David de Rothschild
PopTech 2010
David de Rothschild is an adventurer, environmentalist, and the founder of myoo.com, a group that primarily uses exploration and storytelling as a way to give nature a voice. De Rothschild’s passion and commitment to action has seen him ski, dogsled, and kite to both the North and South poles as well as visiting some of the world’s most remote and fragile regions in order to bring widespread media attention and, moreover, solutions to urgent global environmental issues.
From March to July 2010, de Rothschild and a crew of five undertook the latest expedition, the Plastiki, sailing across the Pacific Ocean on a catamaran made buoyant by 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles to beat waste (theplastiki.com). The host of Sundance Channel’s Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living, de Rothschild is also the author of The Global Warming Survival Handbook, The Boy the Girl and the Tree, and the editor of Dorling Kindersley Earth Matters. He is a National Geographic Society “Emerging Explorer,” World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” and UNEP “Climate Hero.”