On October 22, Sebastian appeared on a TV panel for Participant Media’s Take Part Live w/Kevin Hand, Planetary Scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, to discuss climate change at the poles.
For some (odd?) reason, Take Part will not release the full segment. They did however allow this clip. Enjoy!
http://video.takepart.com/previews/18CHzrzf-hZng8bxh
The Gagosian Gallery in Berverly Hills teamed up with Sebastian for a special showing of his polar images to benefit the environmental non-profit the NRDC. The gallery show highlighted the threatened polar environment while 100% of the sales went to the NRDC for their advocacy campaigns on climate change.
Joel Reynolds, Western director of the NRDC, gave a short talk about the organization’s work, and Sebastian, a long time board member of the NGO Global Green USA shared his experiences shooting in the polar regions, and their significance to the health of the planet.
A special limited NRDC edition of 3 was created for this occasion. The image below sold out of its edition. It remains available for private sale in two different sizes.
Sebastian participated in a televised panel on climate change called 24 Hours of Climate Reality. The panel examined climate transformations taking place in the Arctic and their global consequences. Vice president Al Gore, Dr.Stephen Pekar, adventurer Doug Stoup and other joined the panel. You can view the segment here:
http://climaterealityproject.org/24hours2012/live-broadcast/hour-05-the-arctic/
Pole to Pole: A Global Warning–How the Ice Foretells the Next Systemic Transformation
Sebastian was invited by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, as an Oppenheimer speaker on October 24, 2012. The Oppenheimer series invites two speakers a year to address global issues, with one class lecture in the afternoon, and a keynote at the Fowler auditorium in the evening. The evening session was sold out days before the event, but a video brief of the talk was recorded earlier in the day. This is the brief:
http://www.environment.ucla.edu/events/event.php?event=16
LA finally makes the only responsible choice and bans single use plastic bags. It is just a matter of time for the rest of the nation to follow suit. But when?
There are plastic gyres around the world, floating in the ocean, some exceeding the size of France or Texas in square footage. It is a disgrace.
This is one step in reducing that waste and forging a path towards sustainable living. Well done Los Angeles!
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-plastic-bags-20130618,0,6576624.story
400. That is the symbolic milestone of concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in parts per million. It is increasing at the rate of 2.5 PPM per year and seems to accelerate. Not in at least one million years has the planet seen such high concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases in the atmosphere.
If you wonder what it means, this is the most direct threat to humanity and most living species that have thrived on this planet for the last 65 million years.
We cannot grow in perpetuity in a finite environment. It is time to have less and do more, and do more intelligently with what we have at our disposal.
Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/climate-change/index.html
Here is a free link to the Men’s Journal article of the Antarctica Legacy Crossing which was published last October 2012. It’s a riveting condensed account of the blog (which you can read here http://sebastiancopelandadventures.com/antarcticaexpedition). The article “81 Days on the Ice” retraces the first East/West transcontinental crossing of Antarctica from coast to coast that Sebastian led from November 2011 to February 2012 with partner Eric McNair Landry on the 100 year anniversary of the South Pole.
You can read it here: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/81-days-on-the-ice-20130704
Sebastian’s show “A Million Faces Of Ice” opened at the beautiful Bernheimer Gallery in Munich, Germany. It will be on display from March 8
to April 13, 2013 You can also visit the gallery virtually here: http://www.bernheimer.com/photography/en/exhibition/371/antarctica-a-million-faces-of-ice-0
My new exhibition “A Million Faces Of Ice” has just premiered in Munich at the Bernheimer Gallery. The show is a retrospective of multiple trips to the poles, and features some of the new works from Antarctica. It will be up until the middle of April. If you cannot see it there, you can visit the show here:
http://www.bernheimer.com/photography/en/exhibition/371/antarctica-a-million-faces-of-ice-0
MoreThe Arctic Awards 2012 awarded Sebastian a special medal on behalf of the FIAP (Federation Int’l de l’Art Photographic) for his image Moonrise on the Greenland Ice (below). Sebastian also received a Photography Society of America (PSA) ribbon for another image: Reflections at Otto Fjord.
