POST presents Bill McKibben in Mountain View Thursday

EDITOR’S NOTE: Bill McKibben is one of my favorite writers. "The End of Nature" is still an important book on global warming, even though it was written 20 years ago. "The Age of Missing Information" changed the way I think about TV. And you’d be surprised just how much I think about TV. His latest book, "Deep Economy", emphasizes moving beyond growth and focusing on local and regional self-reliance, something that might have lessons for the future of the Coastside.

Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) opens its 15th Annual Wallace Stegner Lecture Series with Bill McKibben. McKibben, a former staff writer for The New Yorker, writes about global warming, alternative energy and the risks associated with human genetic engineering.

McKibben’s new book "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future", makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.
 
Bill McKibben’s lecture will be held at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts on March 20 at 8:00 p.m., and will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book-signing reception.
            
For more information on the Wallace Stegner Lecture Series or to purchase a subscription, please contact POST at (650) 854-7696. Single tickets for Bill McKibben, N. Scott Momaday and Kaiulani Lee are $22 and can be ordered through the box office at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts at (650) 903-6000.