{"id":21626,"date":"1996-03-19T10:19:12","date_gmt":"1996-03-19T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21626"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:50:38","slug":"bill-mckibben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1996\/03\/19\/bill-mckibben\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author to deliver annual Muskie lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Bill McKibben, whose books include the bestseller <em>The End of Nature<\/em>, will present the annual Edmund S. Muskie Environmental Lecture at 7:30 p.m., March 28, in the Muskie Archives.<\/p>\n<p>McKibben&#8217;s talk, <em>Hope, Fear and the History of the Next 50 Years: An Environmentalist&#8217;s Perspective<\/em>, is open to the public at no charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker, McKibben also is the author of the books <em>Hope, Human and Wild<\/em> and <em>The Age of Missing Information<\/em>. He edited or co-authored the volumes <em>Birch Browsings: A John Burroughs Reader<\/em> and <em>Twenty-Five Bike Tours in the Adirondacks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His articles have appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Outside. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Muskie Lecture at Bates is a tribute to Edmund S. Muskie, a 1936 Bates graduate who in his 22 years in the U.S. Senate sponsored landmark environmental legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Bill McKibben, whose books include the best-seller The End of Nature, will present the annual Edmund S. Muskie Environmental Lecture at 7:30 p.m. March 28 in the Muskie Archives. McKibben&#8217;s talk, Hope, Fear and the History of the Next 50 Years: An Environmentalist&#8217;s Perspective, is open to the public at no charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[232,39],"tags":[10859,3145,3319],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-sustainability","category-event-highlights","tag-bill-mckibben","tag-edmund-s-muskie","tag-environmentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92213,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions\/92213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}