DirtE Talk  

DirtE Talk series is an initiative to break the myth that fossil fuel based development is the only way for India to prosper.In November 350.org is organizing a series of events which would talk on climate change and how energy is generated, consumed and distributed in India. Activists from struggles and experts give us insights on how India can shift from fossil fuels to renewable and meet our energy needs.

Please join us at

Venue : Dr. N.T.R Auditorium, Telugu University
               Public Gardens, Nampally,Hyderabad

Date :    Friday 07 November 2014

Time :    5 PM -8 PM

Key Speaker:

Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He is a founder of 350.org, an organisation named after the safe level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 350 parts per million. The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Right Livelihood award or the Alternative Nobel, and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.

Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.” A former staff writer for the New Yorker,he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic,and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.