October 16, 2001

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: October 16, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of “The End

of Nature,” has been appointed visiting scholar in

environmental studies at Middlebury College. While at

Middlebury for the one-year appointment that is effective

for the 2001-2002 academic year, he will work on a new book

about the environmental implications of biotechnology. Prior

to his arrival at the College, he was a fellow at the

Harvard University Center for the Study of Values in Public

Life.

McKibben’s

first book, “The End of Nature,” which was published in

1989, was one of the early accounts for a general audience

of the practical and philosophical problems posed by global

warming. It has been translated into 20 languages and was

re-issued in a 10th-anniversary edition in 1999. His other

books include “The Age of Missing Information” and “Hope,

Human and Wild.”

A former

staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, McKibben writes

regularly for numerous publications, including the Atlantic

Monthly, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, The New York

Times, The New Yorker, Natural History and Outside Magazine.

He is the

recipient of Guggenheim and Lyndhurst fellowships, and the

winner of the 2000 Lannan Prize in Nonfiction Writing.

McKibben holds honorary doctorates from several

institutions, including Green Mountain College in Poultney.

He was honored with an award from the Ripton-based Spirit in

Nature organization, and received a Bicentennial medal from

Middlebury College in the fall of 2000.