Jon Bowermaster | Climate Change: Hudson River Stories | Talks at Google

Jon Bowermaster discusses his work on the Hudson River Stories project, which explores climate change and other environmental challenges for the Hudson River Valley, the birthplace of the American environmental movement. Writer, filmmaker and adventurer Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes,’ his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. Jon has written eleven books and produced/directed more than thirty documentary films, including Dear President Obama, Antarctica On the Edge, After the Spill and Ghost Fleet. His National Geographic-sponsored Oceans 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak over the course of ten years (1999-2008), bringing back stories from the Aleutian Islands to French Polynesia, Gabon to Tasmania, and more, reporting on how the planet’s one ocean and its various coastlines are faring in today’s busy world. Jon is the President of the One Ocean Media Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Adventure Science, a member of Riverkeeper’s Leadership Council and Creative Affiliate of The Safina Center. For the past several years, Jon and his One Ocean Media Foundation / Oceans 8 Films team have focused on a series of short films called the Hudson River Stories, which dives into the risks to, and hopes for the Hudson River Valley, the birthplace of the American environmental movement. Jon is currently a visiting lecturer at Bard College, in the Environment and Urban Studies Department, and has a weekly radio show/podcast called The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster. For more on the Hudson River Stories project, please visit http://hudsonriverstories.com/. Moderated by Katy Kasmai.

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