Events: The Robert C. Barnard Environmental Lecture

2005 LECTURE:

The Daily Planet: A journalist's search for sustainability, from the Amazon to the Arctic

Andrew Revkin
Environment Reporter, The New York Times

Read about his presentation:
Science Writer Andrew Revkin Contemplates An Era Of Risk And Complexity

Abstract

For 25 years, Andrew Revkin has been on a global hunt for ways to mesh the human adventure with the planet's limits. In this illustrated talk, Revkin provided an Earth-spanning tour, from reefs and rain forests to sea ice and tundra, that revealed how scientists are gauging the human impact on ecosystems and climate and how some communities are working to redefine progress.



About Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin covers global environmental issues for The New York Times and is the prize-winning author of The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (reprint edition, Shearwater Books, September 2004). He has been a reporter for the Times since 1995, traveling from the Hudson Valley to the North Pole to report on conservation, climate change and efforts to sustain the human adventure without wrecking the home planet. He also contributed several dozen stories to the Times' Pulitzer-winning “A Nation Challenged” coverage.

In 2003, Revkin won the inaugural National Academies Communication Award for print journalism. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and also has won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

The Burning Season was the basis for the HBO film of the same name, which won three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmys. Revkin also wrote Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, which accompanied an exhibition on climate change created by the American Museum of Natural History. In addition, he writes about music, and his Times profile of a heavy-metal singer was the basis for the 2001 movie Rock Star.

Revkin lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons, where he is a performing songwriter, playing both with his rural-roots quartet, Uncle Wade, and occasionally with his neighbor, Pete Seeger.