After barnstorming through much of the midwsest the Veterans for American Power tour is heading to the nation's capitol today. Since the tour started in Arkansas Oct 12, we been to dozens to towns and cities in a half dozen states, including Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and West Virgnia. The vets on the bus are from a wide range of services and tours, ranging from Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf to recent tours to Afghanistan. They all have been spreading the message that climate change is...
A few years ago, the African Wildlife Foundation presented me with an unusual request: build a new school for Maasai children in Tanzania... one that is not right in the middle of an elephant breeding ground, preferably, and one in which the children would not have to share their playground with wandering lions, zebras, and other wild animals.We thought that sounded pretty reasonable. And so began the Manyara Ranch school project. See the video below for the introduction to the project. Follow up...
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October 10th, Moffen Island, 80°N, 14.5°E From this completely flat island on the horizon we see nothing, as if we are deposited in some alien sea. It is strangely warm and moist, nothing like the endless winter one might imagine at the end of the road of darkness. Through September it is forbidden to land on this island in case breeding walruses and seabirds might be disturbed. By October the law permits us, and it is now possible to walk right up to huddled walruses and tap them on the...
On Wednesday, Oct 13, the Veterans for American Power pulled out of St Louis in its brilliant Navy blue bus, wrapped with the names of 66 cities and towns in the 22 states that the bus tours will visit this month. Our busload of veterans, nicknamed "Team Alpha," assembled in the early morning darkness for a 6 am departure from St. Louis to Jefferson City, the capital of the Show Me State. There the vets were met by a variety of media, including the CBS station KRCG-TV, the Jefferson City News Tribune...
October 9th, Sallyhamnen, 79.7° N 11.2°E Today we saw three fat walruses asleep in front of an abandoned cabin. A wet snow fell from a dark gray sky. Later we came across seven polar bears eating the rotting carcass of a minke whale. From the peaks above they had slid down fat tracks indented in the snow, making the whole area look like a polar bear ski resort. Baby bears played in the snow with their parents and each other. Two arctic foxes padded by, hoping for a taste. The mouths of...
October 8th, Fourteenth of July Bay, Krossfjorden, Spisbergen 79.2Ą N 12ĄE We have been out two nights, a hundred year old schooner populated by fourteen artists, two scientists, and a crew of four, and already we have met a phenonemon of nature that cannot be captured in an image. The aurora borealis is a beautiful piece of natural performance art cannot be filmed or photographed. A time-lapse photo reveals only fuzzy colors, and a moving image cannot get enough light to capture the dynamic strangeness of it...
Greetings from the Veterans for American Power Tour! Over the next two weeks, I'll be travelling with a group of veterans through the Midwest and down the East Coast.Why did these veterans, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, sign up to take a bus across America? Because they recognize that clean energy solutions are essential for America's economy, our climate and our national security.The veterans have come together for an unprecedented 21-state journey organized by Operation Free to talk to citizens and...
My latest film is a beautiful, independent documentary called "ACID TEST" that explores the urgent problem of rising ocean acidity caused by our burning of fossil fuels. The 22-minute film premiered in August on Discovery Planet Green and is now available online at www.acidtestmovie.com.The website enables you to see the whole film, take action to reduce carbon dioxide...
With World Food Day approaching on the 16th, I started thinking — not about world hunger, but rather about how cultures approach food so differently. Globalization has brought a lot of changes, especially in the world of food: pineapples in the dead of a Michigan winter, Belgian chocolates in Goa, peanut butter in sub-Saharan Africa. And that's just on the surface; I won't even get into the deeper economic impact of the global food trade.But there are still some...
