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Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including The End of Nature (1989), the first book for a general audience on climate change, and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010). He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. He is a frequent contributor to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.
A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, Bill holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben is interviewed by Frank Sesno. 350.org's Bill McKibben thinks government can be the answer after all. Riding off his recent 10/10/10 event, McKibben argues that governments can affect incremental change on the climate debate by publicly adopting small-scale climate solutions.
When the news broke last week that President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico, many Vermont environmentalists cheered.
Among those were author and environmentalist Bill McKibben. His group 350.org has been speaking out against the pipeline, and McKibben even got himself arrested last fall while protesting the project in the nation's capitol.
McKibben says the pipeline poses dangers to the region in Canada where the oil is extracted, and to the environmentally sensitive areas the pipeline would pass through. And McKibben says the nature of the tar sand oil as opposed to regular crude poses unique problems.
Dear Friends, The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that we’ve been fighting for months has been effectively killed. The President didn’t outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline permit, but a few minutes ago he … >>
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How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was profiled as The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline in the Boston Globe Magazine. From the article: McKibben is a prolific writer, and his many books, essays, and editorials have … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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