Bill McKibben
William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of ... More »
College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists : NPR
Bill McKibben, who founded 350.org, argues that hitting the companies in their stocks is what's necessary to get the corporations and the government to start taking climate change seriously. And in the meantime, he says, the student activists are changing the minds of their peers. ... Read more »
Nebraska Keystone pipeline fighter: 'I wouldn't take $5-million'
Then he starts talking about the time he was arrested at the White House and sat in the back of a police van with 350.org founder Bill McKibben and Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune, two of the lions of the clean energy movement. Mr. Tarnick’s eyes widen at the memory. A broad ... Read more »
Oxford students and alumni to protest over Shell Earth sciences funding
It mirrors a similar movement in the US, championed by environmental campaigner Bill McKibben and 350.org, which is running on over 300 college campuses. Four US colleges, smaller universities with strong environmental programmes, divested since the campaign got underway last autumn. A ... Read more »
Quid Pro Quo on Keystone approval? Not likely. : TreeHugger
Thomas Friedman, for example, wrote that Bill McKibben and 350.org activists should "go crazy" if it is approved. Vice President Joe Biden let it be known he opposes the pipeline, but is in the minority in the administration, suggesting he's putting himself in the right light to divert ... Read more »
NPR Coos Over 'Creating Passionate Environmentalists' To Pressure Colleges to Dump Coal Stocks
... NPR’s chasing after Rolling Stone and The Nation magazine in promoting the fight to stop "climate change" from baking Earth: SHOGREN: Kirkland and about a dozen other students at Brown got the idea for their campaign in September from a Rolling Stone article by climate activist Bill McKibben... Read more »
We Just Passed the Climate's "Grim Milestone"
"Somehow in the last 50 ppm we melted the Arctic," said environmentalist and founder of activist group 350.org Bill McKibben, who called today's news a "grim but predictable milestone" and has long used the symbolic number as a rallying call for climate action. "We'll see what happens in ... Read more »
"Poll shows many Democrats and Republicans don't like Justin Bieber" // Current TV
” coolplanet commented on CO2 Levels Hit 400 PPM - Highest In 4... — 21 hours ago “Somehow in the last 50 ppm we melted the Arctic,” said environmentalist and founder of activist group 350.org Bill McKibben, who called today’s news a “grim but... ” ... Read more »
Carbon Dioxide Hits Record Mark: 400 PPM
Bill McKibben, Co-Founder, 350.org : "We're in new territory for human beings--it's been millions of years since there's been this much carbon in the atmosphere. The only question now is whether the relentless rise in carbon can be matched by a relentless rise in the activism necessary ... Read more »
Bill McKibben Mistaken on German Solar Energy
Bill McKibben is someone who regularly inveighs us to “ do the math ” on climate change. There are however two sides to this equation: where emissions come from and what they do. Unfortunately McKibben too often makes statements about energy that betray an unwillingness to do the math on ... Read more »
Some natural gas posts worth reading
But that’s not stopping misguided greens like Bill McKibben from bemoaning the news. McKibben took this opportunity to stress the need to transition away from fossil-fuels altogether, rather than appreciating the fact that we’re extracting one of the cleanest fossil-fuels more ... Read more »
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Tom Nelson: Links
[English major Chris Mooney] A few months back on this show, we heard from Bill McKibben, the celebrated environmental writer and, more recently, leader of a mass movement around preventing climate change that has focused on blocking the Keystone XL pipeline. McKibben makes a ... Read more »
Blue Mass Group
Bill McKibben & others have rightly labeled this the “ Carbon Bubble .” For as long as we invest in fossil fuels and ignore the science of climate, we will enable the bubble to grow. It will pop and when it does, the pain it produces is entirely dependent on how fast we act. Perhaps the ... Read more »
New Targets of College Divestment Movements: Oil, Gas & Coal
Journalist and activist Bill McKibben and his environmentally-minded group 350.org are promoting a “ Fossil Free Divestment Movement ” to encourage American universities to withdraw their stock holdings from the top 200 coal, oil and gas companies. The group first gained notoriety when ... Read more »
Climate Hawks Should Aggressively Support the America COMPETES Act
Within the climate advocacy community there are those that argue for aggressive clean energy innovation policy (such as myself) and those that argue for aggressive deployment of existing clean energy technologies (such as Center for American Progress’s Joe Romm and 350.org’s Bill ... Read more »
Insights from Brené Brown, Cal Newport, Gretchen Rubin & more at the 2013 99U Conference
Environmental writer Bill McKibben started out his writing career with his college newspaper where he wasn’t immediately a great writer. But McKibben was tenacious and had a legendary work ethic. Over the years, he built up his writing skills and then applied it to a passion he ... Read more »
Op-Ed: Allan Stellar
And lately the great environmental writer turned activist, Bill McKibben, has been on a divestment kick, thinking that getting civil servants to not invest their pension funds in Exxon or Chevron is going to make the miraculous change to a society that no longer burns carbon. Good luck ... Read more »
Thomas Jones reviews ‘The Carbon Crunch’ by Dieter Helm, ‘Earthmasters’ by Clive Hamilton and ‘The C...
Other commentators (Bill McKibben is one) are less sanguine. And it is convenient, not to say suspicious, that Helm should be pushing gas as a solution to climate change, however ‘transitionary’, just as, in Barack Obama’s words, ‘we’re producing more natural gas than ever before.’ Helm ... Read more »
Commentary: Environmentalists are hurting the US economy
In the Los Angeles Times, climate activist Bill McKibben wrote: Those exports cant really take off, however, unless West Coast ports dramatically expand their deepwater loading capacity. Environmentalists are trying desperately to block the port expansion. PRB coal is being shipped to ... Read more »
The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels
I suggest to the interested reader the works of more qualified practitioners including Dr. James Hansen, Lester Brown and Bill McKibben. 2. Fossil fuel assets present abandonment risk. Fossil fuels companies are now confronted by the risk that many of the still-in-the-ground assets they ... Read more »
'Summer Heat': Our Bodies vs Industry's Money Says Climate Movement
Calling their seasonal campaign " Summer Heat ," a letter sent to 350.org supporters on Tuesday night by movement leaders Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Winona LaDuke, Sandra Steingraber, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood staked out a call for a movement whose moment has arrived for an important ... Read more »
