Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy and advocates for more localized economies. His 2010 book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet led the Boston Globe to call him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" ... (more)and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist.” In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.

Bill McKibben is one of our most accomplished and impassioned writers on the subject of human impacts on planet Earth. Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge ... (more)that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth. That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend--think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer. ... "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." --Barbara Kingsolver

The Eno River Association has launched a reading group which meets at The Regulator for a bring-your-own bag lunch discussion the 4th Wednesday of each month. An essay or other short reading on an environmental theme is selected for discussion. This month's readings are "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship ... (more)Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding and "Spaceship Earth" by Buckminster Fuller, both from the collection American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Highfields Institute invites you to a book reading and discussion with noted environmental writer Bill McKibben on Wednesday, October 1, from 5:30 - 6:30 PM at the Hardwick Town House.
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The writer and activist discusses his new Library of America anthology. Montpelier Room. 202-707-5221. (Book World, The Washington Post)

This event is sponsored by the Progressive Forum. Bill McKibben is one of the most important writers on business and the environment. He’s author of the environmental classic, End of Nature. He created a national movement called Step it Up 2007, resulting in a day of hundreds of rallies in all fifty ... (more)states for climate stability on Nov. 3. His most recent book is Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007). For tickets and more information, visit progressiveforumhouston.org.

"Bill McKibben talks about The Bill McKibben Reader and Deep Economy. McKibben is among America’s most impassioned writers on our relationship to our environment. Now, the best of McKibben’s essays—soulful investigations of modern life—are collected in a single volume. McKibben ... (more)is the author of The End of Nature."

Sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book.