Tannery Pond Center presents our Tannery Talk: Face to the Sun: Renewable Energy as a Last Chance
Sunday, July 20 | 2 PM
Suggested donation at the door: $10
Presentation and Q&A to follow.
Presentation Summary: Bill McKibben will talk about plans for the upcoming SunDay national day of action, and give the audience an advanced peek at his book “Here Comes the Sun”, due out in August.
Author, Educator, Activist, founder of Third Act
Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a
dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.