One would think that taking a ramble in Britain sans clothing would be a bit uncomfortable. Serious shrinkage, no
doubt. But Stephen Gough, 45, who walked the
length of Britain in the nude says he’s contemplating doing it again, perhaps with a friend. The former Royal
Marine says we’re just too bashful about our bodies, and so this is his unique way of showing people in this part of
Britain, well, his parts.
Lonnie Dupree is an explorer, sea kayaker and author of Greenland Expedition: Where Ice Is Born. He has
undertaken some major expeditions in his career and with explorer Eric Larsen will soon set off on a summer crossing of
the Arctic Sea, by way of the North Pole, a very serious, major expedition. The expedition hopes to create awareness of
global climate change. Here is a well-done and informative profile of Dupree in Sea Kayaker
Magazine wherein he discusses his next great adventure and some of his past expeditions.
Well, if the recent
New Yorker series of articles on global
warming have not satisfied your desire to know more about the world’s imminent end, you might get your early
morning jolt not just from your coffee, but from your coffee mug. This (rather silly, I admit)
mug shows how the world might look should certain predictions about
global warming come to pass.
Not really the way I like to start the day, but you know, different strokes for different folks.
(via Coudal)
While I have complained in the past about celebrities and their causes, I thought that this
new program was worth mentioning in a positive way. Strange
Days on Planet Earth is a new series showing soon on the Nat Geo Channel that tries to raise our green awareness.
And Ed Norton, whose attorney father is director of the Nature
Conservancy China Project and played a role in the development of the film, is the host of the series. Norton has
some “credibility heft”, as I like to put it, since he has been an environmenal advocate for a long time and, thanks to
his father, is fairly well-versed in the issues he’s talking about. He’s also a fairly avid outdoorsman.
A few months ago I went to the Explorers Club film
festival and actually got to see several of these films. I also spoke
with Mark Shelley, the Executive Producer
who told me that the films, lavishly produced, were almost like feature films in their complexity and production value.
And to be honest, they are excellent films. Amazingly shot and wonderfully told. You may not agree with the various
theses: that we have serious environmental problems when it comes to global warming, deforestation, etc., but you can’t
deny that the films do a good job making their point. Tivo these shows.
I have to admit that when I read the title of this
article I became very curious. Trekking Lake Baikal? I didn’t even know Lake Baikal was trekkable. What I do know
about the lake is that it’s the oldest and deepest lake in the world, but that over the last decades it has
become something of an environmental disaster with serious pollution problems among others. While this article
doesn’t really take on the environmental aspects of Lake Baikal, it’s still an interesting read and definitely
furthered my curiosity about the Baikal region.