Gary Nabhan & Bill McKibben in fireside conversation–Local Food: Past, Present, and What’s Next
Monday, January 27th at 4:00 PM
Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College
Free and open to the public
Join Gary Nabhan (“Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land”) and Bill McKibben (“Oil and Honey”) as they share readings from their latest books, reflect on the history of the local food movement, and envision the future of sustainable agriculture.
Ethnobotanist and MacArthur “genius grant” winner Nabhan is a leading voice in the local food movement and a tireless advocate of cultural and ecological diversity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. A grassroots conservationist and the author of twenty-four books, Nabhan has performed pioneering research in heirloom seed saving and has been instrumental in the creation of a more “just, nutritious, sustainable and climate-resilient foodshed” in the desert Southwest.
Bill McKibben is a world-renowned author, educator, environmentalist, co-founder of 350.org, and serves as Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury.
The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest is honored to welcome Nabhan to campus as the 2014 Environmental Writer-in-Residence,
where he will add his learned voice to the on-campus conversation around food studies at Middlebury.
Cosponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, Middlebury College Organic Farm, Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference, Office of Academic Affairs, Program in Environmental Studies, and Biology Department