Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 4:10pm
Thanks to the 100-plus people who participated in the first annual Leon Levy Winter Walk and
Environmental Symposium on
February 28 and March 1.
On Saturday afternoon, February 28, Andrew C. Revkin, the New York Times science reporter, discussed global warming, sustainability, the news media and land preservation in a talk calledRe: couple of questions "DOT EARTH: 9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?" at the first Leon Levy Environmental
Symposium.
It was held in the Carriage House of the Waccabuc Country Club.
On Sunday, March 1, we held a winter walk at the Leon Levy Preserve in South Salem.
Both events were in honor of the late philanthropist Leon Levy. The Winter Walk and Environmental Symposium were organized by Westchester Land Trust and its local chapter, the Lewisboro Land Trust, and were generously sponsored by the Jerome Levy Foundation, of which Leon Levy was the primary benefactor.
In addition to Andrew Revkin, the symposium also featured two local experts - Paul Gallagher and Guy Hodges - who gave a brief history of the preserve.
Revkin, who lives in Garrison, has vast experience in covering science and the environment, for the Times and other publications. Here's his bio:
"One of America's most honored science writers, Andrew C. Revkin has spent a quarter century providing ground-breaking coverage of subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the politics of climate to science at the North Pole. He has been an environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995. His coverage of climate change was honored with the John Chancellor Award for sustained journalistic excellence in 2008, and won the inaugural National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States' preeminent scientific body. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, along with other prizes, has won an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.
"He is a pioneer in multimedia journalism, filing audio, video, and award-winning photography along with his stories from far-flung places. With his Dot Earth blog (nytimes.com/dotearth), which Time Magazine calls a "must read," Revkin has become what the magazine says is the "de factor moderator" of the national discourse on global warming.
"Revkin has written several books, including The Burning Season, on the murder of Amazon defender Chico Mendes, which was awarded the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was made into the HBO film of the same name, which won three Golden Globes and two Emmys. His newest book, and first for younger readers, is The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, on the once and future Arctic. He has a biology degree from Brown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. He has taught at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and Bard College.
"In scraps of spare time, Mr. Revkin is also a performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He accompanies Pete Seeger on occasion at regional shows and performs with his own rural-roots band, Uncle Wade (myspace.com/unclewade). He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, who is a science educator, and two sons."
The Sunday walk of the Leon Levy Preserve not only honored Leon Levy but also gave a nod of thanks to the Lewisboro residents who, in the late 1990s, staged winter walks of the 386-acre tract, known then as the Bell property, as a way to build support for public acquisition.
The Town of Lewisboro bought the property in 2005, with the help of the Jerome Levy Foundation, the Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation, New York City and Westchester Land Trust.
Westchester Land Trust and Lewisboro Land Trust send their sincere thanks to the Jerome Levy Foundation and to Shelby White, whose late husband, Leon Levy, was the foundation's primary benefactor.
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On Saturday afternoon, February 28, Andrew C. Revkin, the New York Times science reporter, discussed global warming, sustainability, the news media and land preservation in a talk called
It was held in the Carriage House of the Waccabuc Country Club.
On Sunday, March 1, we held a winter walk at the Leon Levy Preserve in South Salem.
Both events were in honor of the late philanthropist Leon Levy. The Winter Walk and Environmental Symposium were organized by Westchester Land Trust and its local chapter, the Lewisboro Land Trust, and were generously sponsored by the Jerome Levy Foundation, of which Leon Levy was the primary benefactor.
In addition to Andrew Revkin, the symposium also featured two local experts - Paul Gallagher and Guy Hodges - who gave a brief history of the preserve.
Revkin, who lives in Garrison, has vast experience in covering science and the environment, for the Times and other publications. Here's his bio:
"One of America's most honored science writers, Andrew C. Revkin has spent a quarter century providing ground-breaking coverage of subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the politics of climate to science at the North Pole. He has been an environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995. His coverage of climate change was honored with the John Chancellor Award for sustained journalistic excellence in 2008, and won the inaugural National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States' preeminent scientific body. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, along with other prizes, has won an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.
"He is a pioneer in multimedia journalism, filing audio, video, and award-winning photography along with his stories from far-flung places. With his Dot Earth blog (nytimes.com/dotearth), which Time Magazine calls a "must read," Revkin has become what the magazine says is the "de factor moderator" of the national discourse on global warming.
"Revkin has written several books, including The Burning Season, on the murder of Amazon defender Chico Mendes, which was awarded the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was made into the HBO film of the same name, which won three Golden Globes and two Emmys. His newest book, and first for younger readers, is The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, on the once and future Arctic. He has a biology degree from Brown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. He has taught at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and Bard College.
"In scraps of spare time, Mr. Revkin is also a performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He accompanies Pete Seeger on occasion at regional shows and performs with his own rural-roots band, Uncle Wade (myspace.com/unclewade). He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, who is a science educator, and two sons."
The Sunday walk of the Leon Levy Preserve not only honored Leon Levy but also gave a nod of thanks to the Lewisboro residents who, in the late 1990s, staged winter walks of the 386-acre tract, known then as the Bell property, as a way to build support for public acquisition.
The Town of Lewisboro bought the property in 2005, with the help of the Jerome Levy Foundation, the Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation, New York City and Westchester Land Trust.
Westchester Land Trust and Lewisboro Land Trust send their sincere thanks to the Jerome Levy Foundation and to Shelby White, whose late husband, Leon Levy, was the foundation's primary benefactor.