Please join Responsible Environmental Protection for New Hampshire (REP-NH) and celebrated author/climate activist Bill McKibben in Concord on Tuesday, October 4th in support of New Hampshire candidates that will put environmental values at the top of their priority list. The goal is to support climate action and a clean energy economy that will provide economic opportunity for our communities and jobs for our citizens.
Donations are highly encouraged, but not required, to attend. For more information and to RSVP click here.
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Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, a group that organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s written 20 books, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone.
McKibben helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, which has organized protests on every continent, including Antarctica, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects like Keystone XL, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history, with endowments worth more than $40 trillion stepping back from oil, gas and coal. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat— Megophthalmidia mckibbeni – in his honor.