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Bill McKibben: Being green wont solve the problem
2013-09-15 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: A self-described average 51-year-old book author with a receding hairline turned unlikely and somewhat reluctant activist, Bill McKibben these days is something of a rock star. McKibben first stepped into the climate scene with "The End of Nature," his first book and one of the first to bring climate change to the publics attention. More recently, he founded 350.org, an international activist organization. In the course of 25 years, hes gone from writing for the New Yorker to being a major...
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Is Bill McKibben making the climate fight harder?
2013-08-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: On a cold March afternoon in 2007, Bill McKibben made an important strategic declaration about his growing campaign to fight global warming. "It's important now to get everyone in the choir to sing at the top of their lungs," the environmental author and activist told a packed auditorium at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College. After describing the imminent dangers of climate change, and the urgent need for a mass social movement capable of averting them, McKibben had been accused by an audience...
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09.24: Bill McKibben
2013-08-13 23:35:39| Powells Books Events Calendar
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in 30 years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joined forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry. Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (Times Books) is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight — from the center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers. With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels. This event is sponsored by the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. Please note: Tickets for this event are available at two price levels: $36, which includes admission and a copy of Oil and Honey, and $20, for admission only. Tickets are available at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office, all TicketsWest outlets, online at PCPA.com, or by phone at 800.273.1530. Books will be distributed at the event.
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US environmentalist McKibben wins Sophie Prize
2013-05-28 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award committee commended McKibben for ''building a global, social movement, fighting to preserve a sustainable planet.'' McKibben, born in 1960, has written widely about the impact of global warming. In 2008, he founded 350.org, an international movement aimed at solving the climate crisis with representatives in some 190 countries. The annual Sophie...
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McKibben: Fight against climate change only just beginning
2013-03-24 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Burlington Free Press: Ripton environmentalist Bill McKibben delivered the keynote address at the March 16 Global Warming Conference in Montpelier. Excerpts: Last summer was very scary. By the time the summer was over, the Arctic had, in essence, melted. Eighty percent of the ice that was there 40 years ago is gone. Weve taken one of the largest physical features on Earth, and weve broken it. And thats not a good sign, when you start breaking your major physical features. Thats the pace at which things are happening....
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