Bill McKibben Presents "Money and Climate - Can both Exxon and the Planet be Healthy?"

As part of the June 8-10 ‘Strategies for a New Economy’ Conference at Bard College, the New Economics Institute is hosting activist and environmentalist Bill McKibben.

McKibben is the author of a dozen books, including The End of Nature, and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. A former staff writer of The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. In April 2007 he organized the Step It Up national day of rallies, the largest global-warming protest to date. He is the founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009.

The event is FREE and open to all Conference attendees and the general public.