Andrew Revkin, a longtime environmental journalism innovator, has spent 40 years scouring the world to identify and convey sustainable human pathways, with a particular focus on using the upside of online connectedness to build solution networks and cut through noise and polarization. He began reporting on global warming in 1988 and never stopped, filing award-winning stories from the North Pole, Amazon rain forest, White House and beyond. Half of his career was at The New York Times, including 14 years as a reporter and 6 as an online commentator through his groundbreaking Dot Earth blog.

His influence has spread beyond news media. From 2010 through 2016, he served on the Anthropocene Working Group, the expert body commissioned to weigh evidence humans had become such a force for planetary change that we were creating a new geological epoch. He’s helped build programs, curricula and initiatives fostering communication innovation and impact at the National Academy of Sciences, Columbia and Pace University and the National Geographic Society, where he has been a member of the Committee on Research and Exploration since 2018. Revkin is a much-sought speaker and adviser on climate, communication and resilience. He runs a lauded live webcast, Sustain What, that has reached several million viewers and included more than a thousand guests through 400 episodes. Subscribe to his related newsletter at revkin.substack.com.

Revkin is also a longtime performing songwriter whose music has been featured on NPR. He’s written five books, with more on the way, and lives on the Maine coast with his wife and sometime co-author Lisa Mechaley.