“Into The Cold” Named Top 25 Documentaries List for 2013

July 25, 2014 10:46am

Video Librarian Lists Into The Cold one of 2013’s Top Documentaries.

Sebastian Copeland’s North Pole documentary made the coveted Video Librarian’s Top 25 Documentaries List for 2013 alongside Searching For Sugarman and We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks. 

Into The Cold–A Journey Of The Soul (2011) retraces two men’s journey on foot to the North Pole to commemorate Admiral’s Peary’s centennial reach in 1909. Directed by Sebastian Copeland, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is now playing on Netfilx in the US, and is available with a special limited edition DVD on this website.

Order it now and get a blanket!

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Happy Penguin Day!

April 25, 2014 8:04pm

Today is World Awareness Penguin Day.

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Gentoo Penguins near the Gerlach Strait, Antarctica Peninsula 2006.

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Sebastian on Air with WQNA’s Flyover Zone

April 20, 2014 7:14pm

Sebastian was on air for the WQNA 88.3FM Flyover Zone hour with Hugh Moore and friends, on April 20th, discussing systemic changes in the polar regions and polar travel. You can find a recording of the show here.

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Great News: Japan Suspends Whale killing in the Southern Oceans for 2014!

April 2, 2014 7:27pm

Big New For Whales in the Southern Seas

Following the International Court of Justice’s ruling, Japan has officially cancelled all plans to hunt whales in the Southern Ocean in 2014. This will be the first year since 1904 that no whales will be hunted in Antarctic waters.

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Interactive Map of New Coastline after Ice Melt

December 20, 2013 6:06pm

Check out this interactive map showing coastal erosion from melting ice, potentially displacing up to 80% of the world’s population. This is not a science fiction plot. It represents the ocean rise from melting ice, sitting above land, slowly re-drawing our world map. On average, 100 feet of coastal ground is lost to each foot of ocean rise.

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Into The Cold now available on Netflix

November 21, 2013 5:21pm

As of November, Sebastian’s North Pole adventure film, Into The Cold–A Journey of the Soulcan be seen on demand on Netflix. The film chronicles Sebastian and partner Keith Heger’s centennial reach of the North Pole to commemorate Admiral Peary and team’s 1909 mission. The film premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally. The Hollywood Reporter called it one of the five Must-See-Films of the festival. It has been released internationally since.

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LA Bans single use plastic bags. Finally!

June 18, 2013 5:52pm

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.storyturtle-plastic-bag-under-water-deep-sea-blue-ocean-garbage-trash-ecology-swim-fish-pollution-caught-shell-legs-toes-feet-head-photo

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400 PPM

May 13, 2013 5:40pm

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

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Sebastian’s Artwork to be Exhibited at Lake Geneva

August 14, 2012 11:32am

Throughout the month of September, Green Cross International will be featuring a photo exhibit to be held at the Quai Wilson exhibit space on the Lake Geneva promenade. Sebastian is proud to be one of the photographers collaborating on this project.

Click on the image below for more info!

 

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