Great News–Oil Giant Total Warns Against Drilling in the Arctic

December 15, 2013 6:00pm

One small victory at a time. Oil giant Total has warned against Arctic exploitation citing the natural conditions and high risk for a disasters like Deep Horizon. Shell still in the game.

 

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Sebastian hosts the European hour for Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality

October 23, 2013 1:14pm

On October 22nd, Sebastian hosted and moderated the European hour for Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality, focusing on the cost of carbon in Europe. The hour examined the 500 year flood in Germany in the spring of 2013, the adaptation programs of the Netherlands to rising sea levels, and the 2010 wildfires in Russia that sparked the Arab Spring.

The hour featured short documentaries on rising infrastructural cost from climate related events in Europe and around the globe; it featured a panel on the rising cost of carbon with Dr. Rosina Bierbaum (University of Michigan), Maggie Fox (President & CEO of Climate Reality), Marta Szigeti Bonifert (Environment Committee of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum), and Cors Beekman (Room for the River, Netherlands) with Sebastian moderating; the hour closed with an address by Vice President Al Gore. You can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDiOc51LLMYCost of Carbon: Europe

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Sebastian on a panel with Vice President Al Gore for an hour of Climate Reality

July 31, 2013 12:29pm

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/

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Sebastian’s Oppenheimer Keynote at UCLA

July 10, 2013 2:27pm

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

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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 Men’s Journal article on the Antarctica crossing

April 9, 2013 5:18pm

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

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“A Million Faces of Ice” premiers at the Bernheimer Gallery in Munich

March 23, 2013 1:37am

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

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Antarctica: A Million Face Of Ice — Munich Gallery Opening

March 10, 2013 2:15pm

                                 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

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