Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Shana Gulko '00, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No.15   April 10, 2000

Environmental Reporter to Discuss the ‘Green Beat’ Andrew Revkin, an environmental reporter for the New York Times and the author of an award-winning book about the murder of Brazilian rain forest advocate Chico Mendes, will speak at the College on Thursday, April 20. Revkin’s talk, "The Green Beat: The Perils and Promise of Environmental Reporting," is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in Textor 102. It is free and open to the public. Since 1995 Revkin has reported on environmental issues affecting the New York metropolitan region for the Times. He previously served as a senior editor of Discover magazine, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and senior writer at Science Digest. His 1990 book The Burning Season chronicled the life of Chico Mendes, the slain leader of the movement to save the Amazon rain forest. The Burning Season won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and was made into an HBO film starring Raul Julia and directed by John Frankenheimer. The film won two Golden Globes and two Emmys. Revkin is also the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, a 1992 book lauded by vice president Al Gore, who said, "Andy Revkin masterfully presents the problem and powerfully calls each of us to action." The book was the companion volume to the first museum exhibition on climate change, created by the American Museum of Natural History. Revkin’s work has been honored with an American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. He lectures frequently on writing and the environment and has discussed environmental issues on the Today show, Good Morning America, NPR, and CNN.

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