Third Act's co-founder and renowned author Bill McKibben to discuss his new book, "Here Comes the Sun," and how you can help accelerate clean renewable solar power.
About this event
Third Act’s co-founder and renowned author Bill McKibben will discuss his new book, “Here Comes the Sun” (published August 19th) in conversation with Rebecca Solnit.
Join Third Act for a virtual book launch on August 26 at 7 pm ET (6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT) to hear about the power of the sun and how you can help make solar energy a reality, before he starts his cross-country book tour in September.
From the publisher’s description: Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history—if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance.
“Here Comes the Sun” provides the analysis and inspiration that will fuel the national Sun Day mobilization on September 21, 2025. Join Bill and other speakers to learn about this new book and how you can get involved with Sun Day to celebrate and accelerate clean, solar and renewable energy.
Bill McKibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. He is the founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College.
Bill was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist, and the author of over eighteen books on the environment, western and indigenous history, feminism, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark.
Rebecca has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian.
