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Prairie Public Radio - Climate Change, with Will Steger Featured
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Monday, November 26 – We discuss clean energy and global warming with Will Steger, Minnesota’s own eyewitness to climate change, and J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director at Fresh Energy. They’re appearing at Concordia College.
Polar explorer helping unmask environmental problems Featured
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Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) - Not many in this life can list their job title as -- explorer. That's exactly what Will Steger is, specializing in traveling to the North Pole.
Explorer Will Steger regales Hawley students with tales of adventure
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Hawley, MN (WDAY TV) -
He's a modern day Marco Polo, circling the coldest parts of the world. This afternoon, Hawley students got a rare treat - hearing from explorer and Minnesota native Will Steger.
After Dog Sledding Across Poles, Steger Tells of Ice Melting
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DULUTH, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - Will Steger has climbed mountains, traversed the Mississippi and dog sledded across Antarctica, but his message to Duluthians Wednesday was not about what he has done, but what he has seen.
Polar explorer Will Steger is known for his travels in the arctic, but he made a stop in Duluth on Wednesday night to talk about climate change.
TPT's Almanac program attends the 1986 North Pole Expedition reunion event at the MN History Center. David Gillette tracks Will Steger and other team members during the event.
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On May 1st 1986 Will Steger, Paul Schurke and Ann Bancroft, all from Minnesota, were among six hardy souls who became the first documented, unsupported dog sled expedition to the North Pole.
This week the original eight members of the team are all gathered in St Paul to celebrate the anniversary, the first time they have all been together since the event.
Jason Davis was the only television reporter to cover the expedition and on Sunday night at 10.30 he will include some of his exclusive video as he interviews Will Steger and Ann Bancroft about their lives since reaching the North Pole a quarter of a century ago.
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Relive the trials and triumphs of the historic 1986 expedition to the North Pole with Minnesotans Will Steger, Paul Schurke and Ann Bancroft, Canada's Brent Boddy and Richard Weber and New Zealand's Geoff Carroll and Bob McKerrow.
They endured 56 days skiing and dog sledding over a thousand miles of shifting sea ice with temperatures dipping as low as minus 76. The team will share stories, slides and film footage and also reveal the dramatic ways the Arctic has changed over the past 25 years.
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WCCO-TV covers the 1986 North Pole Expedition's 25th reunion
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It’s been 25 years since Minnesota-native Will Steger made a historic journey across the arctic. In May 2011, he and the other 7 team members celebrate the 25th anniversary at the Minnesota History Center.Click here to view the video.
Siiri Bigalke, a senior at Stillwater HS and Cole Norgaarden, a 10th grader at the Blake School in Minneapolis, testified Tuesday, Mar. 8th at the Senate Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee during the hearing of S.F. 86 (Rosen) Carbon dioxide emissions increase by utilities ban removal; greenhouse gas control plan repeal. The bill proposes to repeal a Minnesota statute that limits carbon dioxide emissions by utilities, and effectively lift the statewide moratorium on new coal plants.
Youth Environmental Activists Minnesota (YEA! MN) is a joint program of the Will Steger Foundation and Alliance for Sustainability
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Siiri Bigalke, a senior at Stillwater HS and Cole Norgaarden, a 10th grader at the Blake School in Minneapolis, testified Thursday, Jan. 27 at the House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee during the hearing of House File 72. The bill proposes to repeal a Minnesota statute that limits carbon dioxide emissions by utilities, and effectively lift the statewide moratorium on new coal plants.
Youth Environmental Activists Minnesota (YEA! MN) is a joint program of the Will Steger Foundation and Alliance for Sustainability
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Will Steger appears on WCCO-TV about the 20th anniversary reunion of the 1989-90 International Trans-Antarctica expedition. This historic 3,741-mile, 222-day expedition can never be repeated because of the loss of ice shelves that the team crossed and the new regulations(1995) prohibiting non-indigenous introduction of dogs onto the Antarctica continent.Click here to view the video.
MINNEAPOLIS -- An environmental group pushing clean energy released a report Wednesday connecting 2010's bumper crop of extreme weather events to global warming from greenhouse gases. Those include wildfires in the West, drought-driven smog in Russia and historic floods in Pakistan and the U.S.
Fight against global warming can strike a blow for the economy, too
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August 18, 2010
by Will Steger
On a cold, dark day this past December, I faced my expedition team. Granted, we were not traveling across the Arctic, but the challenge that lay ahead wasn't that different from the minus 40 degree temperatures and strong winds my team had faced crossing Antarctica. On this day, our challenge lay in moving the U.S. Senate forward to see that it enacted the pledges President Obama had made at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen.
Aug. 12, 2010
by Kerri Miller
Where Politics and Science Should Not Mix.
WSF Summer Institute keynote speaker, Naomi Oreskes was the featured guest on Minnesota Public Radios Mid Morning program with Kerri Miller.
Oreskes, a science historian explains why some scientists are trying to undermine recent research on global warming and spread mistruths. She is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. Her latest book is called "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming."
Jul. 23, 2010
by Ira Flatow
The Race to the South Pole.
Almost one hundred years ago, two teams of explorers set off on dueling quests to be the first to reach the South Pole. One team returned victorious without losing a single man, while the other team perished. We'll take a look at a new museum exhibition that looks at the histories of explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott.
Featured guest is Will Steger Foundation's Baffin Island Expedition basecamp manager, John Huston.
See the online article from the NPR website - July. 23, 2010
Nicole Rom, Executive Director of the Will Steger Foundation is featured on the Medicom Newsleaders program.Click here to view the video.
Kristen Poppleton, K12 Education Program Manager for the Will Steger Foundation is featured on the Mediacom Newsleader program with host, David Gillette.Click here to view the video.
Will Steger Gives Hamline University 2010 Commencement Address
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Will Steger gives the Hamline University commencement address for both the undergraduate and graduate classes of 2010. In addition, Will is presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the University's president. Here is a short segment of Will's presentation to the undergraduate class of 2010.Click here to view the video.
Will Steger on the radio with Michael Stone
by Michael Stone
CONVERSATIONS, is a radio show hosted by Michael Stone, bringing you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment.
See the online article from the Are We Listening website - May 10, 2010
North Pole Musher Avid Advocate of Protecting Environment
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Will Steger Speaks to Alaska Public radio
by Lori Townsend
Renowned polar explorer Will Steger made the first documented un-supported sled dog trip to the North Pole in 1986. He is the author of “Over the Top of the World,” and other books, and has become a passionate advocate for taking measures to deal with the warming climate. APRN – Anchorage
See the online article from the Alaska Public Radio website - April 14, 2010
The World News Network features Will's recent visit to Franklin Pierce University and appearance on their program, Briefings. Click here to view the video.
ARCTIC EXPLORER TO SPEAK ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN BOZEMAN
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A world renowned expert on climate change at the world's poles is speaking in Bozeman Wednesday night.Arctic explorer Will Steger speaks at the Museum of the Rockies at 7 p.m. The talk is free to the public.
Steger says he has seen the devastation of climate change first hand. He has studied and travelled around the poles for 40 years.
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Montana Evening Edition, a half-hour Montana newscast from the award winning Montana Public Radio News Department features news from western and central Montana. Our in-depth feature and interview includes a visit with Minnesota's Will Steger. Steger, a polar explorer and formidable voice for the impact of climate change, provides an eyewitness account to the changes in our polar regions.
BILLINGS - It was packed house at the Billings Depot Tuesday night as polar explorer, Will Steger, shared his arctic experiences and run-ins with climate change during the Montana segment of his "Eyewitness to Climate Change" tour.
For the past 45 years Steger has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dogsled leading teams on some of the most significant polar expeditions in history.
And in those years he never imagined that in his lifetime he would have to change his agenda due to climate change. Click here to view the video.
Feb. 8, 2010
by Deb Courson
A long-time Arctic explorer wants Montanans to "see for themselves" how the pace of climate change has accelerated. Will Steger's film footage, taken on extreme polar expeditions over 40 years, shows how polar lakes have thawed, ice shelves have disintegrated and wildlife habitat has disappeared. That footage is on display in Billings, Bozeman and Missoula this week.
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Will Steger appears on WCCO Sunday Morning, speaking about the upcoming Freshwater Society event and his recent Expedition Copenhagen to the United Nations Framework Convemtion on Climate Change. Click here to view the video.
Will Steger appears on KARE-11 Showcase Minnesota, speaking about the upcoming Expedition Copenhagen in December and the importance of youth engagement in the climate policy discussions. Click here to view the video.
Elizabeth Andre speaks at Iowa Public Television
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Elizabeth Andre, 2007 Baffin Island Expedition Member, and Iowa State University graduate shares stories from her 1200-mile dogsled trek across Baffin Island with renowned polar explorer Will Steger and a team of Inuit hunters, explorers and educators. She also recounts Inuit stories of living in a rapidly warming climate and offers insights on meeting the challenge of global warming.
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Click Here to view the Baffin Island Expedition library.
Will appears on KARE-11 newscast to encourage people to attend the HIRE Minnesota Capitol Day event on April 20, 2009 at the MN State Capitol south lawn. Click here to view the video.
KSTP's Jason Davis features the HIRE Minnesota campaign with Will and Louis King for his On The Road segment. Click here to view the video.
Watch a recent interview with Will on KSTP Channel 5 Twin Cities Live, afternoon news magazine program. Click here to view the video.
The Will Steger Foundation Mashup commercial inspires the next generation in a call to action against global climate change. Click here to view the video.
TPT-2, Twin Cities Public Television produced a series of shorts called 'Legacy Letters'. Will Steger encourages a 'can do' spirit from Minnesotans to fight global warming. Click here to view the video.
This story 'Arctic Exploration: Adventure With a Cause', about the 2008 Ellesmere Island Expedition was featured on Al Gore's Current TV network. Click here to view the video.
National Geographic's Wild Chronicles captures another Steger story. This time the 2008 Ellesmere Island Expedition, a 1,400 mile dogsled expedition from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, around the northern coast of Ellesmere Island and ending in Eureka. The team was studying the loss of the last remaining ice shelves on the western hemisphere. The program airs nationally on PBS. Click here to view the video.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) program, The National, investigates Norwegian polar historian Tobias Thorleifsson's claim that his country has a stake in the sovereignty rights of the Sverdrup Islands in the Canadian Arctic. Click here to view the video.
Jan. 29, 2008
by Dick Gordon
Will Steger was featured on NPR's The Story, with host Dick Gordon. The program aired nationally on Jan 29th, 2008. .
TV2 in Oslo, Norway covers the story of Will and Ellesmere Island Expedition team member Tobias Thorleifsson during the Norway media tour. The story is recorded in Norwegian. Click here to view the video.
The Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen features Will Steger in her Forecast Earth series. A story about adventurers who travel to the far ends of the earth to bring their observations of climate change. Click here to view the video.
Bob Dotson of NBC's Today Show visits the Steger homestead in Ely, Minnesota to produce a profile on Will for their American Story series. The story chronicles a modern day explorer who has spent the last 45 years years traveling the far reaches of the Arctic and Antarctic regions.Click here to view the video.
Nat Geo Wild Chronicles - Baffin Island Expedition '07
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National Geographic's Wild Chronicles host, Boyd Matson, joined the 2007 Baffin Island Expedition team in Clyde River on the northern coast of Baffin Island, as part of their Wild Chronicles series. The program aired nationally on PBS. Click here to view the video.
Richard Branson, his son Sam and six-time Everest summiter Ed Viesturs join Will Steger's Baffin Island Expedition from Clyde River to Igloolik, Nunavut. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 covers their participation in the expedition as part of the Planet In Peril series. Click here to view the video.
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