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Author, 350.org founder to share front-line tales of environmentalism
Portrait of Bill McKibben, author and activist. photo ©Nancie Battaglia
Environmentalist and author Bill McGibben will discuss how the movement to address climate change is facing the financial power of the fossil fuel industry in a free public talk 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 16, in the UC Davis Conference Center.
The founder of 350.org, which since 2009 has coordinated some 15,000 climate change rallies in 189 countries, McKibben is the author of a dozen books, the first of which, 1989’s “The End of Nature,” is regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience.
His writing also has been included in numerous publications — including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Outside and The Atlantic Monthly — and he has been called “the planet’s best green journalist” by Time magazine and “probably the country’s most important environmental journalist” by the Boston Globe, according to a news release.
McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2011, he was elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Capital Public Radio and the UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment are co-hosting his talk.
Admission is free, but those who wish to attend are asked to register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3093844773?ref=ebtnebregn.
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