Sustaining Life on a Tough New Planet
Bill McKibben
Thursday, 14 Oct 2010 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben writes about global climate change, alternative energy, and economics. His new book is Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough New Planet. His other books include Wandering Home: A Long Walk through America's Most Hopeful Landscape; The End of Nature; Hope, Human and Wild; and The Age of Missing Information. McKibben is a former staff writer for the New Yorker and a frequent contributor to Harper's, Atlantic Monthly and Outside. He is also the founder of 350.org, an international organization whose mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of climate change with practical actions. The 2010 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture and part of the Live Green Sustainability Series.Listen to an interview with Bill McKibben on NPR’s Speaking of Faith - The Moral Math of Climate Change
Cosponsored By:
- Agronomy
- Bioeconomy Institute
- Bioethics Program
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
- English
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Natural Resource Ecology and Management
- Practical Farmers of Iowa
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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