Stories by Bill McKibben
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign.
Posted on Apr 5, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
We must stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry.
Posted on Feb 9, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
Telling the truth about climate change would require pulling away the biggest punchbowl in history. That's why the fight is so pitched.
Posted on Feb 7, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
Here are the facts: The business models at the center of our economy are in the deepest possible conflict with physics and chemistry.
Posted on Jan 5, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
2011's successful protests show how hope can change the system.
Posted on Nov 16, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
Romney not only flip-flopped to the side of climate denial, but did so less than six months after he had said no less definitively that the world's getting warmer.
Posted on Nov 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The American people spoke loudly about climate change and the president responded.
Posted on Aug 31, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Now that there is no real chance of political action in the next year or two, a real opportunity exists to build a powerful, angry movement, in the USA and around the world.
Posted on Aug 25, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
After being arrested protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, activist Bill McKibben shares what he learned.
Posted on Jul 27, 2011, Source: Huffington Post
If you sweated through last week's record heat, if you watched the Mississippi swallow your town -- then Tim DeChristopher acted for you.
Posted on Jul 14, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
Unless we can convince Obama to say no to the tar sands pipeline, we're going to be igniting a massive carbon bomb.
Posted on Jun 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
It seems that Obama thinks global warming is a second-tier problem -- let's change his mind.
Posted on Jun 2, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
It's time for Obama to say no to the fossil fuel wish list.
Posted on Apr 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Praying for rain will be little help while Texas politicians work to deny global warming and prevent the changes that might actually deal with their troubles.
Posted on Apr 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
"We will never have as much money as the oil companies, so we need a different currency to work in. We need bodies, we need creativity, we need spirit."
Posted on Apr 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet
We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible.
Posted on Apr 4, 2011, Source: The Guardian
We are remaking the world, and quickly; we are stumbling into a new way of thinking about disaster, where neither God nor nature, but man is to blame.
Posted on Mar 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Though the Chamber claims to represent all of American business, their constituency is really that handful of huge dinosaur companies that would rather lobby than adapt.
Posted on Mar 13, 2011, Source: GreenBiz.com
The Kochs are right up there now with the great plutocrats of American history, a 21st century version of the robber barons.
Posted on Mar 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Tim DeChristopher took a brave and lonely stand; it's time to make sure that in the future bravery comes in bigger quantities.
Posted on Mar 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
After Glenn Beck calls McKibben's organization 350.org part of the "communistic" conspiracy, the writer and environmental activist does some soul searching.
Posted on Feb 22, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
Money pollution is the single biggest reason that, as the planet swelters through the warmest years in history, we have yet to take any real action as a nation on global warming.
Posted on Feb 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
For two decades now we've been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we're paying a heavy price.
Posted on Jan 20, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
If we are to somehow ward off the coming catastrophes, we have to figure out how to cooperatively own and protect the single most important feature of our planet.
Posted on Nov 23, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The battle is getting desperate, the odds long, so it's time to pull out a big tool in the fight against global warming: art.
Posted on Sep 16, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
The White House seems to have decided that solar panels on the roof would be ammo for Fox News: an association with Jimmy Carter that's the electoral equivalent of cooties.
Posted on Sep 8, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
We're going to have to build a movement much bigger than anything we've built before. That movement is our only real hope, and we need your help to plot its future.
Posted on Aug 5, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we've got. Polite suggestions won't get us anywhere.
Posted on Jun 6, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Has the President been transformed by the oil spill in the Gulf, or is he merely trying to ride out the public reaction?
Posted on May 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Can the president seize this moment to move boldly on the biggest question facing the world: our endless addiction to fossil fuel.
Posted on Apr 27, 2010, Source: Henry Holt
Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked our climate, and made us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors -- that has to change.
Posted on Feb 27, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
As the backlash against climate science grows, the number of Americans who believe humans are to blame for warming the planet is shrinking.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tim DeChristopher is facing 10 years in jail for a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and our future. It's time to show our solidarity with him.
Posted on Dec 7, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Treating climate change as just another political problem may mean the end of civilization.
Posted on Dec 5, 2009, Source: Yale Environment 360
The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, Source: Grist.org
If you poll Americans this time of year, far more regard the approaching holidays with dread than anticipation. How can we make Christmas worthwhile again?
Posted on Oct 24, 2009, Source: Yes! Magazine and TruthDig
Bill McKibben believes we must reduce our carbon emissions immediately, or else face disaster. Chris Hedges says that until we defeat corporate power, we can't address anything.
Posted on Oct 17, 2009, Source: Mother Jones
The political method has not worked so well. In fact it's lurching toward something between abject and embarrassing failure. Let's try something else.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009, Source: Yale Environment 360
With thousands of big names and small gathering, the first massive protest of its kind against global warming will put the heat on DC.
Posted on Jan 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
There are moments in a nation's -- and a planet's -- history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to push for its correction.
Posted on Nov 5, 2008, Source: Yale Environment 360
The bills are coming due. And not just from a failed Bush presidency, but from 200 years of burning fossil fuel.
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