{"id":6823,"date":"2011-04-07T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:45:55","slug":"did-you-miss-mckibbons-talk-on-350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6823","title":{"rendered":"Did you miss McKibben&#8217;s talk on 350??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmckibben.com\/bio.html\"><strong>Bill McKibben<\/strong><\/a>, American environmentalist and writer who founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.350.org\/\">350.org<\/a>, spoke about <strong>350: The Most Important Number in the World<\/strong> on Tues., Apr. 5, at the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It was the last Spring 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/about\/lecture\/\">Contemporary Issues Lecture<\/a> sponsored by the College of Letters and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/endnat.jpg\" alt=\"End of nature cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Several of Mr. McKibben&#8217;s books are available in Andersen Library, including <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PJJqIighGX0C&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Earth under fire: How global warming is changing the world<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QC981.8.C5 B715 2007) and  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q0aM5t5GMpsC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The end of nature<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, GF75 .M38 2006). Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat Andersen Library catalog<\/a> for these and other titles. In addition, UWW students and staff may request these and other titles from other UW campus libraries by using the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. Requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the deal with 350? According to the 350.org site, &#8220;Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity.&#8221; You can see various video clips of Bill McKibben on YouTube, and also view a longer speech via Australian Broadcasting Corporation of <a href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/2009\/05\/06\/Bill_McKibben_350_The_Most_Important_Number_in_the_World\">Mr. McKibben speaking at the University of Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill McKibben, American environmentalist and writer who founded 350.org, spoke about 350: The Most Important Number in the World on Tues., Apr. 5, at the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It was the last Spring 2011 Contemporary Issues Lecture sponsored by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[324,178,32,339,353],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}