Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and founder of 350.org. His most recent book is Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.

Latest from Bill McKibben

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline

We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.

by: Bill McKibben,; The Nation

April 22, 2020

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused

The communities that deserve priority consideration for climate reparations are those that have suffered the most.

by: Tamara Toles O’Laughlin &; Bill McKibben,; YES! Magazine

November 19, 2019

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

Let’s Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global History

Youth from communities most impacted by sea level rise are on the front lines.

by: Bill McKibben,; Truthout

September 15, 2019

Interview

Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice

Bill McKibben interviews Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.

by: Bill McKibben,; YES! Magazine

August 27, 2017

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

A Strategy to Stop the Funding Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline

A key pipeline loan is still pending, and banks can be vulnerable to public pressure.

by: Bill McKibben,; YES! Magazine

September 27, 2016

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground

When it comes to climate change, it’s no longer one group’s preference over the other. It’s the people against physics.

by: Bill McKibben,; YES! Magazine

February 19, 2016

News Analysis

Exxon’s Never-Ending Big Dig: Flooding the Earth With Fossil Fuels

Why on God’s-not-so-green-Earth-anymore would anyone want to be Exxon’s business partner?

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

February 18, 2016

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World

Unless we ensure that the future is powered by alternative energy, we will find ourselves in the midst of a climate-change version of a zombie apocalypse.

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

January 19, 2016

Op-Ed

Why We March: Stepping Forth for a Planet in Peril

There’s a world to march for — and a future, too.

by: Eddie Bautista,; Bill McKibben &; LaTonya Crisp-Sauray,; TomDispatch

September 15, 2014

News Analysis

X-Ray of a Flagging Presidency: Will Obama Block the Keystone Pipeline or Just Keep Bending?

The Keystone XL pipeline is a pivotal issue for Obama’s administration that will gauge how many will view his political legacy.

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

October 28, 2013