Now at Columbia University's Earth Institute, I help advance sustainability-focused storytelling and communication innovation and conversations. My mantra: In a complex, fast-forward world, the human trick in this century is to foster practices and policies that result in us "falling forward" without falling down, in the sense described by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841:

"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls. The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.”

Learn more here http://j.mp/revkininfo and explore my 2,800-plus Dot Earth posts at http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com