Public Lecture - Now or Never: A conversation with Bill McKibben on fossil fuel divestment, global activism and why we have no time to waste

In the wake of the giant People's Climate March and the ongoing burst of global activism, Bill McKibben will describe where we are scientifically and politically in the fight to end our reliance on fossil fuel. He'll show pictures of the burgeoning movement around the planet and give advice on how we can get involved in our homes, our communities and our universities.

Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He is founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement. The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities; Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world's 100 most important global thinkers, and theBoston Globe said he was "probably America's most important environmentalist." A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.

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