Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

"How Much is Enough?: The Environmental Moment as
a Pivot Point in Human History."

by

Bill McKibben

Fellow
The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life
The Divinity School
Harvard University

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Biographical Background

       Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist. A graduate of Harvard College and former staff writer at the New Yorker, he has lived for the last 12 years in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. His first book, The End of Nature, was also the first book for a general audience about climate change. It has now been translated into 20 languages, and a special tenth anniversary edition was issued in the United States last year. His other books include The Age of Missing Information, and Hope, Human and Wild.

       His work has also appears regularly in a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Natural History, the Atlantic, and Harpers. He has received Guggenheim and Lyndhurst fellowships, and honorary degrees from several American colleges. He is the 2000 recipient of the Lannan Prize in Nonfiction Writing, and is spending the 2000-2001 academic year as a fellow of the Center for the Study of Values and Public Life.

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