I'm standing ON the Bering Sea off of Nome, Alaska looking to the South. I'm here to see for myself the impacts of sea level rise and melting permafrost. My guides are two high school juniors, young environmental activists working to protect their indigenous lands and waters and what should rightfully be theirs. 

Thanks to Windy Films' photographer Julianne Snow Gauron for the amazing pictures. More to come...

​Talk about wild and remote...and magnificent! This area approaching the Copper River Watershed gives you some sense of the extent to which our travels have taken us in search of inspiring young environmental activists. We started in Cordova on Prince William Sound and had a wonderful visit with the Laird family on board their 56' cutter, the s/v Seal. This family: mom, dad and two daughters have lived on board and traveled to the high latitudes in both the northern and southern hemispheres, New Zealand, the South Pacific and the Sea of Japan. The girls have been homeschooled (one is currently a freshman at Dartmouth and the other to enter Oxford next fall). They are both wonderfully representative of the kind of smart, committed, inspiring youth that our search around the world seeks to identify. Thank you Laird's for a wonderful evening on board.  Check out their website, www.expeditionsail.com . We also had the opportunity to visit the offices of the Eyak Preservation Council, www.eyakpreservationcouncil.org, and the Copper River Watershed Project, www.copperriver.org, both of which are doing amazing work. Thank you Lisa, Kate and Skye for your time, your perspective and your enthusiastic support for the House on Fire project.

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Three weeks from today I arrive in Alaska to begin introducing the Planet Oceans/Windy Originals team and our documentary series House on Fire to youth activists whose incredible work will be featured in the first of this six episode documentary series. Our travels will begin in Anchorage, travel out to the town of Cordova and then on up to Nome. We are genuinely excited to meet some truly impressive young people, their families, their teachers and advisors and many of the environmental and indigenous organizations who have supported their work.  More to come.

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