BusyBusyBusyBusy...Oooh shiny car!

November promised to be a busy month and she is not holding back any punches! Things are moving at a million miles an hour at Expedition Central.

Events wise, the Café Scientifique Event on the 22nd of November is shaping up to be a wonderful evening.  Our panel of speakers will include Ciaran Cuffe, Gavin Harte, and Frank Mc Donald and myself. The event will start with a short film about last years Expedition, and then each panelist will speak for 5 minutes on their area of expertise on Climate Change. The speeches will be followed by a Q+A session with the audience. All of this will be held over food and wine in La Cocotte Café at the Alliance Francaise. Admission is free and donations will be accepted on the night towards my Expedition.

For RSVP to this event please contact The Alliance Francaise here!

From there I will be jetting back to the bright lights of home as I have been asked to speak at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Event in Letterkenny (LYIT) on November 23rd at 2pm.

I am incredibly honoured to have been asked to speak at this event and I am looking forward to sharing my story and details of the 2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador Programme with such a dedicated group of people.

  NFTE Ireland is an all-island entrepreneurship programme operated by Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation and affiliated to NFTE International. NFTE Ireland's mission is to provide entrepreneurship education to young people living in low-income communities on the island of Ireland. Our vision is that every young person will find a pathway to prosperity. NFTE is committed to helping young people reach their full potential through educational and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Once details have been confirmed I will post them here!


Many thanks to Niamh and all the crew over at the Project Arts Centre I will be holding a stand up comedy evening called Stand Up for Penguins! on November 30th at 8.30pm. We are working on acts for the evening and it is going to be AWESOME!! You can join the Facebook Event Page HERE!

Finally I need to say a huge thank you to Mark Daly over at ESB Ecars. I spent Monday afternoon with Mark learning all about Ecar Technology in Ireland. The advancments and commitment to Ecar technology and Renewable Energy as a power source in Ireland are admirable. I also got to take a spin in one of their electric fleet and I am honestly converted! I hope to work more with Mark and all the team at ESB Ecars over the next 18months to raise awareness about the viability of making the switch to EPV's.

One of the many reasons I am happy I undertook this project is the amazing opportunities I have had to look deeper at realistic models that lead to more sustainability and environmental protection within industries that have, in the past, been attributed to negative impacts on our environment. Ecocem and ESB Ecars are two shining examples of this....

Press Pictures Karl Martini Photographer

Many thanks to the incredibly talented Karl Martini for taking some brilliant shots this weekend. Karl is a very talented and professional photographer and I cannot recommend him enough!

http://www.karlmartini.com/#!home/mainPage

Press Release for Immediate Release

Press Release

For Immediate Release

                                                                               2/11/2012

Irish woman selected for International Antarctic Expedition

A Donegal woman has been selected in a small elite group of young people worldwide to take part in an expedition to Antarctica to preserve the continent’s unique landscape and wildlife as well as learning how to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Eimear Carlin from Milltown, Raphoe, is the only Irish representative on the ‘2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador Programme’ and has been formally invited by Robert Swan OBE to take part in the three-week International Antarctic Expedition (IAE), which begins next February.

Swan is the first person to walk to both the North and South poles, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and is now a renowned environmental leader who takes a select group of current and future environmental experts to Antarctica. His aim is to inspire the next generation of leaders to continue his work.

Human activities in Antarctica are governed by an international agreement, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. This ensures that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes only and that the environment is protected. Currently there is a cessation that bans drilling or mining in Antarctica called the Environmental Protocol, established in 1991. This document can be reviewed after the 50-year anniversary in 2041.

Ms Carlin, who has just completed a post graduate diploma in Development Studies from Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Dublin, moved to Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, and spent four years working the Canadian Forestry Sector. She worked mostly in reforestation, and personally planted over 600,000 trees.

“I became very interested in the environmental challenges faced by the Polar Regions and how changes in the Polar ecosystem can impact on the rest of the world,” she said. “From living within the Arctic Circle I am used to working in extreme weather conditions, experiencing 24 hour darkness and temperatures in the -40s. 

“I have travelled extensively throughout the North West Territories, witnessing the annual caribou migration. In 2006 I travelled to Northern and Arctic Finland to photograph brown bear migrations into Russia.”

The expedition will also see Ms Carlin complete Swan’s ‘Leadership on the Edge’ programme, the goal of which is to develop the skills of future business and environmental leaders. This will be held at the first ever Education Base established in Antarctica by Robert Swan at Bellinghausen Station.

Ms Carlin has pledged to raise €19,607 to take part in the expedition. With the support of ECOCEM, Irish producers of the world’s most sustainable building material, the French Embassy in Ireland, and Kimmage Development Studies Centre, she is over the halfway mark towards the Expedition, which takes place from February 28 to March 14 2013. She will be hosting a climate change Café Scientifique Fundraiser in the Alliance Francaise Dublin on November 22nd entitled "Climate Change- Ireland's place in the Polar Plight". Guest speakers will debate on Climate Change followed by a Q+A Session the event will be FREE with optional donations on the night.

She has also started personal fundraising, most notably a roller-skating trek around Ireland covering 800km, which is the equivalent distance of the Drake Passage, the sea of water that connects the south-western Atlantic and the south-eastern Pacific, between the southern tip of South America in Chile and South Shetlands Islands of Antarctica over the next four months.

This project will culminate in a Fundraiser Gala Evening in Dublin on the last weekend of January. Upon her return in March, Ms Carlin will then undertake the second leg of the journey, around the schools of the country to educate.

“I am aiming to start an initiative in schools across Ireland to get 2041 young people to create their own climate change projects, whether it is planting a tree or being responsible for turning off all lights, checking taps etc in their home before bedtime,” she said. “Simple acts can make a huge change. In doing so, kids will get to be Mini Climate Ambassadors in their own right.  It’s about instilling a more sustainable attitude to energy and resource use from an early age.”

“Throughout 2013, I will be travelling around Ireland visiting schools and businesses promoting the Antarctic and sustainable practices that can help combat the effects of climate change.”

You can support Eimear by visiting http://polareimear2041ayap.blogspot.ie/ Or go into any AIB and quote “Eimear Carlin Antarctic Fundraising Account, Smithfield Branch.”

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For further information contact:

Eimear Carlin at skatethedrake@gmail.com.

or phone:  087 -068 4498