GUARDIANS OF THE ICE: IGNITING HEARTS AND MINDS
Guardians of the Ice is a multidisciplinary art project attending to the Columbia Icefield and all that it means. The Icefield, located on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies, is a significant bellwether of the accelerating effects of climate change. It is retreating faster than ever, and we are facing an unknown future, charged with stories of hope and prophecies of doom, and therefore rich with opportunity.
GUARDIANS OF THE ICE: IGNITING HEARTS AND MINDS
Guardians of the Ice is a multidisciplinary art project attending to the Columbia Icefield and all that it means. The Icefield, located on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies, is a significant bellwether of the accelerating effects of climate change. It is retreating faster than ever, and we are facing an unknown future, charged with stories of hope and prophecies of doom, and therefore rich with opportunity.
GUARDIANS OF THE ICE: IGNITING HEARTS AND MINDS
Guardians of the Ice is a multidisciplinary art project attending to the Columbia Icefield and all that it means. The Icefield, located on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies, is a significant bellwether of the accelerating effects of climate change. It is retreating faster than ever, and we are facing an unknown future, charged with stories of hope and prophecies of doom, and therefore rich with opportunity.
Our Purpose:
Guardians of the Ice is a nonprofit organization focused on the rapidly-shrinking Columbia Icefield as a leading indicator of the worldwide climate crisis. Our purpose is to effectively engage the public to build support for a low-carbon future.
Through our film, still photography and writing, we link the emotional power of art with the cognitive clarity of science, as a way to communicate the urgent implications of what the scientists are uncovering in the Icefield. As our slogan Ice=Water=Life implies, water and water security are central to our mission.
We seek to ignite widespread environmental stewardship in our communities leading to committed action that will tackle the challenge of global warming in practical and meaningful ways.
Our Purpose:
Guardians of the Ice is a nonprofit organization focused on the rapidly-shrinking Columbia Icefield as a leading indicator of the worldwide climate crisis. Our purpose is to effectively engage the public to build support for a low-carbon future.
Through our film, still photography and writing, we link the emotional power of art with the cognitive clarity of science, as a way to communicate the urgent implications of what the scientists are uncovering in the Icefield. As our slogan Ice=Water=Life implies, water and water security are central to our mission.
We seek to ignite widespread environmental stewardship in our communities leading to committed action that will tackle the challenge of global warming in practical and meaningful ways.
Our Purpose:
Guardians of the Ice is a nonprofit organization focused on the rapidly-shrinking Columbia Icefield as a leading indicator of the worldwide climate crisis. Our purpose is to effectively engage the public to build support for a low-carbon future.
Through our film, still photography and writing, we link the emotional power of art with the cognitive clarity of science, as a way to communicate the urgent implications of what the scientists are uncovering in the Icefield. As our slogan Ice=Water=Life implies, water and water security are central to our mission.
We seek to ignite widespread environmental stewardship in our communities leading to committed action that will tackle the challenge of global warming in practical and meaningful ways.
WE ARE ARTISTS…
We are artists: filmmakers, photographers, scientists, writers. We know that forcing a false choice between a story of hope and a story of doom misses the essential dynamic synergy of the two.
OUR INTENT IS TO IGNITE HEARTS AND MINDS
Our intent is to sharpen awareness of this synergy by synthesizing our own perspectives and responses, artistic and scientific, to the beauty, majesty and vulnerability of the Icefield. Not to point the finger of blame, nor to sound the knell of despair, but to ignite hearts and minds in the discovery of possibilities yet unrealized.
WE ARE ARTISTS…
We are artists: filmmakers, photographers, scientists, writers. We know that forcing a false choice between a story of hope and a story of doom misses the essential dynamic synergy of the two.
OUR INTENT IS TO IGNITE HEARTS AND MINDS
Our intent is to sharpen awareness of this synergy by synthesizing our own perspectives and responses, artistic and scientific, to the beauty, majesty and vulnerability of the Icefield. Not to point the finger of blame, nor to sound the knell of despair, but to ignite hearts and minds in the discovery of possibilities yet unrealized.
WE ARE ARTISTS…
We are artists: filmmakers, photographers, scientists, writers. We know that forcing a false choice between a story of hope and a story of doom misses the essential dynamic synergy of the two.
OUR INTENT IS TO IGNITE HEARTS AND MINDS
Our intent is to sharpen awareness of this synergy by synthesizing our own perspectives and responses, artistic and scientific, to the beauty, majesty and vulnerability of the Icefield. Not to point the finger of blame, nor to sound the knell of despair, but to ignite hearts and minds in the discovery of possibilities yet unrealized.
SCIENCE, ART AND EMOTION
Art and science seem mutually exclusive. Art perceives the world through the emotions, the psyche, the aesthetic. Science grasps the world through impersonal observation and measurement, rational and quantitative.
Guardians of the Ice project is dedicated to bringing those two faces of human comprehension together, merging the art and science to induce a compelling synergy of perception and understanding.
Neuroscience tells us that, above all else, humans take action and make decisions based on emotion. Commitment springs from the heart. It cannot be coerced or legislated.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
SCIENCE, ART AND EMOTION
Art and science seem mutually exclusive. Art perceives the world through the emotions, the psyche, the aesthetic. Science grasps the world through impersonal observation and measurement, rational and quantitative.
Guardians of the Ice project is dedicated to bringing those two faces of human comprehension together, merging the art and science to induce a compelling synergy of perception and understanding.
Neuroscience tells us that, above all else, humans take action and make decisions based on emotion. Commitment springs from the heart. It cannot be coerced or legislated.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
SCIENCE, ART AND EMOTION
Art and science seem mutually exclusive. Art perceives the world through the emotions, the psyche, the aesthetic. Science grasps the world through impersonal observation and measurement, rational and quantitative.
Guardians of the Ice project is dedicated to bringing those two faces of human comprehension together, merging the art and science to induce a compelling synergy of perception and understanding.
Neuroscience tells us that, above all else, humans take action and make decisions based on emotion. Commitment springs from the heart. It cannot be coerced or legislated.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
OUR MISSION
To marry art and science in film, photography and text to illuminate the significance of what is being lost and the infinite possibilities to be realized in grappling with this urgent global climate crisis.
To mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis. We can accomplish this by becoming committed climate activists in a community of individual action, community collaboration and policy change.
is one of Canada’s leading alpine climbers, with experience in many of the world’s Great Ranges. Based in Canada’s mountains, he’s repeated and established some of the most remote and esthetic climbs on the Columbia Icefield. He has pushed the limits above glaciers on North America’s highest mountains. And established a route on a Himalayan peak, K6 West at a grade of WI5 M6 over 1,800 metres with Raphael Slawinski. The ascent earned them both the prestigious climbing award known as the Piolets d’Or.
is an ice-core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer. National Geographic Explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta. In addition to her academic work, she is a co-founder of Girls on Ice Canada and an avid adventurer and mountain climber.