The Excellent Adventure

My heroes are in tears.
http://rozsavage.com/2009/12/17/cop15-t-1-weeping-for-the-world/
http://www.350.org/about/blogs/end-day-update
http://tcktcktck.org/stories/campaign-stories/open-letter-president-obama
I was so hoping for some kind of grand gesture. And I suppose Obama might yet swoop in and deliver. If so, I’ll even forgive him the finance crisis. But so far? It’s looking like business as usual, where the rich and powerful make theater and the poor and disenfranchised suffer.
I’ll [...]

Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, Environment, Roz Savage

This just in from the indomitable Roz Savage:

Dear Friends
My first book, “Rowing The Atlantic: Lessons Learned On The Open Ocean” is in bookstores from Oct 6, and my publishers Simon & Schuster have organized a promotional tour of the US. I’m really excited about it all. The publishers have done a fantastic job on the production, [...]

Tags: book tour, Environment, rowing, Roz Savage

Roz Savage has launched on the second leg of her Pacific row, from Hawaii to Tuvalu, provided it’s still above water when she gets there.
Check out this absolutely spectacular Roz Tracker: http://www.rozsavage.com/rztracker/tracker/RozTracker.html#
I did some online community consulting for her when she was here, and am handling one shift of doing her website updates per day, [...]

Tags: Environment, rowing, Roz Savage, technology

Graciously, Jason agreed to spend his 36th birthday in the presence of greatness.
Because the internet is rapidly making the world a smaller place, and because I used to row on the mighty Califa Rowing Team, coached by Kathryn Robinson, and Kathy knew Roz from when they rowed on a Greek Trireme, and because I blog, [...]

Tags: intrepid, musings, oceans, rowing, Roz Savage

http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/GUMBK6
Roz says on her blog…
AMEX GRANTS
I’ve asked a number of favours from you already – to make a Blue Pledge, to donate to my wheelchair-bound friend David’s hand bike – but I have one more. It’s really important to me, and won’t cost you a penny. Amex are giving substantial grants to worthy causes, based [...]

Tags: Environment, Roz Savage

If you guys aren’t familiar with Roz Savage, go check her out here.
I was introduced to Roz’s site, her journey, and her rowing, by my rowing coach for Califa (the whaleboat team I was part of in Vallejo). Katherine rowed with Roz on a trireme in Greece. You can go to Roz’s site and read [...]

Tags: rowing, Roz Savage