Vom 14. bis 27. März 2009 hatten elf RWE-Mitarbeiter die Gelegenheit, die Antarktis im Rahmen einer "Leadership Expedition" hautnah zu erleben und zu lernen, wie sie einen Beitrag zum Schutz der Antarktis und der Umwelt leisten können. Zusammen mit rund 60 Teilnehmern begleiteten sie Robert Swan auf seinem Schiff „2041“. Die Reise führte von Ushuaia, Argentinien, durch die legendäre Drakes Passage bis King George Island und zur E-Base.

Während der Expedition besuchte die Gruppe verschiedene Plätze auf der antarktischen Halbinsel. An Bord sprachen die Teammitglieder zudem mit Experten für Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit. Ihre Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen über die Antarktis und das sensible Ökosystem des Kontinents geben die Männer und Frauen seit ihrer Rückkehr zu Hause und am Arbeitsplatz weiter.

Ihre Eindrücke von der "Leadership Expedition" haben die Teilnehmer mit Foto- und Videokameras festgehalten und in einem Blog darüber geschrieben, was sie auf der spannenden Reise erlebt haben.

Expeditions Blog

Sat, 09 May 2009
Inspire Antarctic Expedition 2009

Thu, 09 Apr 2009
Team Inspire 2009

Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Testimonials

Musik thanks to Audio Network

Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Penguins ahoy

Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Reflections

It seems strange writing some reflections before the expedition has finished, but technology needs must. In the Drake Passage we have no communications, and while contact with the outside world was possible at E-Base, since then we have relied on satellite, with limits on the size of the files that can be sent. While satellite communications are good to 78 degrees south, the communications specialist, Jamie, needs his equipment to be on solid ground with no shielding from mountains. So he is duly dropped ashore with an orange briefcase and his crampons, and left to scale the highest peak to get a signal. One glitch in the connection, as he uploads to the 2041 website or email server, and he has to start again. The positive is that we are more or less isolated from the outside world for two weeks, giving time for thought as we travel through an other worldly landscape.

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Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Leopards and Light

Paradise Bay is such a remarkable place. Again, we were blessed with the weather - astonishingly still and calm, after very nearly being blown off the top of a mountain at Nico Harbour.
Earlier in the day, we discussed the solutions to climate change, and the role that policy makers, businesses and all of us have if we are going to break our dependence on a high carbon way of life. Then, it was out in the zodiacs again.

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009
Life aboard the Ioffe

Mon, 23 Mar 2009
Leopard seals on the prowl

I am so happy to have a chance to write home! I have limited space and so while it is hard not to tell you everything we’ve done and all the wonderful things I have seen, I will have to keep my blog short and ask the powers that be if I can write again this week.

We are learning lots about sustainability, climate change and leadership. The lectures are fantastic and the excursions into the wilderness are spectacular. Yesterday we went to an island with a penguin population of 3500-4000 which was a fantastic experience because the penguins are curious and so I sat still and a few came right up to me to check me out.

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009
Contributions from the world

Yesterday afternoon we went ashore and saw our first gentoo penguins. They are truly majestic creatures. But sadly any penguins still here this late in the autumn will inevitably die during the winter; the more sensible or healthier ones have already migrated north. We also saw an enormous leopard seal slowly circling in front of the beach, in the hope that one of the penguins would venture into the sea. None did.

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