Environmentalist Bill McKibben Kicks Off the 2013 Leadership Lecture Series at Dominican

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben kicks off the 10th season of the Institute for Leadership Studies (ILS) Leadership Fall Lecture Series at Dominican University of California on Wednesday night, September 25. McKibben, author of more than a dozen books about the environment and winner of the Sophie Prize in Norway and the Gandhi Peace Award, will discuss his latest book, Oil and Honey: the Education of an Unlikely Activist.

Time Magazine has called McKibben “the planet's best green journalist” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country's most important environmentalist.”

In the summer of 2011, McKibben was handcuffed and jailed after leading the largest civil disobedience in 30 years by protesting in front of the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline. In Oil and Honey, McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper, raising one year’s honey crop and building a social movement. His much-larger fight is finding solutions against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole.

Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature. It has entertained and educated thousands of Marin County and San Francisco Bay Area residents. The speaker series, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s ILS and Book Passage.

All lectures are open to the public. Lectures begin at 7 pm in Angelico Hall. Doors open at 6 pm. To purchase books or obtain more information, contact Book Passage by calling (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 or visiting www.bookpassage.com.

McKibben will be joined on the 2013 fall lecture series schedule by New York Times’ two-time number-one bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell on October 9; Elizabeth Gilbert, one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, on October 16; critically-acclaimed poet Billy Collins on November 7; and Emmy Award-winning Food Network host Giada de Laurentiis on November 16.

To learn more about the Leadership Lecture Series, visit www.dominican.edu/lectures.