Author Bill McKibben speaks October 27
in Mead Chapel 'On Loving a Damaged Planet'
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Author Bill McKibben, scholar in residence in environmental studies at Middlebury College, will speak "On Loving a Damaged Planet" at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 27, at Mead Memorial Chapel. The talk is part of the Middlebury Mountain Club's 75th anniversary symposium.
McKibben is the author of 10 books on subjects related to the environment, including The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience about global warming, which is now available in more than 20 languages. A former staff writer at The New Yorker, his work appears in Harpers, the New York Review of Books, the National Geographic, the Atlantic Monthly, Orion, Outside, and a wide range of other national and international publications. McKibben is currently editing the Library of America's new anthology of American environmental writing.
Also as part of the Mountain Club symposium, "Teaching the Environment," Middlebury students will give presentations on their personal outdoor education experiences on Thursday, October 26, at 4:30 p.m., at McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 219.
Mead Chapel and McCardell Bicentennial Hall are both off College Street (Route 125) on the Middlebury College campus.