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December 5, 2013 5:42pm“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~Nelson Mandela
More“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~Nelson Mandela
MoreOn 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
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
MoreThe 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.
MoreSebastian 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/
MorePole 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
More400. 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
MoreMy 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
MoreWho are your heroes? That question was recently asked Sebastian by Adventure Journal. Who are yours?
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