melting ice caps and old dreams of the Oriental

I was in New York for about five minutes with Dude. We went to the big annual awards dinner his environmental nonprofit organization holds every year. I was very pleased to see one of those awards go to new friend (and Dude's old friend) Sebastian Copeland, an internationally renowned photographer who spent months trekking through the Arctic and Antarctic documenting the melting ice caps.

And getting cold.

Dude is gearing up for his trip to Copenhagen for the conference, and I'm planning to ...