Bill McKibben Is Coming To Portland!

Bill McKibben is coming to Portland again! I am so excited! I have seen Bill McKibben speak several times now and each time has been a deeply informative, moving, awakening and inspiring experience. I am hoping that many will come and/or spread the word. In my perspective, it is deeply important that each of us finds our unique ways of connecting with those who bring us the bigger pictures and the truth about the most urgent issues of our times. Often what is happening today also has its roots in a history that goes way back, a history that's gone unacknowledged, denied, distorted, covered over, and, therefore, unhealed. The time for our healing as individuals and collectively as the human family and as members of our planetary family is now. It is now. There are those who again and again and again illuminate and inspire and awaken us to those issues that our culture often works to conceal rather than expose, and even though the well being of our children and future generations and even all of life depend upon us having this information. Bill McKibben is among those courageous and wise ones who has been tirelessly on the front lines working to create a more sustainable, peaceful, healing, and caring world. May we join him and all those who are inviting us to become part of this Great Awakening. For those unable to come to this event, please consider reading Bill's most recent book Eaarth - http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/eaarthbook.html Another world is possible. ~ Molly

350PDX Presents Bill McKibben

 Sunday, October 23rd at 7pm

First Unitarian Church

1211 SW Main Street, Portland, OR 97205

Join 350PDX on Sunday, October 23rd for a special talk by Bill McKibben, world-renowned environmental activist, author and founder of 350.org, on the Climate’s Future at the First Unitarian Church (1211 SW Main St in downtown Portland). Tickets are $10 for students and $20 general admission, no one will be turned away for lack of funds (email mia@350pdx.org for low-income tickets). Doors open at 6:30pm.

This event was originally scheduled for June 17th.

Bill McKibben is a world renowned author and environmental activist. His 1989 groundbreaking book The End of Nature was the first of his 13 remarkable books about climate change. In 2007 he helped found 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.

350.org is an international grassroots climate change initiative which has organized over 20,000 rallies around the globe to promote fossil fuel divestment. 350 means climate safety, reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of over 400 parts per million to a livable planet level of 350ppm.

350PDX

is building a diverse grassroots movement to help solve the climate crisis. We are volunteer led, with a 150-person core organized in teams: Arts & Events, Outreach, Communications, Development, Divest/Reinvest, and 5 neighborhood teams. With one foot in politics and one foot in the streets, 350PDX models localized solutions to the climate crisis.

For more and to purchase tickets, please go here: https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/350pdx-presents-bill-mckibben?clear_id=true