David Mayer de Rothschild

David Mayer de Rothschild
David Mayer de Rothschild
Born United Kingdom
Website
http://www.adventureecology.com/

David Mayer de Rothschild (born 1978) is a British adventurer, ecologist, and environmentalist[1] and head of Adventure Ecology, an expedition group raising awareness about climate change. He is a member of the Rothschild family, the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott (born 1949) and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (b. 1931) of the Rothschild banking family of England.[1] His middle name "Mayer" is taken from the name of the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire, Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

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Early life

The youngest heir to his family’s banking fortune, de Rothschild was born in 1978 in London, England. He is the younger brother of Anthony de Rothschild and Jessica de Rothschild. As a teenager, de Rothschild was a top-ranked horse jumper on Britain’s junior event team. He later gave up the sport to pursue his education, stating in an interview with The New Yorker “I realized there was more to life than spending hours and hours and hours on a horse.”[2] After leaving Harrow School in 1996 he attended Oxford Brookes receiving a 2:1 B.Sc (Hons) in Political Science and Information Systems. In 2002, de Rothschild studied at the College of Naturopathic Medicine, London where he received an advanced Diploma in Natural Medicine, ND.[3]

By age 20, de Rothschild had started his own music merchandising business and sold it. In 2001 he bought a 1,100 acre organic farm in New Zealand, and was invited to take part in a Polar expedition. This experience turned de Rothschild into an enterprising eco-adventurer.[4]

Involvement

In 2006, de Rothschild spent over 100 days crossing the Arctic from Russia to Canada, which saw him become one of only 42 people, and the youngest British person, to ever reach both geographical poles. He had already become one of only 14 people ever to traverse the continent of Antarctica, and was part of a team that broke the world record for the fastest ever crossing of the Greenland ice cap.

As part of Adventure Ecology’s ARTiculate series, de Rothschild led a field trip expedition to Ecuador in 2007. The group spent time in the Ecuadorian rain forest, documenting the damage international oil companies had caused by drilling the vast oil reserves.

In March 2010 de Rothschild and a crew of 5 began an expedition to sail across the Pacific on a catamaran partially made from reclaimed post-consumer plastic bottles called the Plastiki.[5] The Plastiki successfully completed its journey to Sydney on 26 July 2010.[6]

Accolades

David de Rothschild was awarded the accolade of "Emerging Explorer" by National Geographic,[7] was appointed an "international ambassador" by NGO Clean Up The World[8] and nominated as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum.

Literary work

In 2007 de Rothschild wrote The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change—Or Live Through It (ISBN 978-1-59486-781-1),[9] with afterword by Kevin Wall, which was the official companion book to the Live Earth concert series. In 2008 he was the Consultant Editor for Earth Matters: An Encyclopedia of Ecology[10] wrote action graphic novel, The Boy The Girl the Tree with artist Simon Harrison[11] and wrote the Foreword to True Green Kids:True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet.[12]

In 2008, alongside others including Zac Goldsmith, David Cameron's environmental advisor, de Rothschild helped to write the commentary for the book Antarctica - The Global Warning.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b 7 February 2009 The Sunday Times Magazine
  2. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_colapinto
  3. ^ McKinley, Jesse (17 April 2009). "After the Silver Spoon, a Green Life". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/arts/television/19mcki.html. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
  4. ^ Ivanova, Nadya (19 October 2009). "Alternative Adventure: Eco-explorer David De Rothschild to Travel the Pacific in Plastic Ship". Circle of Blue. http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/alternative-adventure-eco-explorer-david-de-rothschild-to-travel-the-pacific-in-plastic-ship/. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
  5. ^ van Beynen, Martin (23 January 2010). "Absentee landlord: Little on the horizon to calm investment office". Christchurch: The Press. pp. A13. 
  6. ^ Green message in 12,500 bottles, Australian Geographic, 27 July 2010
  7. ^ National Geographic: David de Rothschild
  8. ^ Profile
  9. ^ http://getgreenwithstyle.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/green-book-review-global-warming-survival-handbook/
  10. ^ London: Dorling Kindersley, 2008. ISBN 9780756634353
  11. ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Girl-Tree-David-Rothschild/dp/0984304703
  12. ^ National Geographic Society. ISBN 9781426304439
  13. ^ Antarctica: The Global Warning, The Five Mile Press Pty. Limited, 2008

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