National Geographic's biggest fan here at Banff, Jim Olver, gave us a tour of the Banff Centre yesterday and introduced us to the Leighton Artists' Colony, which Banff supports in addition to the Mountain Films.
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National Geographic photographer Steve Winter had the Banff festival audience laughing and gasping as he shared gorgeous photographs and riveting stories of capturing the rare snow leopard in Ladakh, India. Extreme altitude and cold, plus some exhausting travel, had made for an emotionally stressful time for Steve, but fun stories for us!
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October 13, 2009 11:30 AM
Fresh from dives with National Geographic Fellow Enric Sala and other marine scientists at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas, Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle appears tonight with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, where she’ll discuss her new book The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One.
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The 2009 Fellows from Pop!Tech–led by National Geographic Fellow Andrew Zolli–have been announced, and this year the group includes the amazing Eben Bayer of Ecovative Design. Eben and fellow RPI graduate Gavin McIntyre were fascinated by mushrooms growing on wood chips and observed how the fungi strongly bonded the wood chips together. This observation led them into a business developing green materials using this sticky organism. Their packaging is an amazing 100% compostable and biodegradable because it's made from seed husks and mushroom roots!
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September 8, 2009 11:10 AM
Our latest book, long overdue, is to be released by Rizzoli in New York in September. We have just received copies of Eye of the Leopard, and we are delighted with the printing and the way it has turned out. Most of all we hope that the book does justice, in its small way, to the delights of sharing the world with animals such as this—and in particular like Legadema, the leopard character of the book.
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August 18, 2009 7:03 PM
Yesterday afternoon at around 2:30, the headwaters of the Okavango met up with the river flow down the Selinda, joining up the Selinda Spillway for the first time in 30 years!
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