Bill McKibben on "Here Comes the Sun" and the Path to a Climate-Safe Future
When and Where
Speakers
Description
Join the School of the Environment and the Rotman Sustainability Initiative on Monday, November 24th, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Desautels Hall (105 Saint George Street Toronto, ON M5S 3E6) as acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben discusses his new book "Here Comes the Sun" as part of Dobson Business & Climate Week 2025.
This event is available to attend in-person or virtually via livestream. Attendance is free for University of Toronto students and staff, and paid for members of the public.
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Agenda
| 5:30 PM | Author presentation + moderated discussion with audience Q&A |
| 6:30 PM | Light refreshments + book signing |
About the Speaker
Bill McKibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. Founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change, he lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.
Book Synopsis
From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.
Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history—if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance.
Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind—and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the world’s sixth-largest economy—California—nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves—it’s available to all.
There’s no guarantee we can make this change in time, but there is a hope—in McKibben’s eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.
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