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.

Op-Ed

Obama’s Failing Emails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?

For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn — slightly limp reminders of the last time ‘round. Four years …

By: Bill McKibben ,; TomDispatch

October 11, 2011

News

What Comes Next for the Tar Sands Action

Dear friends— Here’s the battle plan we promised—a few hours late, because it’s been a big job wrapping up phase one of this campaign. By …

By: Bill McKibben ,; TarSandsAction

September 7, 2011

Excerpt

Making a Life on a Tough, New Planet

(Image: Times Books) The months after the initial publication of Eaarth saw some of the most intense environmental trauma the planet has ever witnessed, events that exemplified …

By: Bill McKibben ,

August 29, 2011

News Analysis

Arrested at the White House: Acting as a Living Tribute to Martin Luther King

Writer and climate activist Bill McKibben was among several dozen arrested outside the White House on August 20 at the start of more than two weeks of planned demonstrations …

By: Bill McKibben ,; TomDispatch

August 25, 2011

Op-Ed

Will North America Be the New Middle East?

The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months. Instead of charts and graphs about what will happen someday, we’ve got …

By: Bill McKibben ,; TomDispatch

July 14, 2011

A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never (Video)

By: Bill McKibben ,

June 10, 2011

Op-Ed

Obama Strikes Out on Global Warming

In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, …

By: Bill McKibben ,; TomDispatch

June 2, 2011

Bill McKibben | My Life as a Communist

My life as a communist actually began without me knowing it, on Friday evening, when Glenn Beck spent his program explaining about a “communistic” conspiracy that included 10 groups …