Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Thursday, February 25th, 2016 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, Second floor conference rooms |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Cost: | Free |
“The New Communication Climate” Discovery Lecture with Andrew Revkin
Andrew Revkin, in his 31st year writing about the human relationship to the climate system, will explore issues and opportunities arising as both the environment and the news media experience an era of unprecedented and unpredictable change. The Web and social media offer unprecedented connectivity but, without conscious effort, can insulate people from everyone but “friends” and from ideas that might challenge strongly-held beliefs. Drawing on his experience as a blogger and Pace University communications professor, Revkin will describe extraordinary innovations showing how bottom-up and peer-to-peer communication can fill gaps as old information gatekeepers, from sage broadcasters to newspaper front pages (to university professors) lose influence.
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.