WPCNR WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP. From Purchase College. April 2, 2005: The Environmental Studies program at Purchase College presents a lecture by “New York Times” environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, April 11 at 5:30 PM, Room 1008, Social Sciences Building. Mr. Revkin will discuss “The Daily Planet: A Journalist’s Search for Sustainability, from the Amazon to the Arctic.” The lecture is free and open to the public. Purchase College State University of New York is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY.
Andrew Revkin, a prize-winning author and reporter, describes his 20-year (and counting) search for ways to mesh the human adventure with the planet’s limits. The quest has taken him to the Amazon, with the resulting book, “The Burning Season,” chronicling the life and death of Chico Mendes and grassroots efforts to extract value from living rain forests instead of torching them. Most recently, he has made three trips to the Arctic in two years to describe the extraordinary changes at the top of the world that appear to be driven, long distance, by the buildup of greenhouse emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes.
For more information, call 914-251-6632.
