Northshire Saratoga: Bill McKibben "Here Comes the Sun" with Joe Donahue

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 co-sponsored by the Skidmore College Environmental Studies and Sciences Program 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.

Advance Praise for Here Comes the Sun:

"No one has done more to raise the alarm about climate change or to address the problem than Bill McKibben. In Here Comes the Sun, he shows that we all have the technologies we need to move forward. If any book could make a thinking person hopeful about the future, this is it."

― Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

"This is a history, a handbook, a hopeful look at the energy revolution that’s already well underway. Here Comes the Sun takes us into a new era beyond fossil fuels and all the literal and political poison they bring―and shows us what the obstacles are in getting there."

― Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Bill McKibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. Founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change, he lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.

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