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Bill McKibben, author of End of Nature and Deep Economy, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish in Decatur (map here). The event is co-sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book and Georgia Interfaith Power and Light. A collection of his essays, The Bill McKibben Reader, goes on sale tomorrow. One of his more recent works, Fight Global Warming Now – The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community, is worth a look, judging that the General Assembly this year isn’t taking any steps to address the phenomenon.

McKibben’s writings have been informing audiences about global warming long before An Inconvenient Truth made climate change a dinner table conversation topic. In fact, Al Gore attributes much of his passion to the cause to McKibben. According to this Wikipedia entry Gore wrote in 2007 “when I was serving in the Senate, Bill McKibben’s descriptions of the planetary impacts… made such an impression on me that it led, among other things, to my receiving the honorific title ‘Ozone Man’ from the first president Bush.”

McKibben writes for many big name pubs like The New York Times, The Atlantic and Harpers. Plus he’s a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, just down the street from where my mom now lives.