Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben 

Bill McKibben is the author of numerous bestselling books on the environment, including The End of Nature (1989), the first book to alert general readers to the climate crisis. His 2022 book is The Flag, theCross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, a reflection on disturbing developments in the nature of American patriotism, faith, and prosperity.
​This event was Bill's first appearance at the NYS Writers Institute since 1992. He also attended our inaugural Telling the Truth symposium in 1991.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said, “If we survive the interlocking plagues of climate change, right-wing authoritarianism, and savage inequality, future generations will utter the name of the New England moral visionary and activist McKibben with the reverence we speak of Emerson, Thoreau, and Garrison.”
Moderated by NYS Writers Institute Opalka Endowed Director Paul Grondahl.
Co-sponsored by UAlbany’s Office of Sustainability and the UAlbany Environmental Humanities Lab