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Bill McKibben to speak in Weston

March 25, 2012 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben will be speaking in Weston on March 25th as the featured speaker at the annual Harnish Lecture. Bill’s topic will be a report from the front lines of the climate fight – “A few jailhouse notes on what we still can do”.

The Harnish lecture is presented by the Environmental Action Group of The Congregational Church of Weston, UCC. The lecture will be held at Weston High School, 444 Wellesley St. in Weston at 3:00 pm.

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009.

  • Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’
  • Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges.
  • In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Bill grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and now resides in Vermont
Bill McKibben to speak in Weston
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Date:
March 25, 2012
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Weston High School
444 Wellesley St.
Weston, MA United States
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