Thursday, September 4, 2008

Bill McKibben
Author and Environmentalist

Lecture: Deep Economy: Economics as if the Earth Mattered
10:10 a.m.
Gulick Theatre

Conversation and Town Meeting
Building the Global Climate Movement
2:00 p.m.
Gulick Theatre

Reading from Recent Work
8:00 p.m.
Eben Holden

Bill McKibben’s newest book is a collection of essays, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life.  He is the author of a dozen nonfiction books, among them The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Economies and the Durable Future.  A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Review of Books, among other publications.  In April 2007 he organized the Step It Up national day of rallies, the largest global warming protest to date.  He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.