Andrew Revkin Explained

Andrew C. Revkin
Occupation:Environmental writer, professor
Education:Brown University (BS)
Columbia University (MA)
Genre:Science writing
Subject:Global warming
Notableworks:Dot Earth (blog); The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship

John Chancellor Award

  • Feinstone Environmental Award

    • Andrew C. Revkin (born 1956) is an American science and environmental journalist, webcaster, author and educator. He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole. From 2019 to 2023 he directed the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at The Earth Institute of Columbia University.[1] While at Columbia, he launched a video webcast, Sustain What,[2] that seeks solutions to tangled environmental and societal challenges through dialogue. In 2023, the webcast integrated with his Substack dispatch of the same name.[3]

    Previously he was strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at National Geographic Society.[4] Through 2017 he was senior reporter for climate change at the independent investigative newsroom ProPublica.[5] He was a reporter for The New York Times from 1995 through 2009. In 2007, he created the Dot Earth environmental blog for The Times. The blog moved to the Opinion Pages in 2010 and ran through 2016. From 2010 to 2016 he was also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University.[6] He is also a performing songwriter and was a frequent accompanist of Pete Seeger.

    Early life

    Andrew Revkin was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in 1978 with a degree in Biology.[7] He later received a Master's in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[8] [9]

    Career

    Early in his career he held senior editor and senior writer positions at Discover magazine and Science Digest, respectively.[10]

    From 1995 through 2009, Revkin covered the environment for The New York Times. In 2003, he became the first Times reporter to file stories from the North Pole area and in 2005-6 broke stories about the Bush administration's interference with scientific research, particularly at NASA.[11]

    In 2010, he joined Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies as Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding.[12]

    Revkin has also written books on the Anthropocene,[13] humanity's weather and climate learning journey,[14] the once and future Arctic, the Amazon, and global warming.[15] He was interviewed by Seed magazine about his book The North Pole Was Here, which was published in 2006. He stressed that "the hard thing to convey in print as journalists, and for society to absorb, is that this is truly a century-scale problem."[16]

    Revkin is among those credited with developing the idea that humans, through growing impacts on Earth’s climate and other critical systems, are creating a distinct geological epoch, the Anthropocene.[17] He was a member of the "Anthropocene" Working Group from 2010 to 2016. The group is charged by a branch of the International Commission on Stratigraphy with gauging evidence that a formal change in the Geologic Time Scale is justified.

    Works

    -- translated and published also in Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Thai editions[18]

    Films based on his work

    Two films have been based on Revkin's writing:

    Songwriter and musician

    Revkin is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who led a Hudson Valley roots ensemble called Breakneck Ridge Revue. He performed frequently with Pete Seeger between 1996 and 2014 and was a member of Uncle Wade, a blues-roots band.[19] His first album, A Very Fine Line, featuring guest contributions by Dar Williams, Mike Marshall and Bruce Molsky, was released in November, 2013.[20]

    Awards

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. News: Journalist Andrew Revkin to Head New Communications Initiative. 2019-08-10. en-us.
    2. https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
    3. https://revkin.substack.com
    4. News: Award-Winning Writer Andrew Revkin Joins National Geographic Society. 2018-06-17. en-us.
    5. Web site: Gordy. Cynthia. Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change. ProPublica. en-us. 14 November 2016.
    6. http://pace.edu/paaes/node/5##andrewrevkin "Andrew C. Revkin", Pace University, 2009.
    7. http://alumni.brown.edu/news_events/reunions/08gallery/revkin.html Reunion 2008: Retrospective: Alumni Reunion Forum: “Dot Earth: Pursuing Progress on a Finite Planet”
    8. http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2007/04/11/journalist-author-and-singer-andrew-revkin-examines-climate-change/ Journalist, author, and singer Andrew Revkin examines climate change
    9. https://environmentalstudies.vassar.edu/news/announcements/2005-2006/060410-climate-change.html New York Times Climate Change Expert Speaks During Earth Week. 20. April 2016
    10. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/learning/askareporterscience/revkin_bio.html Revkin's Biography
    11. Cristine Russell, "Revkin Taking NYT Buyout: Veteran climate reporter to leave paper after Copenhagen summit, Columbia Journalism Review, December 14, 2009
    12. News: My Second Half . Andrew Revkin . Dot Earth . . 21 December 2009 . 21 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091224104645/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/my-second-half/ . 24 December 2009 . live .
    13. Book: The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene . 978-1-68335-880-0 . 7 April 2020 . Abrams .
    14. Book: Weather: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change . 978-1-4549-3245-1 . 20 May 2018 . Union Square + ORM .
    15. Web site: Backgrounder: Andrew Revkin . Molly Webster . Bullpen . NYU Journalism . 14 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091026154310/http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/andrew_revkin/backgrounder_an/ . 26 October 2009 .
    16. Web site: Skipping Ahead . Seed . 21 April 2006 . 14 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422184450/http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/skipping_ahead/. 22 April 2009 . unfit.
    17. Steffen. W.. Grinevald. J.. Crutzen. P.. McNeill. J.. The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2011. 369. 1938. 842–867. 10.1098/rsta.2010.0327. 21282150. 2011RSPTA.369..842S.
    18. http://www.worldcat.org/title/burning-season-the-murder-of-chico-mendes-and-the-fight-for-the-amazon-rain-forest/oclc/21335871/editions?cookie=&start_edition=1&sd=desc&se=yr&referer=null&qt=show_more_ln%3A&editionsView=true&fq=&fc=ln%3A_25 WorldCat.
    19. https://www.facebook.com/UNCLE-WADE-49075702975/?ref=br_rs Uncle Wade.
    20. Web site: Revkin. Andy. Why Singing, Not Typing. medium.com. 10 November 2013.
    21. Web site: Travel Book .
    22. Web site: Honorary Membership .
    23. AGU. Andrew C. Revkin Receives 2015 Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism. Eos. 7 January 2016. 97. 10.1029/2016EO042921. free.
    24. http://newswire.blogs.law.pace.edu/2011/09/16/%E2%80%98dot-earth%E2%80%99-blog-earns-a-second-national-communication-award-for-pace-university-senior-fellow-and-new-york-times-blogger-andrew-revkin/ "'Dot Earth' Blog Earns a Second National Communication Award..." Pace Law School, September 16, 2011.
    25. Web site: Award Winner Andrew Revkin . 2008 . 14 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100623043514/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JRN%2FRender%2FPrintThisPage&childpagename=Journalism%2FJRN_Page_C%2FJRNSimplePage2&cid=1212609887109&c=JRN_Page_C . 23 June 2010 .
    26. Web site: Origin of the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism . Columbia University . 14 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923001553/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175295293574/page/1175295288088/simplepage.htm . 23 September 2009 .
    27. Web site: Q & A with Andrew Revkin . 2008 . 14 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100623054121/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JRN%2FRender%2FPrintThisPage&childpagename=Journalism%2FJRN_Page_C%2FJRNSimplePage2&cid=1212609887159&c=JRN_Page_C . 23 June 2010 .
    28. http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/programs/mayer/mayer-award-recipients/2007-2008 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award/Series, 2007-2008, Tufts University.
    29. http://www.esf.edu/communications/news/2007/09.13.feinstone.htm "New York Times Reporter Receives Honorary Feinstone Award", SUNY-ESF, September 13, 2007.
    30. http://www.keckfutures.org/awards/2003winners.html "National Academies Communication Awards."
    31. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61362740 WorldCat.

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