Posts Tagged ‘Iceland’

Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”

Dec 11th, 2012
by Candice Gaukel Andrews.
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Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate. In the recently released Chasing Ice, National Geographic photographer James Balog trains revolutionary, time-lapse cameras on glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and Glacier National Park in order to capture a multiyear, undeniable [...]

Taking the Best Trip You Never Dreamed About

Jan 24th, 2012
by Candice Gaukel Andrews.
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Now, about the middle of January, is the time when I start to dream about the places I’d like to visit. The snow and cold have gotten a good foothold here in the Midwest, the frantic rush of the holidays is over, and there’s an urge to fill the hole the exciting time of December [...]

Natural Disasters: An Eco-Tourism Tool?

Apr 5th, 2011
by Candice Gaukel Andrews.
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In 1951, Kirk Douglas starred in a B movie titled The Big Carnival (originally released as Ace in the Hole). I saw it as a kid, many years later, when the trend was to play old movies on TV on Saturday afternoons. In the flick, Kirk plays a former big-city journalist on the downside of [...]

“Rocking the Cure” for Climate Change

Apr 19th, 2010
by Candice Gaukel Andrews.
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As each one of your incandescent light bulbs burns out, you change it to a compact fluorescent. You’ve promised yourself that you’ll never again buy water in a plastic bottle, and you dutifully refill your aluminum canteen from the tap. When you travel, you always buy carbon offsets. On a personal level, you feel you’ve [...]