Glacial blue ice from the Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) Ice Sheet will be transformed into a reverential sculpture, a reliquary, traveling the world as a frozen ambassador, representing the interests of the Arctic environment and the Indigenous peoples who reside there.
Website Credits: Photography, website design and build by Emile Holba. Illustrations by Brian Goggin. Audio by Charles Monroe-Kane. Text by Brian Goggin, Charles Monroe-Kane and Emile Holba. All rights reserved by Sermersuaq: The Last Ice Project. No reproduction without prior permission.
Sermersuaq: The Last Ice Project. Strives to be Carbon Neutral. Where the Ilulissat Kangerlua (Ilulissat Iceford) meets Disko Bay. ‘Sermersuaq: The Last Ice Project’ will be carbon negative to exemplify visionary energy and material use practices. Materials will be repurposed or recycled content wherever possible. The freezer system will be solar-powered. A mobile solar system will be used when the ‘Sermersuaq: The Last Ice Project’ is traveling globally and a stationary solar system will power the Last Ice Project when it is housed at the Icefjord Center.
Using the calculated carbon footprint value for the project, we will use both nature-based carbon drawdown and direct air capture technologies (DAC) to sequester carbon. For nature-based carbon drawdown, we will use blue carbon focused SeaTrees and reforestation / afforestation targeted Ecologi.
For DAC, we will partner with AirCapture, a carbon dioxide removal company, to store atmospheric carbon in concrete and/or displace methane as a source of merchant CO2 for industry. We will use some of this captured carbon to create the pedestal for the Reliquary.