This Week in Ladyslider News: Your World JR Champ Macy Callaghan, Prawn Shopping Bags & Upcoming Events!
- Congratulations to Australian Macy Callaghan, who is now your 2016 World Junior Champion!
- Check out the incredible and inspiring story of surf photographer Shannon Glasson. Shannon was told that she wouldn't walk and now she is shooting big waves from the lineup with now fear. Bad ass!
- Ocean + Art: Check out these stunning photos of Europe's first underwater museum.
- In the innovative sustainability category: Bioengineers at the University Nottingham are trialing the use of shrimp shells to make biodegradable shopping bags as a 'green' alternative to oil-based plastics, and as a new food packaging material to extend product shelf life.
- Vo Quy, father of environmental conservation in Vietnam, dies at 87. Vo was responsible for incredible feats in environmental conservation, including persuading Vietnam's top leaders to designate a tract of land for the country's first national park, pioneering studies on Vietnam's wildlife, advocating policies such as the country's first biodiversity action plan and teaching how to balance economic development with environmental protection.
- Upcoming events: Be sure to cruise by Sloopy's in El Porto for "Life Aquatic: Ocean dwellers + Storytellers" on Thursday, January 19 at 7:00 PM; Legend of the Iron Seahorse LA Premiere held at Kit & Ace on Abbot Kinney in Venice at 6:30 PM on January 19.