December 22, 2004

Special Presentation and Book Signing With New York Times Reporter
Lecture and Book Signing January 11 at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps

By Mario Aguilera

Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites you to join Andrew Revkin, acclaimed New York Times environment reporter, on Tuesday, January 11, as he presents "The Daily Planet: A Journalist's Journey from the Amazon to the Arctic in Search of Sustainability." The presentation will begin at 3 p.m. and will be followed by a book signing.

During the lively presentation Revkin will discuss his prize-winning book, “The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest,” which chronicles the late 20th-century assault on the Amazon and the murder of Chico Mendes, the homegrown defender of the rain forest.

Prize-winning author Revkin will describe his 20-year (and counting) search for ways to mesh the human adventure with the planet’s limits. This quest has taken him to the Amazon, with the resulting book, “The Burning Season,” chronicling 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.

The lecture and book signing will be held in the Scripps Explorers Gallery at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, 2300 Expedition Way, in La Jolla. This event is included with paid aquarium admission: $10 adults; $8.50 seniors; $7 non-UCSD college students with ID; $6.50 ages 3-17. Free 3-hour parking is included. Aquarium admission will be waived for this event with a valid UCSD ID card.

For more information on “The Burning Season,” visit islandpress.org/burning. For more information on this event, please call (858) 534-3624 or visit aquarium.ucsd.edu or scripps.ucsd.edu

Media Contacts: Mario Aguilera or Jessica Demian (858) 534-3624