October 2, 2019
Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben will make a low-carbon appearance at The Ohio State University in Columbus, speaking about "The Climate Crisis and the 2020 Election" on Thursday, October 10, at 7 p.m. in 103 Kottman Hall, School of Environment and Natural Resources, 2021 Coffey Road. The event is free but registration is required at bit.ly/mckibbenosu
Leading into the fourth Democratic presidential primary debate to be held in Central Ohio on October 15, McKibben will appear by video conference to discuss the climate plans of the Democratic candidates and the importance of climate change in the 2020 election. A question-and-answer period will follow the presentation. Students, faculty, Sierra Club members, and the community are welcome to attend.
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel." His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books.
He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized 20,000 rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”
A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat — Megophthalmidia mckibbeni — in his honor.
He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized 20,000 rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”
A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat — Megophthalmidia mckibbeni — in his honor.
Location
This event will take place at The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, 103 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Paid parking is available in the Agricultural Administration Building lot across Woody Hayes Ave.
You may also take the COTA #1 bus to the stop at West Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Road, then take the walking trail south by the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering and USDA Agricultural Research Service, cross Woody Hayes Road, and find Kottman Hall off Coffey Road near Plumb Hall and the Learning Gardens on The Ohio State University west campus.
This event will take place at The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, 103 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Paid parking is available in the Agricultural Administration Building lot across Woody Hayes Ave.
You may also take the COTA #1 bus to the stop at West Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Road, then take the walking trail south by the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering and USDA Agricultural Research Service, cross Woody Hayes Road, and find Kottman Hall off Coffey Road near Plumb Hall and the Learning Gardens on The Ohio State University west campus.