Bill McKibben on UT Panel on Sustainability and Divestment

Date: April 9, 2014

Time: 5:00 pm  to  7:00 pm

Location: KLRU Studio 6A, CMB Building, University of Texas, Austin

A panel featuring environmentalist Bill McKibben and finance professors Keith Brown and Laura Starks will discuss the national movement to pressure colleges and universities to divest their endowment funds from fossil fuels.

McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with the first book for a general audience on climate change, The End of Nature in 1989. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org.

Doors open at 4:30 pm for refreshments and the event starts at 5 pm. More information online.

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