


<p><font size=4><span class=pagetitle>Environmental Activist Bill McKibben at MHC</span></font></p>

<p>Posted: April 8, 2009</p>
<p>Best-selling author, activist, and Middlebury College scholar Bill McKibben delivered an evening lecture titled &ldquo;350--The Most Important Number in the World,&rdquo; in which he melded his insightful understanding of communities, environmental policy, and climate change into a call for action&mdash;and offered alternatives for individual as well as collective engagement with this critical issue.<br />
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<p><strong>Part 1: Introduction by Beth Hooker </strong><br />
(2.2MB, Time: 4:42)<br />
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<p><b>Part 2: Introduction by Kirstin Dubois</b> (1.2 MB, Time: 4:39) <br />
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<p><b>Part 3: Bill McKibben</b>(17.7 MB, Time: 38:45 - Excerpt)<br />
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<p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/stories/5681208">Environmental Activist Bill McKibben April 2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/ce/5598.shtml">Center for the Environment</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.350.org/">350.org</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kestreltrust.org/">Kestrel Trust</a></p>

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