Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, is the author most recently of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont and one of the Sojourners contributing editors.
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Video: Bill McKibben on The Colbert Report
08-21-2009
Earlier this week, environmental activist (and Sojourners columnist<
The Price of Victory
07-01-2009
Winning can be nearly as hard as losing. Everything changed for the American environmental movement with Barack Obama’s victory.
The Leadership Gap on Global Warming
09-19-2007
Here's the word from the physical world: On Sept. 10, scientists studying satellite images of the Arctic reported that sea ice covered 4.32 million square kilometers of the north. The old record, set two years before: 5.34 million square kilometers. Mark Serreze, an Arctic specialist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Colorado University in Denver, said, "It's amazing. It's simply [...]
Stepping It Up to Save the Earth
07-01-2007
The fight against global warming will require a movement full of fire and prayer. That movement has begun...
Sins of Emission
03-01-2004
No politician seriously believes that Americans are willing to deal with global warming. Is it too late to prove them wrong?
It's the Environment, Stupid
09-01-2002
How could anyone have gotten so out of touch with physical reality?