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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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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Sebastian Appears on Take Part Live

October 24, 2013 1:26pm

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

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Gagosian Gallery and Sebastian Copeland Join forces for the NRDC

October 4, 2013 8:26pm

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.

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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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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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“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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