Join us on Sunday November 17 as we speak with Andrew Revkin, one of America’s most honored, experienced and innovative journalists. He will will talk about how we can get beyond amorphous labels like sustainability and climate emergency by asking questions, starting with, “Sustain what?” He has written on global environmental change and risk for more than 40 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican – mostly for The New York Times. Revkin was a staff reporter at The Times from 1995 through 2009, covering issues ranging from threats to New York City’s water supply to the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami and, of course, climate science and policy. In the mid 2000s, he exclusively exposed political suppression of climate findings at NASA and editing of federal climate reports by political appointees with ties to the petroleum industry. He made three Arctic reporting trips and was the first Times reporter to file stories, video and photos from the sea ice around the North Pole.
He has long been credited with pushing media frontiers, particularly in pursuit of constructive engagement amid polarized and oversimplified online news flows and discourse. His New York Times blog, Dot Earth, which he launched as a news reporter and continued as an Opinion column, was lauded by the Columbia Journalism Review as “incredibly successful at encouraging copious, high-quality commenting and debate.”
Revkin has won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship and Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. He has written books on the dawn of the Anthropocene, the history of humanity’s relationship with weather, the changing Arctic, global warming and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication.
The talk and reception are FREE but registration is required. REGISTRATION LINK TO COME