these areas with destruction,"
READ ON:
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/monkey+discovered+
Brazilian+Amazon/1767887/story.html
Shark-ravaged Sea Turtle Tries Out Jellyfish and Vermin: The Future of Food?
Artificial Flippers After Losing Limbs; 'It
Will Be A Global First'

KOBE, Japan -- Tests on artificial flippers for a loggerhead

sea turtle with only two limbs started here over the weekend
in an attempt to return the turtle to the wild.
READ ON:
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=
34519107268

Fishy tale: one man's READ ON:

fight to save tuna http://scienceblogs.com/guiltyplanet/2009/07/jellyfish_vermin_futu
re_meat.php

World's Largest Ocean

Observatory Near
Completion; 'This Is Truly
Transformative Science'
Over the next two-and-a-half months, a
team of scientists and marine engineers will
complete the installation off British
Columbia of NEPTUNE Canada, the
world’s largest and most advanced cabled
ocean observatory.
READ ON:
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.p
hp?article_id=12067395104

WatCleaner Robot Cleans Up Water

Pollution
As the owner of a fishing fleet during
the past four decades, Stehr had
helped empty the seas of the bluefin
tuna used in sushi restaurants from
New York to Tokyo. Now, at age 67,
he believed he was on the verge of Robots cleaning polluted
saving the tuna - and the industry that water sounds futuristic?
made him rich - from the threat of Not anymore.
extinction. READ ON:
READ ON: http://bluelivingideas.co
http://business.smh.com.au/busine m/topics/drinking-
ss/fishy-tale-one-mans-fight-to- water/watcleaner-robot-
save-tuna-20090707-db2o.html cleans-water-pollution/
We Could Be On This List for 2009!
Your help is needed: Employee Survey ☺
Your feedback will help to determine how we compare to other companies, and will provide
us with insight into the things that we should celebrate and the things that we need to
change in order to compete with the best and have an engaged Aquarium team.

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

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your results cannot be saved,
therefore please complete the survey in one sitting. Please submit your completed survey
as soon as possible but no later than July 10, 2009.

To access the Employee Survey online starting today,

please go to
https://www.keysurvey.com/survey/258839/ba05/

Chance to Protect Babies from Toxic

Chemicals
“The decline in some marine mammal populations is
linked to the prevalence of flame retardant chemicals and
other persistent organic pollutants,” says marine biologist
Holly Lohuis of the Ocean Future’s Society. “Because
marine mammals are so similar in biology to humans, I
had myself and my four-year-old son tested and, to my
horror, we are both contaminated; my son’s levels were
off the charts. It’s unconscionable to have these
chemicals actually mandated in products for anyone, let
alone children.”
READ ON: http://www.oceanfutures.org/of_blog-
post.asp?ID=94

Survey Says. . . Today, I went to Happiness Objectified: Do

English Bay in
Vancouver and asked Our Things Make Us Happy?
one simple question
of those who live
here, “Where does
the non-recyclable
trash go?” Here are
the results:
READ ON:
http://www.trashtrip.
com/uncategorized/
survey-says/

Sea lion hijacks LA harbor READ ON:

patrol boat http://www.psfk.com/2009
Out in the harbor the boat’s emergency /07/happiness-objectified-
lights flashed, deck lights went on and off do-our-things-make-us-
and the emergency pump and other happy.html
equipment began turning on and off at
random. The boat lurched to one side and
seemingly stering itself.
READ ON:
http://blog.ocsd.org/post/2009/06/24/Uns
een-Boarder-Tries-to-Take-Control-of-
Department-Fireboat.aspx
Come into the Gift Shop this week & see
all the new and exciting products we
have to offer. It’s summer time which
means lots of great new products are
making their appearances on our
shelves!

Drop by and see our new assortment of

bags, wallets, luggage tags and passport
holders in an assortment of motifs and
colours. Bright and beautiful just like
summer time.

Large Wallets
regular: $24.99 staff: $17.49

Small Wallets
regular: $22.99 staff: $16.09

Purses
regular: $54.99 staff: $38.49

Passport Holders
regular: $24.99 staff: $17.49
Archival Photo

Aquarium Entrance, 1974.

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

As well, you can find new books and movies listed on this page of Aquanet:
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/LibraryCatalogue.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

http://fishopolis.com
Events

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
http://www.thebigwi
ld.org/summer-
friends-contest
 ENTER CONTEST
HERE:
http://www.marineph
otobank.com/resour
ces/OceaninFocusP
hotoContestHome20
09.php

http://www.museumofva
ncouver.ca/exhibition.p
hp?id=6
 http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=4311

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

If you or anyone here at the Vancouver Aquarium would be interested in making a donation (tax
receipts available, and 100% of your donation goes to those in need!), please please PLEASE do
so! So far, I'm at $0 here at the Aquarium :(

I've set up a CanadaHelps GivingPage where you can make donations towards the 2009 FOCUS
Hike4Life Challenge. The link is above, as well as a few other informative links as well.

And please remember that every little bit helps, and 100% of your contribution will go towards
FOCUS to help those in need! I will also be doing something special for all of those who have
contributed towards this wonderful cause. I'm not sure yet what this will be, but it could be along
the lines of a large, high-quality photographic print, taken by yours truly, from the Hike4Life
expedition
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More exciting events here:
http://www.vanevo.ca/event
s01.html
Check out videos of past
lectures here:
http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/
science/darwin.htm