15/05/2009
interview May the 12th
Live interview with Jose Abecasis Soares, about the ICE CARE project, for the Portuguese news channel TVI24 (part I)
....it's in Portuguese....sorry
....it's in Portuguese....sorry
06/05/2009
HPP Saude training video
As promised, here’s the video of HPP Saude training.
We have organized a short trekking event to evaluate the skills of the candidate doctors.Based on this tour and on a personality questionnaire, 2 doctors were selected to join the 2009 expeditions to Switzerland and Tanzania.
We have organized a short trekking event to evaluate the skills of the candidate doctors.Based on this tour and on a personality questionnaire, 2 doctors were selected to join the 2009 expeditions to Switzerland and Tanzania.
28/04/2009
Press Conference
We've been working for ICE CARE for sooooooo long….it’s about time we start talking about it!
Official press conference at CulturGest, next Monday! (May the 4th)
‘Pequeno Auditório’ at 18:00h
Followed by a brief acoustic concert by Tiago Bettencourt (who will join us for the Tanzania expedition).
Enjoy!
Official press conference at CulturGest, next Monday! (May the 4th)
‘Pequeno Auditório’ at 18:00h
Followed by a brief acoustic concert by Tiago Bettencourt (who will join us for the Tanzania expedition).
Enjoy!
HPP Saúde Training
HPP Saúde – Official Health Service of the Ice Care project, will send a doctor along with the expedition’s team. Last April the 18th we all went for a 4km uphill training to select the person who will join us in Switzerland and Tanzania. Tough call! All the doctors showed good climbing capabilities and great interpersonal skills.
Dream team picture!
Training video will be posted soon.
Training video will be posted soon.
20/04/2009
If we could see….
This UK TV advertisement, suggest: ‘…if you could see the effect we are having on our planet, you’d do something about it!’
But…we CAN see it!!
That’s exactly the purpose of the ICE CARE project!
We will travel the world, climbing the glaciers that are affected NOW by climate change - You will be able to see it happening TODAY!
But…we CAN see it!!
That’s exactly the purpose of the ICE CARE project!
We will travel the world, climbing the glaciers that are affected NOW by climate change - You will be able to see it happening TODAY!
06/04/2009
Miguel Arrobas becomes the 1st Ice Care ambassador
Sportsman: Open water and marathon swimmer.
Has completed several unique crossings in Portuguese waters and aims to swim the great crossings around the world.
Holder of the fastest time overall of 2008 for the English Channel Swim, completing the distance between England and France in 9h30m.
“In the crossings I have done and those which I plan to do in the future, I have always added an ecological dimension to my sporting achievement. Seas, rivers, dams and lakes are the stages for my challenges. As such I use the media coverage I attract to raise awareness about issues such as water pollution and the need to preserve marine ecosystems and endangered species. This is why I was nominated in 2008 as the UN Ambassador for the Year of the Dolphin. I therefore see in the Ice Care Project a perfect alliance between a sporting event and a clear environmental intervention, a shout for help to halt climate change and global warming. This is why I am happy to be associated with this project.”
Has completed several unique crossings in Portuguese waters and aims to swim the great crossings around the world.
Holder of the fastest time overall of 2008 for the English Channel Swim, completing the distance between England and France in 9h30m.
“In the crossings I have done and those which I plan to do in the future, I have always added an ecological dimension to my sporting achievement. Seas, rivers, dams and lakes are the stages for my challenges. As such I use the media coverage I attract to raise awareness about issues such as water pollution and the need to preserve marine ecosystems and endangered species. This is why I was nominated in 2008 as the UN Ambassador for the Year of the Dolphin. I therefore see in the Ice Care Project a perfect alliance between a sporting event and a clear environmental intervention, a shout for help to halt climate change and global warming. This is why I am happy to be associated with this project.”
16/03/2009
What shall I eat for lunch on 2100?
Widely broadcasted recent reports from IPCC, state that the sea level will rise by almost 60 cm by 2100.
Dramatic as it may seem (and it is, unquestionably), this information does not impose itself on people’s daily behaviors. Quite the opposite actually – it may in fact help people feel less guilty about doing nothing! People are more worried about facing the crises today, keeping their jobs tomorrow, than….let’s face it…anything that will eventually happen by 2100.
In the following video, Al Gore says: ‘What is needed is a sense of urgency!’
That’s exactly what the ICE CARE project tries to accomplish.
To show climate change happening NOW!
The effects TODAY and the IMEDIATE consequences!
It is possible to SEE climate change happening in REAL-TIME! That’s what we want to show. That’s what we expect everyone to understand – it is not a problem for our kids to solve and that will affect only them – the problem is real and it’s happening now!
At a recent presentation for doctors at one of HPP Saúde hospitals, when I showed the images of Kilimanjaro in 1993 compared with 2000, someone from the assistance said: ‘You should go in May!’ That’s exactly the ‘sense of urgency’ we are trying to accomplish.
Thank you Francisco Monjardino for the video!
Dramatic as it may seem (and it is, unquestionably), this information does not impose itself on people’s daily behaviors. Quite the opposite actually – it may in fact help people feel less guilty about doing nothing! People are more worried about facing the crises today, keeping their jobs tomorrow, than….let’s face it…anything that will eventually happen by 2100.
In the following video, Al Gore says: ‘What is needed is a sense of urgency!’
That’s exactly what the ICE CARE project tries to accomplish.
To show climate change happening NOW!
The effects TODAY and the IMEDIATE consequences!
It is possible to SEE climate change happening in REAL-TIME! That’s what we want to show. That’s what we expect everyone to understand – it is not a problem for our kids to solve and that will affect only them – the problem is real and it’s happening now!
At a recent presentation for doctors at one of HPP Saúde hospitals, when I showed the images of Kilimanjaro in 1993 compared with 2000, someone from the assistance said: ‘You should go in May!’ That’s exactly the ‘sense of urgency’ we are trying to accomplish.
Thank you Francisco Monjardino for the video!
12/03/2009
BERG and SPORT ZONE suppor ICE CARE
It still feels awkward to collect the equipment from my sponsors. I still feel that, apart from a good idea, I haven’t done much yet. I’m quite sure, by the time I’m out there, freezing my ass out at one of the 5 glaciers, the tradeoff will feel fair.
ICE CARE aims to bring the live testimony of the glaciers retreat, to make climate change visible to all, ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
In order to do that we have obtained precious support from several outdoor and mountaineering equipment manufacturers, to whom we pledge our eternal loyalty and gratitude!
This time it was BERG (bicycles and outdoor equipment brand) who gave its support to the ICE CARE project, by offering bicycles and helmets!
I went for a ride last Sunday on the new Torah 9.5! It is remarkably better than my last bicycle!
That makes me very happy, since it’s always so hard to get help from the bicycle repair man!
Thanks BERG and SPORT ZONE for believing!
ICE CARE aims to bring the live testimony of the glaciers retreat, to make climate change visible to all, ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
In order to do that we have obtained precious support from several outdoor and mountaineering equipment manufacturers, to whom we pledge our eternal loyalty and gratitude!
This time it was BERG (bicycles and outdoor equipment brand) who gave its support to the ICE CARE project, by offering bicycles and helmets!
I went for a ride last Sunday on the new Torah 9.5! It is remarkably better than my last bicycle!
That makes me very happy, since it’s always so hard to get help from the bicycle repair man!
Thanks BERG and SPORT ZONE for believing!
23/02/2009
Hospitals are not for me
I ripped off the acromio-clavicular ligament on a snowboard fall in the winter of 97 – never fixed it!
On my twenties I was made of rubber, just like any other kid that age. No damage was too serious let alone perpetual.
10 years have passed and my shoulder is still out of place. Today I pay the heavy bill of my laissez passer, especially when the weather changes.
By then, hospitals were just like playing golf - the end of the line for me – you wouldn’t find me there before my 50th birthday!
Chatting with Ze Diogo, he mentioned some short of sports support clinics, which he thought could mean good business! A kind of preventive or even pedagogic health care, for the healthy people! Health services for active life and for heath and not only for the lack of it.
For that reason I was so surprise when, at our first meeting, HPP SAUDE mentioned their concept of ‘health of the new generation’ – it was a completely innovative perspective! Health care as a way to prevent problems instead of trying to fix them.
From that point on, we have established one of the most important partnerships of the Ice Care project. HPP SAUDE has become the OFFICIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICE of our expeditions, providing checkups for all the team and specialized doctors (my shoulder badly needs one!). We’re being looked after as top performing football stars! How great is that!
We’ve also talked about sending one of their doctors with us on the expeditions!
Thanks HPP SAUDE for your support and for the way you address the health care services!
On my twenties I was made of rubber, just like any other kid that age. No damage was too serious let alone perpetual.
10 years have passed and my shoulder is still out of place. Today I pay the heavy bill of my laissez passer, especially when the weather changes.
By then, hospitals were just like playing golf - the end of the line for me – you wouldn’t find me there before my 50th birthday!
Chatting with Ze Diogo, he mentioned some short of sports support clinics, which he thought could mean good business! A kind of preventive or even pedagogic health care, for the healthy people! Health services for active life and for heath and not only for the lack of it.
For that reason I was so surprise when, at our first meeting, HPP SAUDE mentioned their concept of ‘health of the new generation’ – it was a completely innovative perspective! Health care as a way to prevent problems instead of trying to fix them.
From that point on, we have established one of the most important partnerships of the Ice Care project. HPP SAUDE has become the OFFICIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICE of our expeditions, providing checkups for all the team and specialized doctors (my shoulder badly needs one!). We’re being looked after as top performing football stars! How great is that!
We’ve also talked about sending one of their doctors with us on the expeditions!
Thanks HPP SAUDE for your support and for the way you address the health care services!
11/02/2009
Very interesting worldwide initiative
As I put it on one of my articles in this blog: Climate change is, as far as I know, the first chance mankind gets to work together for the common good.
http://icecare.blogspot.com/2008/07/equilbrio-de-nash.html
http://icecare.blogspot.com/2008/07/equilbrio-de-nash.html
09/02/2009
Boys and their toys
Yesterday, I surprised my 4 years old son, with a tent on the living room!
The excitement was proper of a 4 years old…
And on his side also! Ah ah
We spent the night inside a TRANGO WORLD tent, with inflatable mattresses and sleeping bags.
I went fetching all the TRANGO WORLD equipment and set up a ‘trial’!
Gore-tex jackets, 1st and 2nd layers, trousers, gloves, boots, back-packs, tents, etc. in quantity for the all team! This was the fantastic contribution of TRANGO WORLD for the Ice Care project!
Gore-tex jackets, 1st and 2nd layers, trousers, gloves, boots, back-packs, tents, etc. in quantity for the all team! This was the fantastic contribution of TRANGO WORLD for the Ice Care project!
Can’t wait to try the equipment in extreme conditions! I’ll have the opportunity to do that in some of the mountain training we’ll do before the expedition – stay tuned for the pictures!
Thanks Julio!
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