[SPN-Discussion] NYT Blogger Andrew Revkin Presents: Is the New Communication Climate Good for the Earth's Climate? - November 12th @ Baruch

Matthew LePere Matthew.LePere at baruch.cuny.edu
Wed Nov 4 13:31:06 PST 2015


Join Us for the Third Seminar in the Fall 2015 Baruch Climate Change Series

Is the New Communication Climate Good for the Earth's Climate?

Presented by Andrew Revkin

Thursday, November 12, 2:30-3:30pm, Newman Vertical Campus Room 14-250

RSVP to matthew.lepere at baruch.cuny.edu<mailto:matthew.lepere at baruch.cuny.edu>

About the Program
Renowned science journalist, online communicator, and author Andrew Revkin explores issues and opportunities arising as both the environment and the media experience an era of unprecedented and unpredictable change. In his thirtieth year writing on the human relationship to the climate system, Revkin sees great opportunities for making information matter, both within traditional journalism and using an expanding array of communication pathways. But success depends on abandoning old norms, including norms for how people learn both how to share and assess news and information.

About the Speaker
Andrew Revkin, the Pace University Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, has reported on science and the environment for more than three decades, from the Amazon to the White House, the Hudson Valley to the North Pole, mainly for The New York Times. He has written on global warming science and solutions and energy issues since the 1980s and is among those credited with first proposing that we have entered a "geological age of our own making," known increasingly as the Anthropocene. Since joining the faculty at Pace in 2010, he has developed or co-developed innovative courses in blogging, environmental communication and documentary film. He has also helped organize and run campus and online events on urban resilience, the mix of technology and tradition in agriculture, renewable energy opportunities and more.

Revkin has won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is widely recognized for fairness and a pursuit of reality in a polarized media environment. This doesn't come without perils. The conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh once suggested Revkin kill himself if he thought population growth was such an important issue, while a liberal climate blogger once compared him to Charlie Sheen.

Revkin has written acclaimed books on global warming, the changing Arctic and the violent assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication. Drawing on his experience with his Times blog, Dot Earth, which Time Magazine named one of the top 25 blogs in 2013, Revkin has spoken to audiences around the world, including at the United Nations and Vatican, about the role of communication innovation in forging progress on a turbulent planet. Two films have been based on his work: "Rock Star" (Warner Brothers, 2001) and "The Burning Season" (HBO, 1994), which starred Raul Julia and won two Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes.

Registration
To register, please e-mail or call Matthew LePere:

  *   Matthew.LePere at Baruch.Cuny.Edu<mailto:Matthew.LePere at Baruch.Cuny.Edu?subject=First%20Climate%20Change%20Seminar>
  *   646-312-3231
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