Goodman, McKibben featured in public talk at Spruce Peak

A new series of public conversations kicks off next week in Stowe with a visit from author and activist Bill McKibben.

The Vermont Town Hall will hold a conversation with McKibben at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.

In a unique format, McKibben, the author of a dozen books about the environment and the founder of the global grassroots climate campaign 350.org, will have a live interview and conversation on stage with David Goodman, Waterbury author and journalist and host of the popular radio show “The Vermont Conversation,” which airs weekly on WDEV.

The public conversation with McKibben will then shift to the audience for questions and a moderated dialogue. This conversation with McKibben will take place in the heart of Vermont ski country, which he predicts will be profoundly impacted by a warming planet.

Time magazine dubbed McKibben “the planet’s best green journalist” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.”

“This a rare chance to hear one of the world’s leading environmental thinkers and activists in an informal conversation talking about the ideas and experiences that have shaped him, what he sees for the future and what makes him tick,” says Goodman.

First in a series of adventures of the mind, the Vermont Town Hall will feature intriguing people from all walks of life in public, moderated conversations. Guests are invited to come with their questions and leave with a better understanding of the world around them.  

The Vermont Town Hall is the brainchild of four friends who live in Vermont: management consultant Katrina Veerman, author and journalist Goodman, social entrepreneur Craig DeLuca, and Stowe Reporter and Waterbury Record publisher Biddle Duke. The series is inspired by the tradition of Vermont town meetings, in which global issues are discussed in local setting.

Tickets are $5, available at sprucepeakarts.org.