Saturday, September 14 at 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30) in the Auditorium of the Old Administration Building, Fresno City College Bill McKibben speaks in Fresno.
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with “The End of Nature” in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist,” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.” Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. Bill McKibben’s latest book “Oil and Honey” will be available to purchase at the event. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call the Fresno Center for Nonviolence Mon-Fri 11-3 at 559-237-3223 or email Angela Price at angela.price41@comcast.net.
This talk is sponsored by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence and as part of the Beth Ann Harnish Memorial Lecture Series. Co-sponsors include the Social Sciences Division of Fresno City College, Unitarian Universalist Church, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Fresno, Sierra Club Tehipite Chapter, College Community Congregational Church Peace and Justice Committee, First Congregational Church (Big Red Church), Fresno Free College Foundation/KFCF, Reedley Peace Center, Save Our Streams Council, Wesley United Methodist Church Social Action Team and T and D Willey Farms.
