Author and environmentalist, Bill McKibben joined Montana State University Campus Climate Coalition students on April 6, 2022 to discuss
"The Future of University Investing"

About this Event

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. His book The End of Nature (1989) is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and has been translated in 24 different languages. He’s gone on to write many more books, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize. In addition, he holds honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world's 100 most important global thinkers. For more information about Bill and his work, go to 350.org/bill and billmckibben.com.

The event was co-sponsored by the MSU Leadership Institute’s Changemakers Program, MSU Office of Sustainability, the MSU Department of Political Science, the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Sustainability Now, Gallatin Sunrise, the University of Montana Climate Change Studies Program and the UM Climate Response Club.