Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including The End of Nature (1989), the first book for a general audience about global warming. A scholar in residence at Middlebury College, he is also the founder of the first global scale grassroots campaign to fight climate change, 350.org

McKibbon has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000.

Past Events

• Carbon Conundrum Testing Earth’s Limits

  2009 Festival

  Bill Ritter hosts a powerhouse panel including James Hansen,Thomas Lovejoy, Bill McKibben, Sylvia Earle, David Battisti and Robert Corell to probe the science and policy behind one of the most urgent debates of our times.

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