The Common Good

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and founder of 350.org, is initiator of Tar Sands Action.

Blog Posts by Bill McKibben

Posted by Bill McKibben 49 weeks 6 days ago
Please don’t sweat the 2,132 new high temperature marks in June — remember, climate change is a hoax.The first to figure this out was Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who in fact called it “the...
Posted by Bill McKibben 1 year 29 weeks ago
I was also struck by their refusal to simply announce a set of demands. Occupiers aren’t dumb—they’ve read and heard the many calls from the media and politicians that they simply say what they want...
Posted by Bill McKibben 1 year 29 weeks ago
One of the highlights of the fall for me was undertaking a kind of Occupy Tourism. I was spending most of my time on the move, working to build the broad coalition that eventually won at least a...
Posted by Bill McKibben 1 year 50 weeks ago
Posted by Bill McKibben 2 years 12 hours ago

Articles by Bill McKibben

No one wants to spend summer vacation in the clink, but that's where a lot us are going to find ourselves.

We can see in our mind's eye all the generations to come, and so we know why we fight.

Who speaks for God? Must be this guy...

Superstorm Sandy left behind an indelible image of the future.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel industry or a healthy planet, but you can't have both.