Spotlight 802 - Bill McKibben - Author, Educator, & Environmentalist
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Spotlight 802 is a monthly speaker series that brings engaging voices from across Vermont to share their insights, experiences, and expertise. Each month features a new speaker exploring a wide variety of topics - ranging from innovation and entrepreneurship to athletics, culture, and community impact. Whether you're looking to be inspired, learn something new, or spark meaningful conversations, Spotlight 802 is your front-row seat to ideas that shape our world.
Each evening consists of free appetizers from 5:30-6:00pm, followed by a speaker and Q&A from 6:00 to 7:00pm in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium within City Hall (180 Market Street).
This program is open to South Burlington and surrounding community residents! Free and no registration required.
Bill McKibben - Author, Educator, & Environmentalist
Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justic. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguised Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the 'alternative Nobel', in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written more than twenty books about hte environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag,The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.
Each evening consists of free appetizers from 5:30-6:00pm, followed by a speaker and Q&A from 6:00 to 7:00pm in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium within City Hall (180 Market Street).
This program is open to South Burlington and surrounding community residents! Free and no registration required.
Bill McKibben - Author, Educator, & Environmentalist
Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justic. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguised Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the 'alternative Nobel', in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written more than twenty books about hte environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag,The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.
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180 Market Street, South Burlington, VT, United States, Vermont 05403
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Host or PublisherSouth Burlington Recreation and Parks
