Stories by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is the author of 10 books, most recently Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
If we want to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, we've got to cut CO2 emissions.
Posted on May 12, 2008
Either we build real community -- with mass transit and local food -- or we will go down clinging to the wreckage of our privatized society.
Posted on Mar 15, 2008
It has long since become too busy, too expensive, too centered around acquiring that which we do not need.
Posted on Dec 4, 2007
Wasted heat, one of the country's largest potential sources of power, is pouring out of smokestacks every day.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
Three presidential candidates just got on board with the Step It Up campaign.
Posted on Oct 23, 2007
A review of controversial books on climate change and the environmental movement by Bjørn Lomborg and Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger.
Posted on Oct 8, 2007
If you want to know where your congressperson stands on climate change, invite him/her to the Step It Up rally.
Posted on Oct 5, 2007
Gather your neighbors and ask politicians to join Step It Up 2 and explain their stance on climate change.
Posted on Sep 27, 2007
Circle Nov. 3, 2007, on your calendar: It's the next big date in the fight to get America to finally do something about climate change.
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
It's official: Step It Up was a raging success, with 1,400 climate events around the U.S.
Posted on Apr 15, 2007
On April 14, in the largest-ever demonstration against climate change, people around the country will call for the United States to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent. So invite your friends and join the party.
Posted on Apr 12, 2007
America is faced with a crucial choice about our future. We can choose positive action this weekend by joining the biggest rally to fight climate change.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007
The Supreme Court's decision this week that global warming is a problem the EPA can't ignore any longer should be an incentive for the rest of us to keep up the political pressure.
Posted on Apr 4, 2007
Where does a new consensus come from? How does the zeitgeist suddenly start to shift?
Posted on Mar 26, 2007
The formula of human well-being used to be simple: Make money, get happy. So why is the old axiom suddenly turning on us?
Posted on Mar 22, 2007
How climate activists can put aside "business as usual" to win the race against time.
Posted on Mar 15, 2007
Two of America's leading environmental writers join the protest movement against climate change.
Posted on Mar 6, 2007
Understanding the power of the Internet for progressive organizing.
Posted on Feb 27, 2007
People in the Midwest are learning that ethanol will not be enough to fight global warming.
Posted on Feb 22, 2007
Musicians and artists add their voices to the fight against climate change.
Posted on Feb 12, 2007
Introducing a brand-new, mass-protest climate movement for 2007.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007
Americans start rallying around the idea of April 2007 climate demonstrations.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007
As climate concern spreads, the Step It Up campaign is ready to seize the moment.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007
Bush still isn't stepping up on climate, so we're going to do it ourselves.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007
You know climate concern has gone mainstream when sororities get on board.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007
A review of author Jacques Leslie's new book, which lays bare the high environmental and social price that people in the developing world often pay for damming their rivers.
Posted on Dec 8, 2006
Several new books explore technological innovations and the need for radical lifestyle overhaul in the race against time to save the planet.
Posted on Nov 4, 2006
Evangelical Christians are increasingly part of the movement to protect God's green Earth.
Posted on Oct 4, 2006
Communities will -- hopefully -- stabilize after decreasing their dependence on the overstretched, oil-dependent supply lines that mark our globalized economy.
Posted on Nov 8, 2005
It's time for the denial to end, but Washington is governed by a bipartisan consensus that somehow the laws of physics and chemistry don’t apply to us.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005
Why a new approach to global warming would make for a better politics -- and planet.
Posted on Sep 23, 2005
What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art.
Posted on Apr 25, 2005
Dispatch No. 3 from a climate-change conference: No one knows what's going to work next, but it's clear that 'more of the same' is not a very wise strategy.
Posted on Jan 27, 2005
Dispatch No. 2 from a climate-change conference: The battle of values has been won, at least for the moment, and not by us.
Posted on Jan 26, 2005
Dispatch #1 from a climate-change conference: Why has the United States lagged behind the rest of the planet when it comes to global warming, and how we might catch up?
Posted on Jan 26, 2005
What can you do about our deadly dependence on foreign energy, our ever-rising utility bills, and the flood of carbon into the atmosphere? Buy 50 feet of clothesline.
Posted on Jul 17, 2004
In 'The Day After Tomorrow,' Hollywood gives climate change the 'Independence Day' treatment; will this disaster-in-a-day version give everyone the wrong idea?
Posted on May 6, 2004
Modern environmentalism can fairly be described as an American invention; yet American environmentalists no longer play a leading role of any kind in the world.
Posted on Apr 5, 2004
Despite mountains of evidence, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without a global warming policy. McCain's about-face sheds some light on a GOP loathe to admit that there is a problem.
Posted on Apr 1, 2004
