Event Details - Conversation with Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben, in conversation with Joe Donohue

Gannett Auditorium at 6 pm

Tickets are required— get them here

The acclaimed author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will discuss his latest book, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization with Joe Donahue of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. This event is organized by Northshire Bookstore and co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies and Sciences Department and Sustainable Saratoga. Half of all ticket proceeds will be donated to Sustainable Saratoga.  

Here Comes the Sun is an honest but hopeful assessment of the climate crisis from “probably the nation’s leading environmentalist” (Boston Globe). McKibben makes the case for sun and wind energy as major asset in the fight against climate change, tracing the history of solar power from a grassroots environmental project to a potential disruptor to the fossil fuel economy. By embracing these alternatives, he argues, we can reclaim the mantle of technological progressivism in a way that benefits the many rather than the few.