350.org Founder Coming to Naropa University to Discuss the “The Hottest Fight in the Hottest Year”
***POSTPONED per Naropa U message on June 18th***
Released by Bill Rigler, naropa.edu via PR Newswire
On April 22, 2016, Naropa University announced that Bill McKibben, one of the most influential climate change activists in the world, will be a featured speaker at Naropa’s vaunted Summer Writing Program on June 18, 2016.
This public event will be McKibben’s first appearance in Boulder since 2012, when the 350.org founder appeared before a sold-out audience as part of the ‘Do the Math’ tour to encourage divestment to decrease carbon emissions. As a result, Naropa University became one of only 12 universities in the country to fully and completely divest from fossil fuels. This event is co-sponsored by Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program & the Joanna Macy Center. Participants in the Summer Writing Program will receive free admission to the program.
Bill McKibben, the co-founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand 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. McKibben is the recipient of the 2014 Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ He has authored more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change.
Advance ticket sales for this event are available now at eventbrite.
Located in Boulder, Colorado, Naropa University is a private, liberal arts institution offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Naropa University is a leader in contemplative education, an approach to learning and teaching that integrates Eastern wisdom traditions and traditional Western scholarship. Naropa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
For more information on Naropa University, visit their website at www.naropa.edu.
Visit 350.org to learn about their activities, or www.billmckibben.com for more about the speaker.
