H ALIBUT HERALD

October 15, 2009

Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them

Crazy, right? For all the day-dreamers out there ☺

READ ON: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/

What’s Your Impact? Find

NO IMPACT WEEK GUIDE
Out by Joining No Impact
(Start by NOT printing the
Week Starting Oct. 18
PDF DOWNLOAD)!

Starting October 18, make like No Impact

Man, Colin Beavan, for one week and just
The idea that one person make noticeable TRY to leave zero-carbon footprint. I dare
positive change is sometimes difficult to you!
imagine, but sometimes the first step is to READ ON:
get some perspective in our own lives. And http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10
in the coming week, you’ll have a chance /12/the-no-impact-week-
to do just that. guide_n_317277.html
READ ON:
NO IMPACT MAN: THE BLOG:
http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2009/10/
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/
13/whats-your-impact-find-out-by-
joining-no-impact-week-starting-oct-18/
NO IMPACT MAN: THE DOCUMENTARY:
http://www.noimpactdoc.com/index_m.php
40,000 Year Old Baby Mammoth Dolphin Present During Human Birth

A baby woolly mammoth that died after being sucked into a

muddy river bed 40,000 years ago has revealed more
prehistoric secrets of how the species survived in its icy Very Pixilated, but you’ll get the gist. And, sure, okay. But why?
habitat. VIEW:
READ ON: http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/dolphin
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/commen _present_during_human_birth/
ts/40000_year_old_baby_mammoth/
IUCN Red List Criteria for
Invasion of the Giant Blobs An Urgent Alert for Dolphins Endangered
of "Sea Mucus"

READ ON:
http://savejapandolphins.blogspot.c
om/2009/10/urgent-alert-for-
dolphins.html The IUCN Species Programme working with
As sea temperatures have risen in recent the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
decades, enormous sheets of a mucus-like BEES! SAVED? has for more than four decades been
material have begun forming more often, assessing the conservation status of species,
oozing into new regions, and lasting longer, subspecies, varieties, and even selected
a new Mediterranean Sea study. They're subpopulations on a global scale in order to
loaded with bacteria and viruses and the highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and
larger ones are 200 kilometers (125 miles) therefore promote their conservation.
long. READ ON:
READ ON & NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC http://www.eoearth.org/article/IUCN_Red_L
VIDEO: ist_Criteria_for_Endangered
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.p
hp/site/comments/gross_sea_mucus_bl Vegetarian Spider Loves Leaves,
obs_on_the_rise/ Not Bugs
Jupiter Moon’s Ocean Could Be One more puzzle piece in the vanishing
Rich in Oxygen bee problems has been solved by
researchers at Washington State
University, They think that the bees
weakened by toxins and pesticides,
excessive work, contaminated wax in
hives and poor nutrition are more
susceptible to a pathogen called
Nosema cerana, microsporidian, a B. kiplingi is the world’s only known vegetarian
small, unicellular parasite that causes an spider, eating a diet that consists almost
immune-deficiency disorder in bees. entirely of solid plant matter.
READ ON: READ ON: http://www.mnn.com/earth-
READ ON: http://naturescrusaders.wordpress.co matters/wilderness-
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009 m/2009/10/13/cleaning-up-our-act- resources/stories/vegetarian-spider-loves-
/10/europa-ocean-oxygen/ can-help-the-bees-thrive/ leaves-not-bugs
 350+ Small Eco Tapped (Trailer)
Changes That Can
Make A Big
Difference
(DOWNLOAD).
Made for (everyone! Not just) kids in the UK but all
you need to do is pretend it says your country
instead of UK to answer the questions. If you are
curious, here’s how I (Emerald) did! “We use approx. 18 million barrels of oil
to transport water.” Or “If you eliminate
the splurge of bottled water, you’ll be
eliminating one of the biggest problems
facing our environment.
WATCH OUT FOR IT!:
http://www.tappedthemovie.com/

Denver Water Provider

Works with Customers
Stonyfield Farm and Body + Directly to Promote Water
CALCULATE!: http://www.planet- Soul magazine have teamed up Conservation
positive.org/how_2_calculator.php to create a free Going Greener
Guidebook to discover more
McDonald’s to Open at the Louvre, than 350 little ways you can
make a big difference for the Looks like a lengthy article, but read the
Sacre Vache! points -- something other cities could
planet.
READ ON: consider.
http://www.thegoodhuman.co READ ON:
m/2009/10/12/350-small-eco- http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/sh
changes-that-can-make-a- ow/denver-water-enhances-billing-
capabilities,997284.shtml

Organizing THE Biggest

Sure Louis Sun King the XIV was rather garish Day Of Action The World
himself, but nothing can compete with the American Has Ever Seen
icon of the golden arches for bad taste. The French
are known for their fine food and art, so what place Bill
does McDonald’s have at the Louvre, even if they McKibben,
call it McCafe? Author, Deep
READ ON: Objective: Optimize energy Economy and
http://greenlivingideas.com/topics/food-and- efficiency and onsite integration The End of
cuisine/mcdonalds-open-louvre-sacre-vache at community scale project levels. Nature, co-
Build on existing initiatives and founder,
Speaking of McD.. (just received this via Twitter) interest to deploy NZEH on a 350.org
larger scale in Canada.
Basically:
• 10,591 kWh – est. total
amount of energy needed
How to Tell If a Beauty Product Is Really Green annually for heating, hot
Even two years ago, I was in
water and appliances
complete despair about our chances
o 8,000-8,500 kWh –
of fighting climate change. But
amount of energy
Greenopia has a comprehensive rating system: something's changed. It's not the
the solar electric
http://www.greenopia.com/LA/beauty_search.aspx?cate science, which has gotten steadily
system will generate
gory=Beauty&Listpage=0&input=Name%20or%20produc worse. It's the first signs that the
annually
t&subcategory=None planet's immune system--conscious
o 2,500 kWh amount
citizens ready to make a difference--is
of energy the solar
Or try plugging in your fave brand @: finally kicking in. Bloggers, in this
hot water collectors
metaphor, are key antibodies--they
will produce
recognize threats, and rally people to
annually
take the steps needed.
• = a net zero home
READ ON:
READ ON:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-
A safety guide to cosmetics and personal care http://www.netzeroenergyhome.ca
mckibben/organizing-the-biggest-
products http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ /index.php?option=about
da_b_322248.html
CALLING ANYONE WITH A BLOG? BE A PART OF THE
SOLUTION AND REGISTER YOUR BLOG TODAY!
http://www.blogactionday.org/

Halloween Bake
Sale

www.vanaqua.org/tttc The Youth Council will be hosting a

Halloween Bake Sale on Friday

October 23rd from 10:30-2:30pm.

They will be raising money for the

Youth for Youth Program, which is
a youth council initiative to bring
students from low income schools to
participate in one of our awesome
school programs. They are looking
for donations of baked goods to sell
that day, so if there are any bakers
out there that would like to donate
please drop it off at volunteer
services on Friday October 23rd by
10:30am. For more information,
please contact Mari Otomo at
mari.otomo@vanaqua.org. Looking
forward to all those yummy treats!

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http://sierraclub.bc.ca/events/andrew-wright-emeralds-at-the-edge-book

Water Drops on Leaves Gung-ho for green in San

Inspire Wind Turbine Francisco
Coatings That De-Ice
Themselves

(This is what we should be doing!)

There are many reasons this hyper-
dense, and progressive, and innovative,
and edgy city is considered the North
American leader in recycling.
There's the pioneer food-composting
program started five years ago. The
Experimental superhydrophobic coatings bans on plastic bags and Styrofoam.
for wind turbine blades. Inspired by the The aggressive target of zero waste by
way water balls up on certain types of 2010. The 69-per-cent recycling rate,
leaves, these promise more efficient the one that Metro Vancouver is aiming
renewable energy, safer airplanes, and to equal in its new plan for garbage. And
more -- the idea is to use these more.
superhydrophobic coatings to reduce icing But there's one other key factor: Their
and improve efficiency. If the ice never squads of friendly recycling
really has a chance to form on the blade cops/cheerleaders/missionaries willing
as its rotating, then it never has a chance to go through the garbage of their fellow
to increase drag on the blade. residents and preach the gospel to
READ ON: them.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/1 READ ON:
0/water-droplets-on-leaves-inspire- http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/feature
s/going_green/story.html?id=031cc0fa-3af3-
http://www.earthcinemacircle.com/ wind-turbine-coatings-de-ice- 4ac8-8283-c1387c7c1327&k=5978
Archival Photo

Killer Whale Habitat, 1990. Photo by M. Butschler.

Library News
For more library news, book reviews, access to our online catalogue and much more, visit us on the aquanet:
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/default.aspx

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
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From Earth to Ocean: Stories from Gwaii Haanas

Parks Canada has identified the waters around Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site (Queen
Charlotte Islands) as a potential national marine conservation area reserve.

To present the stories of Gwaii Haanas, Parks Canada has partnered with The Vancouver Aquarium to offer a unique
speaker series open to the public. Participation is free, though seats are limited. Each engaging event allows
audience members to explore a different aspect of the region and understand the benefits of its protection. Starting in
September, join us to find out more about:

Session 2: Icons of the Pacific

Monday October 26
A look into the history and journey of whales throughout Gwaii Haanas and why protecting these habitats benefits us
all.

Moderator: Don Enright, National Parks Interpretation Specialist, Parks Canada

Investigate the diverse marine life within Gwaii Haanas and delve into the history of whaling in the Queen Charlotte
Islands and the journey of the iconic killer whale and graceful humpback that can be seen off the coast of Gwaii
Haanas. Learn how national marine conservation areas are of value to the diverse marine life and their habitats.

Speakers include:
Reservations close on Monday, October 19th
• Kathy Heise: “Historical Whaling in Gwaii Haanas” Admission is free.
• Lance Barrett-Lennard: “Orcas and Humpbacks”
• Caitlin Birdsall, Cetacean Sightings Network Please RSVP to: lectureseries@vanaqua.org or
phone 604-659-3432

Session 3: Changing Seascape

Monday November 16
Learn about ancient Haida villages, changing sea levels and how historical trade practices have all played a role in shaping today’s
Gwaii Haanas.

Session 4: Healthy oceans, healthy people

Monday December 7
Whether it’s dining out or reporting a whale sighting, your actions can make a difference to our oceans. Join us for this special
conclusion to find out what you can do to help

Each session takes place at The Vancouver Aquarium from 7 – 9 pm.

Please enter at the AquaQuest Administrative Entrance.
To confirm your seat, email: lectureseries@vanaqua.org or call 604-659-3432.
Please identify which session you would like to attend. Seating is limited.

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Local 350.org Events!

See below for some of the events happening October 24, 2009 in Vancouver.
Check the website for events happening worldwide on this critical day for OUR
PLANET.
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EVENT
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http://www.gaininggroundsummit.com
 http://oneofakindvancouver.com/

http://fishopolis.com

Classified
Fishy Home for SALE!
Lightly-Used Marineland Eclipse 6 Gallon Aquarium
Complete with integrated light, pump, easy-to-change filter, biowheel (to
control nitro-waste levels), owner's manual and “how to” literature

2 dip nets (medium and small)

“Auto” siphon
Elite 799 air pump, with tubing and spare bubble stone
MagFloat magnetic floating (go figure!) acrylic surface cleaner
1/2 bottle each of Sera kH-plus and Aqua Plus for tap water pre-treatment

$80 all in
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