Fall 2011: Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature
Global and Local: Dispatches from the Climate Fight
The sheer financial power of the fossil fuel industry is at the heart of the climate-change problem, and the climate movement is finally grappling with this reality. Bill McKibben shares stories from the front lines of this movement – from every corner of the country and the planet. Some stories are hopeful, some are not, but he brings the news that we finally, certainly, have a movement up and rolling.
Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, widely regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. In 2010 Time Magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist."
Contact Information
Lois Hoeffler
510-643-8860
114 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
About the Albright Lecture Series
This series was established at the University of California in 1959. A permanent endowment of the lectureship was provided by contributions from hundreds of generous friends and admirers of Albright. This lectureship enables the University to honor him as one of its distinguished graduates, and also to stimulate for this and future generations wide general interest in the preservation of the natural beauty of America.
Born in Bishop, California, in 1890, Horace Albright was a member of the class of 1912 at the University of California, devoted alumnus, and an honorary LL.D. (1961). He joined the Department of the Interior in 1913 as an assistant to the then Secretary Franklin K. Lane. In 1916 he helped create the National Park Service with Stephen Mather. He was the first civilian Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park from 1919 until 1929 when he was appointed the second Director of the National Park Service. He served as Director until 1933 when he left to join the U.S. Potash Company from which he retired as president in 1956.
During the time he served as a corporate executive Mr. Albright maintained an active role in the conservation of America's resources, serving as a member of the National Park System's Advisory Board, the Council of the Save-the- Redwoods League, and the advisory council of the National Outdoors Resources Review Committee. Thus, Mr. Albright's career encompassed both the preservation and utilization of natural resources. His years of service as Chair of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, Inc., typify his concern with the conservation of resources. The Albright lectures are dedicated to that end.
The nation's highest civilian award, the Medal of Freedom, was awarded to Mr. Albright by President Carter on the 64th Anniversary of the National Park Service. President Carter announced the award in August of 1980, and the medal was presented on December 8 by Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Robert L. Herbst, in a ceremony at Van Nuys, California. Horace Albright died on March 2, 1987. His lifelong dedication to conservation was exemplified by the effort in the last year of his life to assist the University of California in acquiring land for the Natural Reserve System.
Parking
Public parking (fee: hourly) is available on the 2nd level of Lower Hearst Parking Structure at the corner of Scenic Ave. & Hearst Ave. Sibley Auditorium is a 5-10 minute walk from the garage, located inside the Bechtel Engineering Center.
