Bill McKibben - Founder, 350.org

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Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.

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Editorials and Op-Eds

Aug 18, 2010, Bill McKibben, The Guardian, "Why has extreme weather failed to heat up the climate debate?"
Aug 4, 2010, Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com, "We're hot as hell and we're not going to take it any more."
Aug 4, 2010, Bill McKibben, LA Times, "It's time to talk, and act, tough."
Feb 24, 2010, Bill McKibben, LA Times, "The O.J. tactic."
October 19, 2009, Bill McKibben and Chip Giller, Grist, "Day of Climate Action Shows Power of Web Organizing"
September 9, 2009, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. & Bill McKibben, The Nation, “People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down”
Nov. 6, 2008, Bill McKibben, The Guardian, "Welcome to Reality, Mr. President Elect"
June 23, 2008 Bill McKibben, Washington Post "End of the Open Road"
May 11, 2008, Bill McKibben, LA Times, "Civilization's Last Chance"

Interviews

Aug 17, 2010, Triple Pundit Talks to Bill McKibben

Aug 5, 2010, Speaking of Faith: Bill McKibben, the Moral Math of Climate Change

June 7, 2010, NPR: Environmentalists to Obama 'Seize the Moment,' an interview with Bill McKibben

May 26, 2010, PRI: The Take Away, Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Just a Reminder, an interview with Bill McKibben

May 17, 2010, Charlie Rose: Bill McKibben

Apr 30, 2010, Bill McKibben on NPR's On Point

Apr 15, 2010, Bill McKibben on Democracy Now

Apr 13, 2010, Bill McKibben on MarketPlace

Aug 17, 2009, Bill McKibben on the Colbert Report

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Bill McKibben's Biography

Bill McKibben, a well known environmental author and activist, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate change campaign. 350.org is named for the safe level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 350 parts per million.

When he's not busy organizing, Bill is an active writer on the climate crisis and other environmental issues. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warming. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. He has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He is currently a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College and lives in Ripton, Vermont with his wife, author Sue Halpern, and daughter Sophie.

For more information, please visit: www.billmckibben.com

Bill's been leading the fight against global warming for 20 years, since he wrote the first book for a general audience on the subject, The End of Nature in 1989. But, let's face it, taking on the climate crisis is going to take more than a few good books: it's going to take a movement.