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Bill McKibben: Popes Arrival Brings Minor Miracles on the Climate Front
2015-09-23 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Im not a Catholic, but credit where credit is due: at the very least Tuesdays arrival in America of the peoples Pope coincided with a small brace of minor miracles on the climate front. Early on Tuesday morning, Divest-Invest announced at press conference in New York that the new total of assets in endowments and portfolios divesting from fossil fuels has topped $2.6 trillion. Thats a 50-fold increase on last years numberand the year before that, we had precisely one college on board, with...
Bill McKibben: Picturing End of Fossil Fuels
2015-08-24 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: When they say a picture is worth a thousand words, writers rebel (or they write 1,500 words). I mean, pictures are great, but they cant get across complicated concepts. Except when they can. Which would be the summer of 2015, on two separate occasions. Early in the summer, on the West Coast of the U.S., kayaktivists in Seattle Harbor surrounded Shell Oils giant Polar Pioneer drilling rig, trying to keep it from getting out of the harbor. They didnt succeed in that, of course--the Coast Guard...
Bill McKibben: People, not Exxon, own sky
2014-10-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Last week in New York, climate change took center stage. More than a hundred heads of state gathered to discuss the issue at a United Nations summit-and demonstrators filled the streets of Manhattan in what has been dubbed "the largest climate march in history." The next step for climate negotiators is a meeting in Lima, Peru, later this year, followed by another in Paris in December 2015. There, it is hoped, diplomats will at last conclude the international agreement that has eluded them for...
350.org founder Bill McKibben receives Alternative Nobel award
2014-09-26 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Renowned US environmentalist Bill McKibben will be one of the recipients of this years Right Livelihood Awards, known as the Alternative Nobel, it has been announced. McKibben is the founder of the campaign group 350.org, which is lobbying around the world to build an international movement to stop climate change. The author and journalist is widely credited with popularising fossil fuel divestment, after communicating the concept in his 2012 Rolling Stone article Global Warmings Terrifying...
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Climate Activist Bill McKibben Wins Right Livelihood Award
2014-09-24 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Bill McKibben, founder of the international climate action group 350.org, will be one of five recipients of this year`s Right Livelihood Awards, when they are presented at the Swedish Parliament in early December, the Stockholm foundation that created the awards announced today. The 2014 Awards honor courageous and effective work for human rights, freedom of the press, civil liberties and combating climate change, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation said. American surveillance whistleblower...