Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan are hiking, biking, rafting and kayaking the 1,172 km route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline through Alberta and British Columbia in order to get a first hand account of the impact the project will have.
On July 10th they cycled out of Fort McMurray, the source of the oil that will [...]
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Featured Expedition: Frank Wolf voyages the Enbridge pipeline
August 23rd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Enbridge pipeline · Frank Wolf · On the line · Todd McGowan
Featured Expedition: Margo Pellegrino paddles Seattle to San Diego
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
Margo Pellegrino, 43, is paddling 2,500 km from Seattle to San Diego to raise awareness about four key issues facing our oceans: acidification, plastic pollution, overfishing and pollution from storm water runoff.
She left Seattle on July 3rd in her Pueo OC-1 canoe and expects to reach San Diego in August. A hundred paddlers in OC-1 [...]
Tags: Blue Frontiers Campaign · Margo Pellegrino · OC-1 · paddling · Seattle to San Diego
Featured Expedition: David de Rothschild on the Plastiki
June 20th, 2010 1 Comment
Ninety three days ago eco-adventurer David de Rothschild along with a small crew left San Francisco for Sydney Australia in one of the most eco-friendly large sailboats ever designed. Their 60 foot catamaran is made out of 12,500 plastic bottles, recycled plastic, reused cloth and reclaimed aluminum. Electricity is generated by solar panels, wind turbines and [...]
Tags: david de rothchild · ocean · plastic pollution · plastiki
Featured Adventure - Andrew Skurka
April 19th, 2010 No Comments
Endurance adventurer Andrew Skurka (28) is tackling yet another epic journey – skiing, rafting and hiking a continuous 7,500 km circuit through Alaska and the Yukon.
Five weeks ago, on March 15th, he set off from Kotzebue, a small Alaskan city that borders the Bering Sea and sits 50 km north of the Arctic Circle. [...]
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Featured Expeditions - Bertrand Piccard - Around the world on a wing and a ray of sunshine
December 8th, 2009 Comments Off
Bertrand Piccard, famous for being the first to complete a non-stop balloon circumnavigation of the world, is working on a new project that seems at odds with the laws of physics. Piccard, and his team of scientists, engineers, and physicists is working on Solar Impulse, an effort to create an aircraft capable of remaining aloft indefinitely without the [...]
Tags: Bertrand Piccard · solar impulse · solar powered aircraft
Featured Expeditions - Jessica Watson - Sailing around the world at 16
October 11th, 2009 No Comments
A collision with a 63,000 tonne cargo vessel would probably put most people off sailing for life. Not for 16-year-old Jessica Watson of Australia who considers it just part of training in her attempt to be the youngest to sail around the world solo. Jessica was sailing alone from Australia’s Sunshine Coast en route [...]
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Featured Expeditions - Ed Stafford - first to walk the Amazon River
September 8th, 2009 3 Comments
Ed Stafford has been walking beside the Amazon River for 524 days, but he’s still a long way from reaching the end and his goal of becoming the first person to walk the length of the world’s largest river.
A 33-year-old former British Army captain who looks the part - tall with a stocky build [...]
Tags: Ed Stafford · walking the Amazon
Featured Expeditions - Zac Sunderland – Youngest to Sail Around the World Solo
August 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Back in the late 1960s Robin Lee Graham became the youngest to sail around the world in a journey famously recorded in the book “Dove”. Many cruising sailors (including myself) were inspired to head out to sea after reading the enchanting tale of Graham’s five-year voyage.
Since then Robin Lee Graham’s record has been broken by [...]
Tags: sailing · youngest to sail around the world · Zac Sunderland
Featured Expeditions: Roz Savage rows across the Pacific
June 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Roz Savage is en route to becoming the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. She left Hawaii on May 25th and has rowed 400 km towards the tiny island of Tuvalu, still some 3,700 km away. This is the second leg of her three-part, 13,000 km journey that began in the USA [...]
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Canadian Sam Whittingham Shatters Speed Record
May 1st, 2009 2 Comments
Of the 100 billion or so humans that have ever existed there is only one that has travelled faster than 130 km per hour using only his muscles. Canadian Sam Whittingham of Quadra Island, BC has propelled himself faster than any Olympic athlete or Tour de France hero in his custom-made bullet-shaped recumbent bicycle. His [...]
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