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Environmentalist Bill McKibben in Conversation

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Partner:: City Arts & Lectures
Location:: City Arts & Lectures
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 03.24.08
Speakers:: Mark Hertsgaard,; Bill McKibben
Tags:: green; alternative energy; environmentalism; environmental policy; Obama administration

Summary: Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben is known for exploring civic engagement on such issues as global warming, alternative energy, and human genetic engineering. Imbued with a sense of urgency, his writing offers perspectives on integrating science, society and environmental policy in a complex and evolving world.

McKibben's influential essays are collected in The Bill McKibben Reader and his numerous titles include The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Hope, Human, and Wild.

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, is the author's manifesto for moving beyond growth economics and transitioning to more local-scale enterprise.

In the summer of 2006, Bill McKibben organized the largest public demonstrations about climate change in the United States. He has since founded stepitup07.org, a group that pressures Congress to enact curbs on carbon emissions.

McKibben is a frequent contributor to periodicals as diverse as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. Previously awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, Bill McKibben received the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000 - City Arts & Lectures

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Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist based in San Francisco, is the author of five books that have been translated into sixteen languages. He covers climate change for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines.

Mark Hertsgaard is the author of five books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency.

A correspondent for Link TV and The Nation and L'espresso magazines, he has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The Guardian, Die Zeit and other leading publications around the world. His next book is called, Hot: Living Through the Storm: Surviving the Next 50 Years of Global Warming.

Bill McKibben

Environmentalist Bill McKibben is a scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College.

McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent.

He is the author of The End of Nature (1989), the first book for a general audience about global warming. Recent books include Enough (2004), which critiques human genetic engineering and other rapidly advancing technologies; Wandering Home (2005), which catalogs his foot-travels across the Vermont landscape; and Age of Missing Information (2006), in which he compares his experience watching 1700 hours of videotaped TV to that of contemplating nature in the Adirondacks.

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01.: Bill McKibben on Organizing Demonstrations

05 min 26 sec

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02.: 350.org

03 min 49 sec

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03.: COPENMIND 2008

06 min 17 sec

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04.: Building a Movement

03 min 29 sec

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05.: Environment is Not a Partisan Issue

01 min 42 sec

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06.: On The Next President

02 min 02 sec

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07.: Obama and the Environment

02 min 08 sec

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08.: Environmentalism and Civil Rights Movement

02 min 27 sec

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09.: Writing Ethic

05 min 11 sec

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Bill McKibben: The Environment Is Non-Partisan

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Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben describes the environment as a non-partisan issue.
Bill McKibben on Obama and the Environment

04 min 39 sec

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Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben rates Presidential candidate Barack Obama on the environment issue.
Environmentalism: The New Civil Rights Movement

02 min 57 sec

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Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben compares the environmental movement to the civil rights movement.
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