The non-profit Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) is hosting a special Scuba Diving Sea Turtle & Shark Research Expedition March 13-23, 2011, at the stunning Cocos Islands off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica! For each of our members that joins the trip, STRP will make a generous donation to Reef Relief.
To learn more, visit www.seaturtles.org/expeditions, or call STRP at 415-663-8590 ext. 101. Be sure to mention that you are a Reef Relief member!
Free Movies: End of the Line
Short Films at 6:30: Feature at 7:00pm Free Popcorn, Bring Your own Chair
Where: Refuge Nature Trails Parking Lot ( 1/4 mile North of Blue Hole on Key Deer Blvd)
Free Popcorn, Bring Your Own Chair ! Short films/ popcorn starts at 6:30 pm & Feature starts at 7:00 pm !
This …wk see : The End of the Line
Hosted by FAVOR, Friends And Volunteers Of Refuges
You can now support coral reef conservation with purchases you make everyday. By using a Reef Relief credit card you automatically support coral reef conservation at no additional cost to you.
2% of gas purchases, up to 10% of purchases at select merchants, and 1% of all purchases go to Reef Relief’s coral reef conservation programs
Visit www.CardLabConnect.com/reefrelief
The 6th Annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival is scheduled for Saturday, January 15, 2011
1:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., at Bayview Park (corner of Truman Avenue & Jose Marti Drive) in Key West.
FREE ADMISSION!
Parking: $5 per car at Horace O’Bryant Middle School parking lot (construction permitting), 1105 Leon Street, adjacent to Bayview Park.
There will also be parking available at the Key West High School parking lot, 2100 Flagler Avenue for $5 per car with shuttle transportation to and from Bayview Park.
Florida Keys Key West Seafood Festival 2011 poster
Sunday Jan. 8th, doors open 1pm. 2pm
The Great Squeeze, An award winning film on sustainability (http://www.thegreatsqueeze.com/ ) Our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels has been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years. Although it has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, prosperity has come at a tremendous price. We are now at a point where humanity’s demands for natural resources far exceed the earth’s capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the consumption of these resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly, that a new geological era had to be created. These man-made threats become even more ominous when you look at them together as part of a global trend. The film then goes back in time and takes us on a journey through history when past civilizations made the same mistake of growing too fast, depleting their natural resources and ultimately collapsing. Instead of the usual band-aid approaches, The Great Squeeze challenges us to learn from history and transition towards a more sustainable economy that values our environment. Our current paradigm of unending economic growth has become a threat to our prosperity and the long-term viability of humans on this planet. The film is a call to action and gives us a framework for the changes that must take place. We are faced with great challenges, but unlike the rest of the living world, we have the unique ability to adapt and decide our fate and the fate of most of the biosphere, for better or worse, in order to survive the human project. Released in March 2009, The Great Squeeze was selected at 14 film festivals around the world and won two awards for best documentary.
68 min 4pm (three 30 min films):
Fish Key West (1989)
Dive Key West (1989)
Sink the Vandenberg 2010
Fish Key West : (1989 // 30 min), Dive Key West (1989 // 30 min), Fish Key West and Dive Key West are each 30 minute travel videos produced in 1989. Local fishermen and divers will recognize many of the sites as well as recognizing many changes to those sites, a example of an ever shifting baseline.
Dive Key West visits Joes Tug (before it was torn in half by Hurricane Georges in 1989) and the Cayman Salvor.
After a short discussion of the 1989 travel videos we jump forward in time visit the Vandenberg : Sink the Vandenberg , WPBT Changing Seas: Episode 204. original air date June 22nd 2010 In the turquoise blue waters of the Florida Keys, a new attraction is drawing scuba divers from around the world: The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. The Vandenberg is the world’s second largest intentionally sunk shipwreck. Prior to being sunk, this mighty ship transported troops to the battlefields of World War II, carried European refugees to distant shores, and later helped win the Cold War. Left abandoned for years as part of a ghost fleet, the Vandenberg has at last found her final resting place – seven miles off Key West, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In her last mission as an artificial reef, this massive ship is already attracting a variety of fish and other marine life. Now, natural resources managers are trying to determine what impact this artificial reef has on fish populations and the health of the surrounding natural reefs.
For more information: http://www.sanctuaryfriends.org/
FL Keys National Marine Sanctuary Marine Sanitation Device Discharge Regulations, Effective December 27, 2010.
Click here to find out details about the new regulations
Reef Relief Events, November 1 – 7
Reef Relief Environmental Center Open House
Monday – Friday 11/1-11/5
Reef Relief will host a week long “Explore the Reef” Open House, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm, at the Reef Relief Environmental Center at 631 Greene Street in Key West, behind the Conch Republic Seafood Company.
The Environmental Center introduces visitors to coral reef ecosystems, its threats and what can be done to protect our coastal resources. The center features a diorama of a healthy and a damaged coral reef that identifies conditions needed for healthy coral growth as well as major threats to the coral reef ecosystem as a whole. A Google Earth Oceans exhibit enables viewers to visit coral reefs around the world. The center’s theater shows films related to coastal resource issues.
In celebration of Eco Week, Reef Relief will show feature films daily at 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm.
Monday: Waters of Wonder: Discover the beauty of coral reefs, their importance and why they must be saved. Filmed by local underwater photographer Tom Jackson and narrated by Reef Relief’s former Educational Director Joel Biddle. 49 minutes
Tuesday: IMAX Deep Sea: Narrated by Academy Award nominees Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet and produced by the makers of the IMAX movie Into the Deep, this stunning film is an exploration of the world beneath the sea and its bizarre and exotic inhabitants. From translucent jellyfish to giant octopuses to scorpion fish, viewers will be introduced to a host of unique creatures, all completely dependent on one another for their survival. 41 minutes
Wednesday: Coral Reef Adventure: By way of IMAX technology, be transported below the ocean’s surface to an amazing underwater world, as explorers Howard and Michele Hall dive on a coral reef in the pristine waters of the South Pacific. With Jean-Michel Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, the team explores and captures on film one of the most beautiful places on Earth … in all its fragile splendor. Liam Neeson provides narration. 43 minutes
Thursday: The Cove: Tells one of the most inspiring true stories of our time. When an elite team of activists, filmmakers and free divers embark on a covert mission to penetrate a remote and hidden cove in Japan, they shine a light on a dark and deadly secret. This unforgettable story has inspired audiences around the world to action and raised hopes that thousands of the most magnificent wild animals on Earth can be saved. 96 minutes
Friday: Waters of Wonder encore: Discover the beauty of coral reefs, their importance and why they must be saved. Filmed by local underwater photographer Tom Jackson and narrated by Reef Relief’s former Educational Director Joel Biddle. 49 minutes
For more information call (305)294-3100 or email at reefrelief@gmail.com
This Sunday, 10/10/10, in every corner of the globe, groups will gather to support solutions to the climate change crisis. From solar panels to community gardens, wind turbines to bike workshops, we’ll start to change our world from the bottom up.
Oceana will be sponsoring a Key West event to collect hand written letters to our Senators to urge the government to ban any further offshore drilling. We will be taking photos and broadcasting them to show the support that we have built here in Key West and demonstrate the passion we have for our ocean environment and the change that we want to see happen. We will be holding fact signs about oil dependence and alternative energy stretching from the intersection of Truman and Duval St to the Southernmost Pier. There will be several tables set up with snacks, and letter writing materials at Southernmost Pier (end of Duval St by Southernmost Hotel). There will be music AND anyone who comes and gets 5 letters written will get an Oceana T-shirt!
When: Noon to 2 pm, meet at Southernmost pier.
Where: From the intersection of Truman St and Duval St., along Duval Street, stretching to Southernmost Pier.
Come, bring your friends!
Starting October 10, JustGive will add $10 to every donation made for 10 days.* a single donation from each donor will qualify for the additional $10 from JustGive. Donations as small as $10 are accepted. Click the link and select Reef Relief to make a donation.
http://justgive.org/10years
Sunday October 10th, 2010
Two films about global climate change will be screened for free in Key West and Marathon Sunday. The Sanctuary Friends is co-hosting the event for Climate Action Day.
“The Age of Stupid” will be shown at 10:00am, 2:00pm, and 4:00pm at the Eco-Discovery Center, 33 E. Quay Road, at Truman Annex, Key West
“Fuel” will be shown at 4:00pm in the Bray Building, 12 Loggerhead Lane, Behind the Panda House, Marathon.
For more info contact Diana Ruelens at 305-289-2288 or Diana@SanctuaryFriends.org or visit the www.350.org website
