‘The Green Movement has Done a Really Bad Job at Inspiring People’ – December 22, 2011

Interview: David de Rothschild

As the youngest heir to the well-known British banking empire, David De Rothschild could certainly be sitting pretty as an armchair philanthropist. Instead the 33-year-old storytelling, eco-adventurer named National Geographic Adventurer of The Year in 2010 fully immerses himself in environmental and social endeavors that are both artistic and adrenaline pumping. Founder of Adventure Ecology and the recently launched social media initiative, MYOO, De Rothschild has traversed both geographical poles to raise critical awareness about global warming and sailed across the Pacific in a boat constructed of over 12,5000 recycled plastic bottles to bring attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the world's oceans. 

De Rothschild’s most recent altruistic endeavor led… more

by: Deborah Bassett

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