While we urgently work to fight the greenhouse gas-producing corporate interests and systems testing the limits of the planet and its people, we must also address the fundamental need to educate people, especially students, on climate change and how to adapt and survive in a warming climate. For our children and grandchildren, teaching about climate change and empowering them to act to ensure their future is, perhaps, the greatest legacy we can leave.
About this event
Join us in conversation with Bill McKibben, Third Act’s founder, environmental educator, and author of nineteen books (most recently, Here Comes the Sun), David Kitchen, climate science professor, disaster specialist, and author of Global Climate Change: Turning Knowledge into Action, and Megan Fink, Partnership and Policy Manager for the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). Each brings a unique perspective to this essential discussion. They’ll address what we can do to promote climate education to protect the earth and to pass on to our children and grandchildren essential life skills for living in balance with nature on a changing planet.
Bill McKibben, Author, Educator, Activist, founder of Third Act
Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist, who helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, and who has recently helped found Third Act, to build a progressive organizing movement for people over the age of 60.
David Kitchen, Climate Science Professor, Disaster Specialist
David E. Kitchen is a professor at the University of Richmond specializing in geology, volcanology and climate change education. He is the author of the cross-disciplinary textbook Global Climate Change: Turning Knowledge into Action.
Megan Fink, Partnership and Policy Manager for the North American Association of Environmental Education (NAEEE)
Megan is an educator, advocate, and relationship builder, working to support national environmental education policy coalitions as the North American Association for Environmental Education’s Partnerships & Policy Manager. She is passionate about people-centered conservation, connecting communities to their local environment, and advancing education we need for the world we want.
