Bill McKibben — A Fresh Start for Our Cities
Environmental writer and activist argues that abundant renewable energy holds the potential to fundamentally transform how we build and inhabit cities.
Date & Time at 6:30 PM EST
Location Harvard Graduate School of Design Boston, US
Organizer Harvard GSD
Why we picked this
The writer who first alerted the public to climate change now argues that cheap solar energy could reshape cities entirely. Free at Harvard GSD.
Bill McKibben wrote “The End of Nature” in 1989, one of the first books to bring climate change to a general audience. Thirty-seven years later, he’s moved from alarm to architecture: his argument now is that the plummeting cost of solar energy doesn’t just solve the emissions problem — it creates the conditions for fundamentally rethinking how cities are built and inhabited.
At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where the audience brings architectural and planning expertise to McKibben’s environmental vision. Free and livestreamed.