Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s speech at the Environmental Media Association Awards in Hollywood. From the article: Bill McKibben, the prominent environmentalist who founded 350.org in an attempt to marshal public opinion against continued carbon dioxide emissions, provided intellectual...
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during...
This American Life Host Ira Glass tells the story of writer turned activist Bill McKibben. McKibben is trying to reinvent progressive politics when it come to climate change. He’s attempting to create a divestment campaign modeled after the successful...
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What magic, or monster, lurks behind the light switch and the gas pump? Where does the seemingly limitless energy that fuels modern society come from? From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop removal coal mining, and natural gas “fracking” to...
Despite increasingly worrying scientific evidence, worsening extreme weather disasters, and years of advocacy by the major environmental groups, political leaders in the United States have not acted seriously on climate change. Because efforts to push climate change action through...
Bill McKibben David Fridley David Hughes Gloria Flora Richard Heinberg
What magic, or monster, lurks behind the light switch and the gas pump? Where does the seemingly limitless energy that fuels modern society come from? From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop removal coal mining, and natural gas “fracking” to...
Credit: KERA – Think | Download How is our accelerating use of the planet’s resources permanently altering the environment? Kris Boyd talks with acclaimed environmental writer Bill McKibben, editor of “The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change” (Penguin,...
Credit: VPR | Download 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...