Going Viral

A great new app from my friends at PhotoShelter. They have enabled widget sharing of galleries. This means that these images can go Viral around the internet. Below you will see 30 of Cape Farewell Youth Expedition selects. This widget allows us to share and embed this code in various places around the net to share the images. Click on the up arrow on the right and copy the code. Then you can embed it into the html of whichever blog you like.
Have Fun!

University of Prince Edward Island - Presentation

Last week I had the unique opportunity to present to the Global Issues 101 class at the University of Prince Edward Island. The presentation was about the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition and got the class thinking how youth can engage on the issue of Climate Change. It was a great chance to spread the word about the Cape Farewell Expedition and at the same time kick start some active discussion on Climate Change. Thanks to Max Hamon and UPEI for this opportunity.

New Published Page

An sorely needed update to the website is underway. I have just finished up dating the Published section. Although there are still a few things to add, it is now much more visual and easy to use. Take a look.

Canadian Geographic Goes Cape Farewell

I was happily browsing through the Canadian Geographic website today to look for screen shots of the Paris article and I came across the most comprehensive account of the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition (outside of the Cape Farewell Canada website) that I have seen. Check out the images, videos and stories.

Climate Change - Youth in Utrecht

It took me three planes, one train and a short taxi ride but I have arrived back in Holland.

Oddly enough I was contacted by a friend of mind who was by a great coincidence doing a presentation to the University College Utrecht on Youth Engagement in Climate Change. So, somewhat jet legged, I cycled the five minutes over the dining hall and listened to David Noble from 2 Degrees C talk about Youth Engagment. His talk about what youth are doing to help stop Climate Change was well done and contained many of the images that I created in Bali last year. It prompted some great discussion amongst the students and got people thinking about how they can be active and make a difference.

Cape Farewell Images

I realize that I have been very very silent on the Blog front since returning from the Cape Farewell Voyage. My excuse shall be that I needed time to absorb all the information and visuals that I was bombarded with for two weeks aboard a ship. And of course some time to edit the 9000+ images.

For those of you that are not aware of the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition 08 a bit of information. The British Council of Canada organized an expedition for 28 international youth to travel to the Arctic to learn about climate change. Cape Farewell is an organization that was started by David Buckland, a British artist, who realized that we needed to communicate the problem of Climate Change much better. So for the last seven years he has been taking artists into the North to inspire them to create something about Climate Change. The British Council of Canada took this idea and ran with it to create a youth expedition. Focusing on the fact that by changing a few young minds, they will return to their schools and make changes that will build into a great movement.

The British Council engaged me to shoot and document their project and what an experience it was. Working with 28 incredible youth and an incredible team of professionals, we spent two weeks traveling from Iceland - Greenland - Baffin Island. All the time discussing the growing issue of Climate Change. The days were packed with Scientific measurements and art projects to draw attention to this issue that will affect all of us. But, enough blather from me, why not check out the blogs, images and creations of this fascinating voyage.

There are preparations to create a traveling exhibit of these images. Stay tuned for more information....