Keynote Speaker: Bill McKibben
Author, Educator, Environmentalist - Saturday, November 19, 2011
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.
He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him 'the planet's best green journalist' and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was 'probably the country's most important environmentalist.' Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
For additional information about Bill McKibben and his activities, please check the following websites:
http://billmckibben.com/index.html
http://www.350.org/
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/
Selected Books:
- EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill KcKibben
- Global Warming Reader edited by Bill McKibben
- The Bill McKibben Reader by Bill McKibben
- Fight Global Warning Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Communityby Bill McKibben
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
- American Earth edited by Bill McKibben
- The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
- Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben
- Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape:
- Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks by Bill McKibben
- Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously by Bill McKibben
- Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas by Bill McKibben
- Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth by Bill McKibben
- The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben
- And others.
