Bill McKibben: Global Warming, Climate Change Activism, 350
Bill McKibben
Scholar-in-Residence in Environmental Studies
Franklin Environmental Ctr Hillcrest 205
Phone: 802.443.3489
Email: wmckibbe@middlebury.edu
Topics he can discuss include: - Global warming
- Local economies and local food
- Large-scale activist movements
- Religion and environment
- Effects of television on culture and knowledge
- Eastern United States wilderness and the Adirondacks
Environmentalist and best selling author Bill McKibben is a scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College. In 2007, with six Middlebury College students, McKibben set up Step It Up 2007, which organized more than 1400 climate change demonstrations across the United States. He is now leading a similar campaign on a global basis with the group 350.org.
He is the author of "The End of Nature" (1989), the first book for a general audience about global warming. Recent books include "Deep Economy" (2006), "Enough" (2004), which critiques human genetic engineering and other rapidly advancing technologies; "Wandering Home" (2005), which catalogs his foot-travels across the Vermont landscape; and "Age of Missing Information" (2006), in which he compares his experience watching 1700 hours of videotaped TV to that of contemplating nature in the Adirondacks.
