Bill McKibben's Talk: "Here Comes the Sun"

On June 16, 2026 at the Coach Barn, Bill McKibben, longtime environmental activist, writer, and champion of climate action, presented an incredible talk "Here Comes the Sun: On Hope and Possibility." It was by turns challenging and inspiring. You can watch and listen to the entire conversation above. 

In it, Bill first lays out the pivotal moment we're in: a time of climate crisis, with authoritarianism rising around the world, and short time in which to slow the bus. But he sees hope and possibility in the sudden and enormous rise in renewable energy around the globe—China, Pakistan, California, Europe, parts of Africa. Our job, he says, is to continue to build movements to further catalyze this change, to keep pressure on industry and government, and to enable technologies large and small: solar farms; solar rooftop systems, plug-in solar systems that can lead the energy transition and begin to heal the planet.